Golf Match Club- Record of Matches 1897-1938

Craigie, John C

Published by Privately Printed, Croydon, UK, 1938

About this Item

Bookplate from the library of Joseph S.F. Murdoch. 339 pages. From the foreword: "This book is an amalgamation and continuation of the 1897-1908 record of matches prepared by Mr. Walter Bovill and of the 1908-1928 edition prepared by Mr. Douglas Fish, with the addition of some notes on the history of the club." Records of a golf club, The Match Golf Club, whose members I believe met in London for dinners during the winter months and made matches to be played in the future, thus recorded. Members include Horace G. Hutchinson, Bernard Darwin, and many other prominent men of golf. On page 38 of Hutchinson's autobiography, Fifty Years of Golf, Hutchinson says of an old iron putter of his: "one copy of which, adorned and glorified, used to lie, and may so still be, for all I know, on the table on the occasion of the dinners of the Match Dining Club." Uncommon and esoteric. Touch or wear to spine top & cover extremities, contents clean and bright. Covers protected in mylar. Size: Oblong 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # 201902

Bibliographic Details

Title: Golf Match Club- Record of Matches 1897-1938

Publisher: Privately Printed, Croydon, UK

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Privately Printed