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Title	Major Drapkin Sporting Celebrities
Year	1930
Size	1 1/2″ x 2 5/8″
Images	Black and White
Type	Tobacco
Number in Set	36

1930 Major Drapkin Sporting Celebrities Overview

These cards featured some of the world’s top athletes and the set was distributed by tobacco firm Major Drapkin, a part of the United Kingdom Tobacco Company.

The cards included black and white pictures of athletes on the front with their biographies on the back. The Sporting Celebrities in Action name, as well as a mention that there were 36 cards in the set.

Among the sports featured are boxing, golf, and tennis. Many of the names will be not familiar to American collectors but a few of the major stars included are boxing’s Gene Tunney and golf’s Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, as well as tennis stars Helen Wills and Rene Lacoste.

One unique twist on this set compared to other similar 1920s and 1930s sets is that this one did not include the names of athletes on the fronts.

1930 Major Drapkin Sporting Celebrities Checklist

1. W.H. Ponsford
2. W.M. Woodfull
3. Walter Hammond
4. Bobby Jones
5. Walter Hagen
6. A. Compston
7. G. Patterson
8. Helen Wills-Moody
9. Rene Lacoste
10. D’Arcy Greig
11. Bert Hinkler
12. Charles Lindbergh
13. W.W. Wakefield
14. J. Richardson
15. James McMullan
16. David Jack
17. Malcolm Campbell
18. W. O. H. Segrave
19. Tom Heeney
20. Gene Tunney
21. J. Munro
22. Gordon Richards
23. Bill Lamont
24. Sprouts Elder
25. E. Barry
26. R. Arnst
27. A.H. Orlebar
28. Willie Smith
29. E.H. Temme
30. Alan Charlton
31. Paavo Nurmi
32. D. G. A. Lowe
33. Sonja Heine
34. E. Ham
35. Lord Burghley
36. F.H. Wyld

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