TENNIS & OTHER RACQUET SPORTS


245 A portrait of the British rower Tony Butcher by an unknown hand, oil on canvas, 68.5 by 53cm., 27 by 21in., framed £200 - 300


247 A very scarce, important and early 20 page article on ‘Lawn Tennis’ written by ‘John Latouche’ the pen name of Oswald John Frederick Crawfurd (1834-1909) as published inside Volume V of New Quarterly Magazine, October to January 1876, this is a significant paper pre-dating the first Wimbledon Championships, and post-dating by one year the earliest known article ‘Lusio Pilaris and Lawn Tennis’ by George Cayley which was printed in the Edinburgh Review of 1875, Crawfurd’s article refers to Cayley’s “...capital article’, Captain Wingfield, Spahiristike, the history of handball games, lawn tennis styles, strokes and technique, and includes a copy of the ‘Laws of Lawn Tennis - Revised by the M.C.C.’ in May 1875, the volume is 492 pages, with some splitting along the front spine and a missing piece to the top of about 3cm., otherwise, a good and clean copy


Crawfurd was a diplomat, writer and critic who worked at the Foreign Office before being posted to Portugal as consul. Here he wrote many articles and books about the country. £200 - 300


248 Two Ayres’ lawn Tennis Almanacks,


for 1933 and 1936 £60 - 80


249 Lenglen (Suzanne) The Love Game,


Being the Life-Story of Marcelle Penrose, a novel written by the legendary French champion tennis player, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1925 £60 - 100


246 A small travel poster featuring yacht racing inscribed ‘Italia’, published by the Italian Tourist Agency Enit and dated 1936, backed onto linen, the image 34 by 23.5cm., 13 1/2 by 9 1/4in. £30 - 50


250 Five American volumes on tennis, Fifty Years of Lawn Tennis in the United States, published by the U.S.L.T.A., a rare survival with the original f/j, albeit chipped, 1931; The Science of Lawn Tennis. Edward B. Dewhurst, 1910; The Ten Best Shots of The Ten Best Players and Analysis of Tournament Play by Beals C. Wright, pamphlet, 1927; Want to be a Tennis Champion?, by Don Budge, pamphlet, 1945; and Lawn Tennis Its Founders & Its Early Days by George E. Alexander, 1974 £80 - 120


254 A Mary Gregory-style cranberry glass beaker depicting a finely detailed slip drawing of boy hitting a lawn tennis ball circa 1890. engraved with the initials ‘E A H’ on the reverse side. 11.5cm., 4 1/2in. £150 - 250


251 Two American Real Tennis books,


Ball, Bat and Bishop, The Origin of Ball Games, by Robert W. Anderson, a rare copy with the original d/j, 1947; and The Racquet Game by A. Danzig, 1930; the lot also including a facsimile copy of Julian Marshall’s Annals of Tennis, published in 1973 (3) £80 - 120


252 American Lawn Tennis, ten editions of the magazine dated 5th August 1934, 5th July 1940, 20th March 1942, 5th September 1942, August 15th 1944, July 1st 1947, September 1st 1947, July 1st 1948, May 1949 and October 1949, all with pictorial covers, featured players including Perry & Austin £80 - 120


253 Thee volumes on squash, Strokes and Tactics of Squash Racquets by Palmer Dixon c.1925; A Handbook on Squash Racquets by C. Arnold, c.1926; and The Art of Squash Racquets by Harry Cowles, c.1935 £80 - 120


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