A collection of sporting memorabilia relating to C.O.S. Hatton, including six various sporting caps from Cranleigh School in Surrey, a further cap for
£400 - £500
A collection of sporting memorabilia relating to C.O.S. Hatton, including six various sporting caps from Cranleigh School in Surrey, a further cap for Cambridge University Lacrosse Club, and another for an unidentified cricket club (L.H.C.C.), a red cricket club blazer, a green lawn tennis club blazer, an England cloth badge dated 1927, three Cranleigh School blazer badges, various school fixture lists and scorecards, and various ephemera relating to C.O.S. Hatton as a lawn tennis player in the 1890s (a qty.) C.O.S. Hatton typified the brilliant all-round sportsman of his age. As well as being a fine amateur footballer, he also excelled at lawn tennis, athletics, lacrosse, cricket and rugby. Hatton played in the very first F.A. Amateur Cup final, for Casuals, in 1894 as well as holding the unusual distinction of playing for both Casuals and Corinthians, the two foremost amateur footballs teams in England. He also played rugby at first XV level for Blackheath at a fairly advanced age, having switched his winter sporting attentions from the round ball. The content of this lot mostly, but not exclusively, to Hatton's sporting achievements at schoolboy level and at Cambridge University.