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ETON COLLEGE ATHLETICS PROGRAMME 1869 - FEATURING ARTHUR LYTTELTON AND LORD HARRIS

ETON COLLEGE ATHLETICS PROGRAMME 1869 - FEATURING ARTHUR LYTTELTON AND LORD HARRIS

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Original athletics programme for "The Races", held on November 9th & 10th 1869. Amongst the competitors was Hon. Arthur Lyttelton, who played first class cricket for the MCC in 1872, and Lord Harris, the great man of Kent cricket.

22 x 28cm. Single sheet, one-sided. Many of the results for the first day are recorded neatly in pencil. Lightly marked, but generally in very good condition.

Date
1869

£120.00 (Code: 69673)

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