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CYCLING FOR FUN WITH A DASH OF CRICKET FOR MAKEWEIGHT AND A PREFACE FOR MOTORISTS

CYCLING FOR FUN WITH A DASH OF CRICKET FOR MAKEWEIGHT AND A PREFACE FOR MOTORISTS

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An account of the author's cycling exploits in the early 1930s, including keeping up with the "Bodyline" cricket series in Australia while touring the English countryside. A chapter is dedicated to travelling to cricket matches at Edgbaston, Grace Road and Trent Bridge and also watching the first day of the 1934 Headingley Test. Foreword by R.E.S. Wyatt.  [Padwick 6830].

Paperback. 8vo. 52pp. Very good condition.

Date
1936
Publisher
Birmingham: John R. Hetherington
Author
"ATTABOY" John R. HETHERINGTON

£35.00 (Code: 73923)

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