Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 811
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £160
‘The Revival of Sport in Barbados: 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 front wrapper, lacking rear, bound in green boards with title in gilt to spine. The front wrapper with wear to extremities, small loss to corners, odd page to the rear with corner loss, the last page with wear to extremities and tape repair to tear otherwise in 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