Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 29
Estimate: £30/50
Illinois Cricket Association Festival 1933. Official folding fixture card for matches played from 22nd August to 4th September 1933 at grounds at Winnetka, Washington Park, Oak Park etc. Local teams, including Chicago C.C., Pakenham’s Oak Park, Illinois etc., took on the visiting teams of Winnipeg St. Georges C.C. (Canada), Cambridge University Vandals, Missouri, and Sir Julian Chan’s touring team. The card with printed fixtures and names of touring team players, also a lengthy description of the game, its laws, playing conditions and scoring methods, titled ‘A Brief Explanation of the Game of “Cricket”’ written by K.A. Auty, President of the Illinois Cricket Association. Padwick 212. Some age toning, otherwise in very good condition.
Sir Julien Cahn’s team toured North America and Bermuda in August and September 1933. Karl Andre Auty was a renowned collector and founder of the Auty Library dedicated to cricket.

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