The 1910s

Years with their own page

A year gets a page when the record holds at least 3 dated items for it.

• 1912 3 dated items
• 1913 4 dated items
• 1914 5 dated items
• 1915 10 dated items
• 1916 9 dated items
• 1917 3 dated items
• 1919 4 dated items

Dated items

1912

• 25 February 1912: San Francisco Call: the 'old Irish game' of handball is 'fast coming back', with Sunday games on McHugh's court, Twenty-fifth and Bryant streets, Mission district Source: The San Francisco Call (San Francisco), 25 February 1912, p. 38, p. 38
• 2 June 1912: Patrick J. Flanagan of Meriden, Conn., Gaelic athlete and state champion handball player, dies Source: Norwich Bulletin (Norwich), 3 June 1912, p. 1, p. 1
• 16 August 1912: Olympic Club, San Francisco, starts its annual doubles handball championship on 'the new courts' on 22 September, two classes Source: The San Francisco Call (San Francisco), 16 August 1912, p. 13, p. 13

1913

• 1913: The Y.M.C.A.'s revised single-wall rules name an 'Irish Ace' ball (Hand Ball Rules: Single Wall Court (1913); H-140): the Irish-made ball in an American gymnasium code. Source: Athletic League of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America, Official Handbook (1913), p. 119
• 6 May 1913: Newark Evening Star gives the A.A.U. handball diameter as 1 5-8 inches and names Michael J. Egan 'the champion' Source: Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (Newark), 6 May 1913, p. 12, p. 12
• 7 September 1913: A 'Panama-Pacific handball championship' is listed among the planned 1915 exposition championships, open to the world Source: The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City), 7 September 1913, p. 28, p. 28
• 21 December 1913: Condon and Lydon defend the Olympic Club's coast doubles handball title (Hampton trophy), San Francisco Source: The San Francisco Call and Post (San Francisco), 22 December 1913, p. 6, p. 6

1914

• 7 March 1914: Yale v. Princeton, 'the first intercollegiate handball series in recent years', announced for the Crescent A. C., Brooklyn Source: Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (Newark), 24 February 1914, p. 16, p. 16
• 15 March 1914: Newark's Owens Association beats Jersey City's Lynch Association team in a New Jersey state handball championship match Source: Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (Newark), 14 March 1914, p. 17, p. 17
• 4 April 1914: Yale's handball team plays the Whitehall Club, New York, and is beaten Source: The Evening World (New York), 2 April 1914, p. 14, p. 14
• 8 April 1914: An Intercollegiate Handball Association is planned at Yale's initiative; Princeton, Columbia and Wesleyan promise to join Source: The Richmond Virginian (Richmond), 11 April 1914, p. 6, p. 6
• 16 May 1914: G.A.A. congress instructs county committees to start a handball championship in each county (reprinted in Chicago) Source: The Chicago Citizen (Chicago), 16 May 1914, p. 1, p. 1

1915

• 1915-1916: Brokaw: a hinder is a ball that hits an opponent (Rules of American Hand Ball (1916)); the Sun's 1916 column: 'A returning ball that strikes an opposition player' (1916 newspaper notes). Source: James I. Brokaw, How to Play American Hand Ball (1915), pp. 39-43
• 1915: Brokaw's one-wall: board 20 ft wide, 10 ft high; floor 20 x 26 ft; field 55 x 40 ft (Rules of American Hand Ball (1916) R53-R55). Source: James I. Brokaw, How to Play American Hand Ball (1915), pp. 39-43
• 6 April 1915: James Dunne, 'amateur champion of the world at handball' by the Tribune's obituary and founder of the Brooklyn Handball Club, dies in Brooklyn aged 73 Source: New-York Tribune (New York), 7 April 1915, p. 9, p. 9
• by 26 April 1915: Outdoor single-wall handball tournament match with gloves, Van Kelton Field next to the West Side Y.M.C.A., New York: Staddleberger beat Verstraten Source: The Evening World (New York), 26 April 1915, p. 12, p. 12
• May 1915: The Y.M.C.A.'s four-wall court, adopted at Asilomar in May 1915, is 40 ft long, 20 ft wide and 18 ft high with a 10-ft rear wall (Hand Ball Rules: Four Wall Court (1915)): the 40 x 20 floor, 75 years before the first USHA text held (H-106). Source: Athletic League of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America, Official Handbook (1915), p. 181
• May 1915: The Y.M.C.A.'s four-wall rules of 1915 already put a server out for two short balls in succession (Hand Ball Rules: Four Wall Court (1915) Rule 5); the A.A.U. texts of 1920 and 1923 allowed three (Official Handball Rules of the Amateur Source: Athletic League of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America, Official Handbook (1915), p. 181
• 4 October 1915: Exposition handball tournament, San Francisco: Irish champion Gus Cole loses to Joe Ullius Source: Daily Capital Journal (Salem), 4 October 1915, p. 6, p. 6
• 25 November 1915: Open handicap handball tournament at the Van Kelton field, finals Thanksgiving afternoon Source: The Evening World (New York), 22 November 1915, p. 16, p. 16
• 10 December 1915: Yale, Princeton and Rutgers enrolled in a forming intercollegiate handball league; Columbia invited Source: Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (Newark), 10 December 1915, p. 26, p. 26
• 18 December 1915: Brokaw's 'How to Play American Hand Ball' is deposited for copyright (Rules of American Hand Ball (1916), H-16 supported): 55 rules, a board 20 ft wide and 10 ft high, floor 20 x 26 ft, service line midway at 13 ft, gloves compulsory, no Source: James I. Brokaw, How to Play American Hand Ball (1915), pp. 39-43

