Robert L. Ripley

Active in 1928

Roles

Editor: Editor, Spalding's Official Handball Guide Source: Robert L. Ripley (ed.), Spalding's Official Handball Guide (1923), p. 73

1928: Spalding's Official Handball Guide for 1928 combines Ripley's guide with Brokaw's 'How to Play American Hand Ball' and prints the A.A.U. four-wall and one-wall rules and the Irish rules
The 1928 guide (Spalding's Athletic Library 'Red Cover' no. 114R, 25 cents, American Sports Publishing Company, New York; copyright 1928) is edited by the cartoonist Robert L. Ripley and says on its title page that it combines the former publication 'How to Play American Handball' by James I. Brokaw; contents: national champions (p. 5), a beginner's article by the 1920s champion A. J. Schinner, how to play the hard-ball game by Mike Eagan, 'Pioneers of Play', the first national amateur tournament (1897), a history essay by Ripley, court construction, and three rule sets (A.A.U. four-wall p. 31, one-wall p. 34, Irish p. 37)
Source: Spalding's Official Handball Guide (American Sports Publishing Company, 1928)