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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle. Brighton College v M.C.C. 1908. Original mono panoramic photograph of the M.C.C. team standing in one row wearing cricket attire on the pitch at Brighton College Ground, Brighton, for the match played 18th June 1908. The players’ names are listed in pencil to verso, and feature Arthur Conan Doyle, and other first-class cricketers including John Rawlin, Alec Hearne, Campbell Hulton, Evelyn Metcalfe, Hugh Poyntz etc. 10.5”x4”. Photographer unknown. Very good condition.
Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, played ten first-class cricket matches, all for the M.C.C. He took only one first-class wicket, no less than that of W.G. Grace, whom he dismissed having scored 110. He also played under the pseudonym of A.C. Smith for Portsmouth F.C. in the 1890s as their first goalkeeper. In this match against Brighton College (not first-class) he scored 14 runs in M.C.C.’s only innings and took five wickets in Brighton College’s second innings, M.C.C. winning by an innings and 34 runs.

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