Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 114
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £70
‘Australian Test Team versus West Kent’ 1934. Official printed sheet for the ‘order of play’ for the golf match played at West Kent Golf Club on the 29th April 1934. Printed title to top of sheet and players’ names below in ‘order of play’ number. All twenty of the touring party took part including the manager Bushby. Signed to the back of the sheet by thirteen participants, mainly in pencil, including Arthur Mailey with small self portrait caricature drawn by him, Don Bradman, Fairfax, Ponsford, Ebeling, Brown, O’Reilly, Grimmett, McCabe, Barnet, Kippax etc. The sheet with worn fold marks, small hole to centre, nicks to edge of folds, some minor soiling otherwise in good condition. An unusual autographed piece of ephemera from the 1934 tour.
This golf match was played just prior to the opening tour match against Worcestershire. ‘On Sunday 29th April 1934 the Australian cricketers paid a visit to the course to play a team from the West Kent club. The winners for the Australians were L Darling and A Mailey, who respectively, beat E Borradaile by 8&7 and L W Fyson by 3&1. The best golfers of the Australian cricketers were S McCabe who halved with Francis McGloin jun., and Don Bradman. The latter was partnered by C L Leman, a club member, in a foursome and they won by a hole against C Grimmett and B S Farnfield, a West Kent member’.