1887

Dated items

• 4 August 1887: First ten games of the Casey v Lawlor international match, Grattan Street racquet court, Cork: Lawlor won six, Casey four (eight played on 4 Aug, interrupted by a gallery panic) Source: The Sun (New York), 5 August 1887, p. 3, p. 3
• 23 November 1887: 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, p. 3
• 27 November 1887: The Sun describes a 'regulation' handball court (c.40 ft high, 50-60 ft long, c.30 ft wide; a line across the court 25 ft from the front wall with 3-ft semicircles) and says handball 'has its own code of rules' Source: The Sun (New York), 27 November 1887, p. 11, p. 11
• 29 November 1887: Casey beat Lawlor in the first seven of the eleven New York games, winning the international match and the 'championship of the world', at the Brooklyn Handball Club court, Degraw Street Source: The Sun (New York), 30 November 1887, p. 3, p. 3