Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books
Held on Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th September 2024
Lot 593
Estimate: £300/500
Hammer: £240
‘The Revival of Sport in the West Indies: A Complete Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th-17th February 1920’. Barbados Advocate 1920. 60pp plus advertising pages. Original pictorial wrappers, bound in red boards with title to spine. Old paper label affixed to the top corner of the front wrapper, some slight loss to the edge of the top right hand corner, odd marks otherwise in good/very good condition. Padwick 3690. A rare book
In the first match there were three Barbadian centuries in the first innings. In the second P.H. Tarilton made the first score of over 200 in a West Indies first-class match with his 304 not out for Barbados who made 623, the first total of over 600 in first-class cricket