[Card; programme] Buol Toboggan Club. Davos International Toboggan Races January 14th and 16th 1896. Time of starting 11 o'clock a.m.

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[Toboggan Race; Davos]
Publication details: 
Richter S. Printing Office, Davos, [1896].
£550.00
SKU: 13598

Card, bifolium, 4pp., 10 x 14.5, small stain in margin pf P[4], good condition P[1] Title as above; P[2] "Ladies Cup | January 14th". with list of eleven competitors with columnised "Start" "Arrive" [times] "Time", with results filled in in pencil; P[3] "Symonds Shield. | January 14th." with list of 26 competitors printed (one extra name in pencil; list including "Capt. Wynyard (holder)" [Wynyard wrote a piece on tobogganing, "the youngest of sports", in The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 16 (1903)], columns headed "Section" ['English', 'Klosters', Davos Turnverein', etc.], then "start", "Arrive" "Time" filled in in pencil [Wynyard had 4th fastest time]; P[4] "Symonds Cup January 16th.", with a list of 24 printed names [inc. H. Freeman (holder), with additional four names in pencil, columns again including "Section" and "Start" "Arrive" "Time" headings, but only pencilled information in "Time" column [Freeman fastest in 6.13. WITH: fine photograph, 23 x 17cm (stamped) 'Carl Reisch Photog. Davos', of large group of men some either sitting on toboggans or holding one upright in the foreground of a snowy valley, presumably the male competitors dressed for the conditions.