Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 1045
Estimate: £60/90
Oxford and Cambridge Universities 1907-1938. Seventeen original scorecards for ‘home’ matches played at The Parks, Oxford, and Fenner’s, Cambridge, all with incomplete and/ or handwritten scores. Cambridge University matches are v Yorkshire 1907 (ex J.R. Mason collection), v Free Foresters 1921 (Percy Chapman 138). Oxford University matches are ‘C.H. Knott’s Side v T.B. Raike’s Side’ (Freshmen’s Match) 1924, v Middlesex 1925, v Leicestershire 1933, 1936, 1938, v Oxfordshire 1935, v Gloucestershire 1936, v Yorkshire 1936, 1938, v Lancashire 1936, v Worcestershire 1936, v Free Foresters 1936, v Minor Counties 1936, ‘R.E. Whetherley’s Side v B.L. Cumming’s Side’ (Senior Trials) 1938, and v Glamorgan 1938. Six 1936 Oxford scorecards originally from the N.S. Mitchell-Innes collection. Other notable players featured include E.R.T. Holmes, E.D.R. Eagar etc. Odd minor faults and folds to some scorecards, otherwise in good condition.