James Dunne
Dated facts
- 13 December 1883: Notice, not a report: a double-handed match 'will be played' on Thursday 13 Dec 1883 at Sweeny's Murray Hill court, 159 East 35th Street, New York, Alderman Phil Casey and ex-Alderman Jim Dunn of Brooklyn against Wm. Courtney and Frank Reynolds; no report of the match has been found
Source: The Society News (Wilmington), 15 December 1883, p. 3
- by 5 April 1896 (dated from the issue it appeared in): Sun reports a handball convention planned at Cork for July 1896 to arrange uniform rules, at which 'THE SUN code used by the experts in America' would probably be adopted as the standard
planned convention at Cork, July 1896, for uniformity in the rules; the Sun code probably to be the standard