Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia including the David Frith Collection- 2 Day Auction (#8) 18/03/2023 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 18/03/2023 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 131-140 of 1571. Previous|1...121314151617...158|Next Lot #131 Ian Peebles. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1928-1948. Haig National Village Championship. Twelve page handwritten article by Peebles for ‘The Cricketer’, undated but written in 1972, the inaugural year of the competition organised by The Cricketer. Peebles reports on the first Final, played at Lord’s, 9th September 1972, between Troon (Ayrshire) and Astwood Bank (Worcestershire), which Troon won by seven wickets. Peebles bemoans ‘unwelcoming’ weather, and the problems encountered caused View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #132 Bryan Douglas ‘Bomber’ Wells. Gloucestershire & Nottinghamshire 1951-1965. ‘Things ain’t what they used to be’. Two page typed article by Wells with alterations in ink. Signed to the second page by Wells. Undated, but written for ‘Nov or Oct Cricketer’ 1972. Wells contemplates the current state of the game, believing it lacks ‘class players worth seeing’, and the necessary ‘forcible injection’ of one day cricket ‘to make the game and players come to life’, but that ‘Instant cricket, like instant View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #133 John Woodcock, cricket writer and journalist. ‘Third Test Match at Edgbaston’. Seven page handwritten article by Woodcock for the September 1970 issue of The Cricketer, reporting on the third ‘Test’, England v Rest of the World’, 16th- 21st July 1970. Rest of the World had secured victory by five wickets after England had conceded a first innings lead of 269, and suffered ‘two bad accidents’ in their second, the running out of Fletcher, and Cowdrey mistiming a long hop on a slow wicket. He comme View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #134 Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer. Trinidad & West Indies 1938-1957. Four page typed article by Stollmeyer, ‘The LBW Law of the Future’, dated 28th March 1970 and written for ‘Tony Cozier’s new magazine’, and accompanied by a two page typed letter dated 20th May 1970 to Jim Swanton, asking him to read and comment on the article. Stollmeyer writes at a time of escalating ‘turmoil’ in Trinidad and Tobago with a State of Emergency having been declared. In the article Stollmeyer presents his arguments for a View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #135 ‘Kapil Dev. Test Programme by David Hookes’. Five page original handwritten manuscript of an article written in 1985 by David Hookes on Kapil Dev for a Test match programme for the 1985/86 India tour to Australia. Hookes opens with the statement, ‘Kapil Dev, still only 26, ranks alongside contemporary superstars Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee and Malcolm Marshall as one of the world’s leading allrounders’. Signed ‘David Hookes’. Ex Irving Rosenwater collection. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #136 Allan Robert Border. New South Wales, Queensland, Essex and Australia 1976-1996. Nine page handwritten article by Border with handwritten covering letter to ‘Dear Ock’ (agent/ publisher?), dated 23rd April 1986, written in Chelmsford. Border is enclosing ‘some writings that may be good for the book’.The first page of the article lists famous people Border has met including Princess Diana, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Queen Elizabeth, Des O’Connor, Peter O’Toole etc., which he has crossed out and the View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #137 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘E.W.S. at Lord’s’. Three page handwritten article for ‘The Cricketer’. The article is undated, but was written shortly after Australia’s victory by four wickets over M.C.C. at Lord’s on the 1972 tour to England, ‘For the second time in a week the Australians have won against a declaration, this victory over M.C.C. being less spectacular but naturally more significant than that over Hampshire’. Following their victory, Swanton states ‘the Australians must have left Lord’s mig View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #138 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘E.W.S. at Hove’. Three page handwritten article for ‘The Cricketer’. In the undated article Swanton is reporting on the close of the drawn County Championship match at Hove, Sussex v Yorkshire, 15th- 18th May 1971. He describes John Hampshire’s innings for Yorkshire of 183no as being ‘full of honour’, and the ‘persevering’ medium-pace bowling of Tony Greig. He then carries out an analysis of why the match did not produce a result with Yorkshire unable to bowl out Sussex chea View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #139 J.L. Manning. Sports correspondent for the Daily Mail. Mexico World Cup 1970. Five page typescript with annotations and alterations in Manning’s own hand, written for ‘The Cricketer’ magazine. Manning is writing having just seen Brazil beat Italy to win the Jules Rimet trophy for the third time. He opens by justifying writing on the subject of football in a cricket magazine with a reference to C.B. Fry, ‘Two days after replaying the F.A. Cup Final of 1902 for Southampton against Sheffield United View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #140 R.L. Arrowsmith. Obituaries for ‘The Cricketer’ magazine 1971. Six single page (one two page) handwritten obituary notices handwritten on notepaper by Arrowsmith in 1971. Subjects are John Angus ‘Jack’ Dunning 1971 (New Zealand 4 Tests 1933-1937), member of the Australian Board of Control, William John ‘Bill’ Fairservice 1971 (Kent 1902-1921), Denys Vivian Hill 1971 (Worcestershire 1922-1929), Lord Astor of Hever 1971, President of M.C.C. in 1937, Alan Lake Hilder (Kent 1924-1930), and Charlie W View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...121314151617...158|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next
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