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BILLIARDS - Walter Lindrum signed, inscribed and dedicated postcard, plus two items of Billiards matches advertising ephemera, one for a match agains

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BILLIARDS - Walter Lindrum signed, inscribed and dedicated postcard, plus two items of Billiards matches advertising ephemera, one for a match against Tom Newman dated 1931, the other an advertising card for ‘Janus’ Billiard cloth, both relating to Lindrum (3)   Walter Albert Lindrum, OBE (29th August 1898 – 30th July 1960), was an Australian professional player of English billiards who held the World Professional Billiards Championship from 1933 until his retirement in 1950. On Lindrum's second tour of England, in late 1930, Donald Bradman and other members of the touring Australian cricket team, would sometimes attend Lindrum's matches at Thurston’s Hall, London. As an indication of the esteem in which Lindrum was held, the critic Neville Cardus referred to Bradman as "the Lindrum of cricket".