This picture of the Royal Thomian teams that played in the 1909 encounter, 100 years ago is a re-production of a well preserved photograph of the same vintage in the hands of two young Thomian great grandsons of the Thomian captain of that year.
Royal under the captaincy of J. N. Arunachalam won the match, leaving the Thomian captain to be satisfied with his match winning batting performance in a previous ‘Battle of the Blues’ for which he was awarded a cup by the old boys for an "excellent innings."
Those in the picture are (L-R Standing): Warden W. A. Stone, H. E. De Silva, T. Wambeck, W. Bartholomeusz, L. Bulankulame, P. De Silva, A. E. Christoffelsz, H. Daniels, S. Jackson, W. Leembruggen, E. Seneviratne, H. Samarasekera and L. Lewis Walker. (Seated): E. Samarasinghe, F. B. Smeaton, J. M. Arunachalam, (Capt. RC) A. Tennekoon (Capt. STC), V. R. Gunasekara, E. Wanduragala and seated on ground, T. Collinson, C. W. Van Geyzel, A. Goonawardena, C. David and H. C. Gunasekara.