Year
1923
9 dated items in the record for 1923, and 2 championship result rows.
Dated items
- 1923: First GAA-sponsored handball championships (GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)); Spalding's 1923 guide prints 'Rules for Irish Handball or the Hard-Ball Game' for American readers. Source: GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)
- 1923: Ripley's suggested four-wall changes match one-wall practice (H-65): the younger code starts to influence the older. Source: Robert L. Ripley (ed.), Spalding's Official Handball Guide (1923)
- 1923: Spalding's Official Handball Guide (ed. Ripley) prints the four-wall rules, the one-wall rules, the GAA hardball rules and seven 'Suggested Rule Changes' (Suggested Rule Changes). Source: Robert L. Ripley (ed.), Spalding's Official Handball Guide (1923)
- 1923: Ripley's 'Suggested Rule Changes' (Suggested Rule Changes) already ask the four-wall game to borrow one-wall practice (H-65); whether any were adopted in 1924-28 is unknown (H-18). Source: Robert L. Ripley (ed.), Spalding's Official Handball Guide (1923)
- 1923: A publisher's editor proposes changes to the federation: Ripley's seven 'Suggested Rule Changes' in Spalding's guide (Suggested Rule Changes); outcome unknown (H-18). Source: Robert L. Ripley (ed.), Spalding's Official Handball Guide (1923)
- 26 February 1923 to 3 March 1923: Detroit Athletic Club renews the national invitation handball tournament, the first since 1919 Source: Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 25 February 1923, p. 64, p. 64
- 19 March 1923 to 24 March 1923: A.A.U. national handball championships at the St. Paul Athletic Club: Joe 'Red' Murray (Olympic Club, San Francisco) beat Maynard Laswell for the singles; holder Art Schinner eliminated; scores reported two ways (conflicting) Newspapers reported the scores of the 1923 national singles final in two different ways; this entry follows the Associated Press dispatch from St. Paul. Source: The Omaha Morning Bee (Omaha), 20 March 1923, p. 11, p. 11
- 24 April 1923: Syndicated column quotes 'the new rules for handball': standard court four walls approximately 24 by 48 feet, ceilings 25 feet at the front wall (the revised A.A.U. text; the 1920/21 text said 24 by 50) Source: The Laramie Republican (Laramie), 24 April 1923, p. 4, p. 4
- 20 November 1923 to 26 December 1923: A.A.U. awards its 1924 national handball championships: four-wall senior at Los Angeles, four-wall junior at Pittsburgh, one-wall at New York, hard-ball at Brooklyn (convention at Detroit closed 20 Nov 1923) Source: The Seattle Star (Seattle), 20 November 1923, p. 13, p. 13