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Hastings Cricket Week 1905. Gentlemen of the South v Players of the South, Hastings, 7 to 9th September 1905. Large autograph page very nicely signed in ink by twenty one of the players who featured in the match which was drawn. Eleven signatures of the Gentlemen of the South team which are Tom Hayward (Surrey), Alan Marshall (Surrey & Queensland), Ernest Haynes (Surrey), Ernest Killick (Sussex), Joe Vine (Sussex), Len Braund (Somerset), Albert Relf (Sussex), George Cox (Sussex), Warren Lees (Surrey), J.T. Hearne (Middlesex). The ten signatures of the Gentlemen of the South are Lord Dalmeny (Surrey), John Raphael (Surrey), Charles McGahey (Essex), Cyril Sewell (Gloucestershire), John Crawford (Surrey), Gilbert Jessop (Gloucestershire), Kenneth Goldie (Sussex), William Gilbert Grace (Gloucestershire), Charles Robson (Hampshire) and Neville Knox (Surrey). Only lacking the signature of Samuel Day (Kent). Also signed to page by the two Umpires, Frank Marlow (Sussex 1891-1904) and William West (Northamptonshire 1884-1892). Plus Henry Phillips (Sussex 1868-1891, born and died in Hastings), William Carless (Herefordshire and Hastings 1868-1878) and Albert Craig, the Surrey Rhymester. To the top right hand corner there is an ink drawing of W.G. Grace, head and shoulders wearing hooped cap, which was drawn and has been signed over by Alan Marshall (Surrey & Queensland 1903-1914), who in World War I was one of the Australian troops sent to Gallipoli, where he caught enteric fever and he died in Malta in 1915 at the age of 32. Very nice condition. A good and rare collection of early cricket signatures