F S Ashley-Cooper Scrapbook: Cricket in 1930

Reference

SCR106

Date:

1930-01-01 - 1930-12-31

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings compiled by F S Ashley-Cooper, relating to articles and reports on cricket in 1930. Includes reports on the MCC tour of New Zealand in 1929-1930, Currie Cup matches in South Africa, the MCC tour of West Indies in 1929-1930, Sheffield Shield matches in Australia, Sir Julien Cahn's XI in Argentina in 1929-1930, English domestic cricket in 1930 including County Championship, schools cricket, services cricket and MCC matches, the Cryptics tour of Portugal in 1930, the Australian tour of England in 1930, E W S Thomson's Argentine XI in England in 1930, H M Martineau's XI tour of Egypt, the MCC tour of South Africa in 1930-1931, a German cricket tour of England in 1930 [Berlin XI], Gentlemen of Worcester's tour of Denmark in 1930, the West Indies tour of Australia in 1930-1931, articles on county cricket, the death of W G Grace's wife Agnes, MCC's annual report for 1930, meetings of the Imperial Cricket Conference, wagon wheel of D G Bradman's innings of 334 for Australia vs. England at Headingley, the 50th anniversary of Test cricket at The Oval.
The scrapbook also contains two letters sent to Ashley-Cooper in August 1930 from G Henderson, on the history of German cricket and German cricket books, and a list of fixtures for the New Zealand tour to England in 1931.

Associations

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper
Imperial Cricket Conference
Donald George Bradman
Agnes Grace

Subject

MCC in New Zealand 1929-1930, Sheffield Shield, Currie Cup Tournament, MCC in West Indies 1929-1930, Cryptics in Portugal 1930, Gentlemen of Worcester in Denmark 1930, West Indies in Australia 1930-1931, New Zealand in England 1931, Sir Julien Cahn's XI in Argentina 1929-1930, E W S Thomson's Argentine XI in England 1930, H M Martineau's XI in Egypt 1930, Australia in England 1930, cricket in Germany

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 volume

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