b'12Commonwealth & Empire Games551934 2nd BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES IN LONDON, Gold Winners Medal British Empire Games/England/1934, engraved on reverse Boxing, Middle-Weight, 1st, 50mm diameter, in original presentation case. Very attractive and scarce. Won by Alf Shawyer of England. . $2,0002,50056561938 3rd BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES IN SYDNEY, Bronze Winners Medal British Empire Games/Australia/1938, octagonal, 63 x 63mm. Very attractive and scarce. $8001,200Cricket18th & 19th Century57 5857A VERY EARLY CRICKET BROADSIDECRICKET. On MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1798, a Match of Cricket, will be played On Tunbridge-Wells Common, between Mr. R. HOSKINS and Mr. DAY, (of Mayfield) For TEN POUNDS. The Wickets to be pitched at 10Clock, and the Game played out. [Sprange, Printer, Tunbridge-Wells., 250 x 195mm, letterpress on laid paper; tipped onto a later paper backing sheet.An extremely early cricket broadside, advertising a challenge match played at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in the autumn of 1798. The game - which appears to have been a single-wicket match - took place on Tunbridge Wells Common, where cricket is known to have been played even earlier: the first recorded match there having taken place in 1782. Kent County Cricket Club used the ground between 1845 and 1880, and in 1882 a match was played there between a United Eleven, captained by W.G. Grace, and the touring Australians. $1,2001,500'