Handball

Brooklyn Handball Club

Club · Brooklyn, NY, US

Games: American four-wall

Officers named in the sources

Dated facts

  • 23 November 1887 (dated from the issue it appeared in): The Brooklyn Handball Club (president Phil Casey) has a new court in Degraw Street, Brooklyn: 65 ft long, 24 ft wide, front wall 35 ft high faced with white marble, back wall 12 ft, white-pine floor

    Source: The Sun (New York), 30 November 1887, p. 3

  • about March 1889 (dated from the issue it appeared in): The Brooklyn Handball Club holds a three-class tournament at its Degraw Street court, March-April 1889, with gold medals presented by the club

    three classes; gold medal to each winner

    Source: The Sun (New York), 12 March 1889, p. 6

  • 4 January 1891: Brooklyn Handball Club resolves unanimously to play all games under the Sun's new rules; Murray Hill and South Brooklyn courts already adopted them

    Murray Hill court first to adopt THE SUN's new rule as the standard; South Brooklyn court follows

    Source: The Sun (New York), 5 January 1891, p. 6

  • 1 March 1892: Brooklyn Handball Club reorganised in Casey's parlor: Major John Carmody president, Col. Thomas Meehan vice-president, Frank J. Prendergast secretary, Philip Casey treasurer; committee on the playing ball

    Carmody president (from Mar 1892)

    Source: The Sun (New York), 3 March 1892, p. 4

  • by 18 January 1894 (dated from the issue it appeared in): Phil Casey writes that there has been no rule in his court for five years except 'The Sun's rules', which govern all six courts near him; leading courts everywhere follow the Brooklyn Handball Club's rules

    no rule in Casey's court for five years except The Sun's rules; all six courts within ten miles under them

    courts of any account in America conducted under the rules of the Brooklyn Handball Club

    reprint in SF Morning Call: 'no rule in my court for five years except the New York Sun's rules'

    Source: The Sun (New York), 18 January 1894, p. 8

  • by 27 December 1896 (dated from the issue it appeared in): Brooklyn Handball Club's ball and committee rules called the standard 'wherever the game is played'

    rules formulated by the Brooklyn Handball Club's committee recognized as standard

    Source: New-York Tribune (New York), 27 December 1896, p. 21

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