Unique hand written record of the receipts and expenditure of Oxford University Lacrosse Club.

 

The book is a hardback with the name of the Club and the year 1921 in gilt lettering to the front board

 

Measures 250mm by 195mm.

 

Leather spine and corners.

 

 

Covers the years 1920 to 1958. There are no records between 1939 and 1949. Presumably the Club was not operating at this time due to the War.

 

At the front is a list of names of Junior Treasurers, a number of whom are from overseas (Australia, Canada, USA). There is a different Junior Treasurer each year so the handwriting varies throughout the book.

 

There are 90 double pages of entries. Each double page is numbered.

Receipts include the names and colleges of people who paid subscriptions.

 

Expenses include such things as:

•    Stationary

•    Newspapers

•    Tickets and ticket tax.

•    Dinners, teas, drinks (usually shandies and orange).

•    Travel including motor coaches and train fares.

•    Gatemen, groundsman and a piper for the Oxford Cambridge match.

•    Advertising and posters.

•    Ground rent and care of field.

•    Balls, sticks, gloves, goal posts.

•    2 cartons of cigarettes (for tips).

•    Photographs.

•    Fuel for showers.

•    Spirits and tobacco.

•    Breakages (2 glasses).

 

CONDITION. Good original condition. Wear, scuffing and minor damage commensurate with age and many years of use. Firm binding. 2 double pages have been cut out (this would have been done at the time, presumably due to mistakes).