Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 597
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
‘Johnnie Walker Test Match Scoreboard at Margate’ 1930. Fourteen mono candid photographs laid to two album pages of scenes at Margate during the fifth and final Ashes Test at The Oval on 16th- 21st August 1930. The photographs include scenes of large crowds gathered to view the scoreboard installed over the entrance to St George’s Hotel. One photograph shows the scoreboard at the end of the second day’s play with Australia’s score at 215/2, Kippax on 11no and Bradman 27no, Woodfull out for 54 and Ponsford out for 110. Another photograph of the scoreboard from the fourth day of the same Test shows England’s first innings score of 405, and Australia’s 695. England are 118/3, Sutcliffe having just been dismissed for 54 with Duleepsinhji on 37no. A further photograph shows the internal workings of the scoreboard. An excellent set of photographs, each measuring approx 4”x2.5”. Very good condition.
With the series tied at 1-1, the final deciding match was won by Australia by an innings and 39 runs on the sixth day of the ‘timeless’ Test. For England, Sutcliffe scored 161 in their first innings. For Australia, Bradman scored 232 and Ponsford 110, Peebles taking six wickets for England. England were bowled out for 251 in their second innings, Hornibrook taking 7-92 for Australia to clinch victory and the series.