Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 54
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: unsold
A.F. Wiren letter to Plum Warner 1940. Lengthy two page handwritten letter with good cricket content from Wiren at his home in Wellington, New Zealand, to Warner, editor of ‘The Cricketer’. Dated 14th October 1940, Wiren congratulates Warner on his article on ‘[Charles] Turner “The Terror”’ and makes numerous additional comments on Turner regarding him as a superior bowler to Giffen, referring to the ‘Red Lillywhite’ (John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual) and Davis’s three books on Australian cricket. He also discusses the selection of players, referring to W.G. Grace, Spofforth, Trumble, Garrett and Briggs, stating that Hugh Trumble told him personally that he thought Spofforth the greatest of all bowlers. He signs off ‘Yours sincerely, A.F. Wiren’. Very good condition.
Anders Ferdinand Wiren played non first-class cricket for Wellington in New Zealand, and was a member of the twenty two of Wellington that played against Arthur Shrewsbury’s XI on the 1887/88 tour.