Cricket Extracts

Reference

SCR299

Date:

1877 - 1948

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume and 1 folder

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, postcards and cigarette cards. Subjects include Jack Hobbs's career, list of centuries scored by W G Grace, list of Champion Counties from 1873-1924, list of cricketers who had scored 10,000 runs and taken 1,000 wickets by the end of the 1925 season, photocopy of the scorecard from the Somerset vs. Surrey match at Taunton in August 1925, photocopy of the scorecard from the Nottinghamshire vs. Australian Eleven match at Trent Bridge in May 1878, list of centuries scored by England and Australia cricketers in 'Ashes' series between 1877 and 1925, autographs of county cricketers, articles on the England vs. Australia Test match at Lord's in 1938, article on a match between Australian Imperial Forces and Gezira Sporting Club in Egypt, published in the Egyptian Sunday Mail.

The scrapbook contains postcards of J B Hobbs, Middlesex County Cricket Club [circa 1920s], F E Woolley, A P F Chapman, Kent County Cricket Club in 1925, A P Freeman, A W Carr, P G H Fender

The scrapbook contains cigarette cards of N V H Riches, J L Bryan, C N Bruce, J R Barnes, H Strudwick, Blomley (Lancashire), W G Quaife, J C Collins, E H Hendren, J W Hearne, N E Haig.

Associations

Sir John Berry Hobbs
William Gilbert Grace
Frank Edward Woolley
Arthur Percy Francis Chapman
Alfred Percy Freeman
Arthur William Carr
Percy George Herbert Fender
Norman Vaughan Hurry Riches
John Lindsay Bryan
Clarence Napier Bruce
John Reginald Barnes
Herbert Strudwick
Benjamin Blomley
William George Quaife
John Cyril Collins
Elias Henry Hendren
John William Hearne
Nigel Esmé Haig
Middlesex County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club
Australian Imperial Forces Cricket Team
Gezira Sporting Club

Subject

cricket in Egypt, World War, 1939-1945, Australia in England 1878

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 volume and 1 folder

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