# The 1870s

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6 dated items, 0 rulebook editions and 0 championship result rows are in the record for the 1870s.

## Dated items

### 1872

- **19 June 1872**: Hand ball championship match for $1,000, Phil Casey and James Everett of Brooklyn v James O'Brien and William Foley of Chicago, first five games at Chicago on 19 June 1872 Source: [Chicago Tribune (Chicago), 14 June 1872, p. 6](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014064/1872-06-14/ed-1/?sp=6), p. 6

### 1873

- **1873**: The first printed code found: Ed. James's Manual of Sporting Rules (New York, 1873), pp. 76-77, 'Hand Ball Rules', 23 rules: 21 aces, a ball about two inches, an ace line 'supposed to be in the centre of the court', the foot allowed on a Source: [Ed James, Manual of sporting rules (1873)](https://archive.org/details/manualofsporting00jame), p. 76
- **1873**: A sporting publisher prints the code: Ed. James, Manual of Sporting Rules (New York, 1873), 'Hand Ball Rules', 23 rules (Hand Ball Rules (1873), H-111); reprinted by Chadwick 1884 and in Spalding's Hand Book of Sporting Rules 1886 (Hand Source: [Ed James, Manual of sporting rules (1873)](https://archive.org/details/manualofsporting00jame), p. 76

### 1874

- **3 September 1874**: 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' Source: [The New York Herald (New York), 4 September 1874, p. 5](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1874-09-04/ed-1/?sp=5), p. 5

### 1875

- **8 December 1875**: Phil Casey tells the Herald how handball is played (21 aces, ace line about 30 ft from the front wall, three failed serves count out, ball 2 1/4 in) and lists the courts of Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Troy Source: [The New York Herald (New York), 9 December 1875, p. 10](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1875-12-09/ed-1/?sp=10), p. 10

### 1876

- **22 February 1876**: 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 Source: [The New York Herald (New York), 5 March 1876, p. 6](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1876-03-05/ed-1/?sp=6), p. 6

## What the record does not hold

- The record holds nothing for the 1870s under rulebook editions: no edition dated to the decade is listed.
- The record holds nothing for the 1870s under championship results: no result row is dated to the decade.
- The record holds nothing for 1870, 1871, 1877, 1878 and 1879: no fact, edition or championship is dated to those years.

## Neighboring decades

- Previous: [The 1860s](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/1860s.md)
- Next: [The 1880s](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/1880s.md)
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