1916

• 5 February 1916: Yale's Lambert Prettyman invites Columbia into an intercollegiate handball league 'now being formed' Source: Chicago Eagle (Chicago), 5 February 1916, p. 8, p. 8
• 7 February 1916: 4,000 New York elementary schoolboys enter a handball tournament, 'the famous Irish game' Source: The Evening World (New York), 7 February 1916, p. 10, p. 10
• 17 February 1916: The new Y.M.C.A. building at New London, Conn., has a one-wall court on the street floor (and a five-wall court in the basement), as printed in the Norwich Bulletin Source: Norwich Bulletin (Norwich), 17 February 1916, p. 8, p. 8
• 26 February 1916: Columbia beats Yale 7-0 in the opening Intercollegiate Handball League match on Columbia's single-wall court; the Tribune headlines 'One-wall court handicaps Yale' Source: New-York Tribune (New York), 27 February 1916, p. 15, p. 15
• 7 March 1916: Columbia beats Princeton, all seven matches, at Princeton in the Intercollegiate Handball League; Princeton's courts have a back wall Source: New-York Tribune (New York), 8 March 1916, p. 14, p. 14
• 9 August 1916: The Sun: 'Don't confuse American handball with Irish (four wall) handball'; courts 60 x 40 with 26-ft side lines and 20-ft front lines, 13 ft from service line to board (1916 newspaper notes). Source: The Sun (New York), 9 August 1916, p. 11
• 9 August 1916: The Sun's query column: 'Most of the American handball courts are 60 feet by 40 feet, with 26 foot side lines and 20 foot front lines ... 13 feet from service line to board ... Source: The Sun (New York), 9 August 1916, p. 11
• 9 August 1916: The Sun answers a reader: American handball court, 26-ft side lines, 20-ft front lines, 13 ft from service line to board; hinder defined; not Irish four-wall Source: The Sun (New York), 9 August 1916, p. 11, p. 11
• 13 December 1916: Handball adopted as a Public Schools Athletic League sport, classed among championships Source: The Sun (New York), 13 December 1916, p. 14, p. 14

1917

• 13 February 1917: Rex Beach plays 'snowbird handball' on the New York Athletic Club roof; first roof tournament, sky for a ceiling, back wall Source: The Evening World (New York), 14 February 1917, p. 12, p. 12
• 23 February 1917 to 24 February 1917: Detroit Athletic Club hosts intercity singles and doubles handball championships (Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo); balls differ in weight and speed between cities Source: The Detroit Times (Detroit), 24 February 1917, p. 4, p. 4
• 7 April 1917: Columbia wins the Intercollegiate handball championship at the Crescent Athletic Club; Prettyman of Yale takes the singles Source: The Sun (New York), 8 April 1917, p. 18, p. 18

1918

• 4 May 1918: 'National handball tournament and dance' for the Sun's Tobacco Fund, 71st Regiment Armory, New York, run by the Friars Club and the Lone Star Boat Club Source: The Sun (New York), 5 May 1918, p. 17, p. 17
• 18 November 1918: A.A.U. annual meeting awards the national hand ball championship to the Los Angeles A. C.; next annual meeting to be held in Boston Source: The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer (Bridgeport), 19 November 1918, p. 4, p. 4

1919

• 22 February 1919: National handball championships at the Detroit Athletic Club: Sackman (New York) singles; Micus and Maurer (Detroit) doubles beat Sackman and Groden 21-18, 21-20 Source: The Sun (New York), 23 February 1919, p. 19, p. 19
• 27 April 1919: A.A.U. national singles and doubles handball championship at the Los Angeles A.C., 21-27 April 1919; Ranft beat Lacey 21-13, 21-11 (conflicting) A March 1919 preview announced the championship for the week of April 21 to 27, but the entry is dated April 27 from a newspaper report of April 28 on the singles title, so the day of the final is inferred from that report. Source: Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 28 April 1919, p. 17, p. 17
• 30 October 1919: A.A.U. legislation committee submits an entirely new set of handball rules to the Boston annual convention of 16-17 Nov 1919 Source: The News Scimitar (Memphis), 13 November 1919, p. 15, p. 15
• by 31 December 1919: First Metropolitan Association handball championship tournament, Annunciation A.C. courts, begins 4 Jan 1920, forty entrants Source: New-York Tribune (New York), 31 December 1919, p. 13, p. 13

Championships held

• AAU national four-wall handball championships

What the record does not hold

• The record holds nothing for the 1910s under rulebook editions: no edition dated to the decade is listed.
• The record holds nothing for 1910 and 1911: no fact, edition or championship is dated to those years.