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C.P. BOWEN
English Cricketers in the West Indies
Bridgetown, Barbados: Herald Office, 1895. Small 4to., 18 blue-tinted half-tone plates after photographs by S.W. Poyer, modern maroon buckram, speckled edges. PRESENTATION COPY to R.P. Lewis (signed by the author and inscribed "a memento, Barbados, 18 January 1897" on front blank).
DESCRIBES THE FIRST VISIT BY AN ENGLISH TEAM TO THE WEST INDIES, under R. Slade Lucas's captaincy in 1895. Lucas (64) and R.P. Sewell (51) made the first first-wicket century partnership in the West Indies of 105 v. Barbados at Kensington. H.R. Bromley-Davenport took a hat trick for the first time in West Indian first-class cricket v. Guyana at Bourda. In the second match v. Barbados, Barbados scored 517 runs, the first time over 500 had been made in a West Indian match. Padwick 4673.
English Cricketers in the West Indies
Bridgetown, Barbados: Herald Office, 1895. Small 4to., 18 blue-tinted half-tone plates after photographs by S.W. Poyer, modern maroon buckram, speckled edges. PRESENTATION COPY to R.P. Lewis (signed by the author and inscribed "a memento, Barbados, 18 January 1897" on front blank).
DESCRIBES THE FIRST VISIT BY AN ENGLISH TEAM TO THE WEST INDIES, under R. Slade Lucas's captaincy in 1895. Lucas (64) and R.P. Sewell (51) made the first first-wicket century partnership in the West Indies of 105 v. Barbados at Kensington. H.R. Bromley-Davenport took a hat trick for the first time in West Indian first-class cricket v. Guyana at Bourda. In the second match v. Barbados, Barbados scored 517 runs, the first time over 500 had been made in a West Indian match. Padwick 4673.
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