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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Albert Craig. ‘To John Briggs. The Brilliant Lancashire Cricketer’. Original broadsheet poem/ rhyme, comprising five stanzas of eight lines each, regarding the Surrey v Lancashire match on 16th- 18th August 1888, in which Briggs took seven wickets and scored 45 runs inflicting on Surrey the Champions’ only defeat of the season. ‘Take him as a fielder, take him as a bat, we don’t find him falter, you depend on that’. Craig’s printed initial’s ‘A.C.’ to corner. Advertisement for F.H. Ayres to verso. 5”x8.5”. Minor foxing, otherwise in good/ very good condition. One of the scarcer Craig rhymes.