Memorabilia relating to the career of the tennis administrator Cyril W. Banks
£400 - £500
Memorabilia relating to the career of the tennis administrator Cyril W. Banks, including an extensively autographed dinner menu for the Great Britain v Belgium Davis Cup match of 1954; a signed menu for the LTA Ball of 1954 including Patty, Brough, Connolly, Du Pont, Hart, Seixas, Hoad & Trabert, an invitation for the 1952 LTA Ball signed by Frank & Jean Sedgman; a small qty. of photographs; a Victorian cabinet card; obituary press cuttings; a group of correspondence regarding a famous but unfortunate incident in 1956 when a speech by Mr Banks at the Bradford Rotary Club was reported in the press and gave the impression that he had criticised The Queen for not attending the Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon; A. Wallis Myers' Official Jubilee Souvenir book, Fifty Years of Wimbledon; & other misc. items