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India ‘Quadrangular Cricket. Season 1916’. Two rare official programmes/ scorecards for two of the three matches played in the 1916/17 tournament at the Bombay Gymkhana Ground. The programmes each comprise eight pages with printed titles to fronts, with rhymes, articles, advertising etc. One for the match Presidency [Europeans] vs. Hindus, 7th- 9th Septembers 1916 ‘Third Day Scorecard’ with near complete scores to centre pages. According to cricketarchive.com, Hindus batted first (not as shown on scorecard), reaching 155, the Europeans replying with 112, only Frank Tarrant (Victoria, Middlesex, Europeans & Patiala 1898-1937) reaching double figures, making 68no. Hindus then made 153 in their second innings and the scorecard shows the Europeans at 20/1. They went on to reach 197/4, Tarrant scoring 80, John Greig (Europeans & Hampshire 1893-1922) 55no, to win by six wickets. Tarrant took eleven wickets in the match, and Harry Simms (Sussex, Europeans & Warwickshire 1905-1922) nine. The other ‘First Day Scorecard’ is for the final, Presidency [Europeans] vs. Parsis [Parsees], 11th- 13th September 1916, with the teams listed to centre pages for the start of the match, which was drawn, Parsees scoring 225 (Tarrant 9/99) and 22/3, Europeans 84. Both programmes with adhesive marks to rear page where previously laid down, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition.
The ‘Bombay Tournament’ was an annual cricket competition that ran from 1892 to 1946 originally comprising teams made up of the European members of the Bombay Gymkhana and a team of Parsees, later augmented with teams of Hindus (tournament renamed the ‘Bombay Triangular’), Muslims (‘Bombay Quadrangular’) and The Rest (‘Bombay Pentangular’).

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