McQuade's Racket and Hand Ball Court
- Address as printed
- 404 Madison Street, New York
Dated facts
- 3 September 1874 (dated from the issue it appeared in): McQuade's Racket and Hand Ball Court, 404 Madison Street, New York, where a rackets match was played; the Herald called it, as a racket court, 'the only place of the kind now in the city, and in fact the only one of any importance in the country'
McQuade's Racket and Hand Ball Court at 404 Madison Street, where a rackets match for $500 a side was played on 3 Sept 1874; the Herald, writing of the English game of rackets, called it 'the only place of the kind now in the city, and in fact the only one of any importance in the country' (a racket court)
Source: The New York Herald (New York), 4 September 1874, p. 5
- 22 February 1876 (dated from the issue it appeared in): New York handball and racket players elect a provisional committee (Metropolitan Committee) at McQuade's court to hold an international tournament and form a permanent national organization to supervise the game
chair James [Dunn], vice chair Denis Burns, treasurer P. J. Meagher, secretary Bernard McQuade; permanent national organization to be announced within a fortnight; tournament Easter Monday 17 April, later postponed to 1 June