Tennis Fixtures and Correspondence

Reference

MCC/TEN/2/5

Date:

1973-03-14 - 1974-11-01

Level of description

file

Extent

2 folders

Part of

Department Correspondence and Papers (MCC/TEN/2)

Scope and Content

Correspondence, memoranda relating to tennis fixtures at Lord's compiled by Group Captain W R Ford, MCC Club Administrator (also known as Assistant Secretary (Administration)) and J G Lofting, MCC Assistant Secretary (Cricket). Includes fixture lists for the 1974-1975 season, draw for the amateur tennis doubles championship in 1973 and 1974, draw for the first round of the Gold Racquet and Byng-Gribble Cup in 1974, administrative arrangements for an exhibition tennis match at Lord's in 1974 between the World Champion H R Angus and David Cull the MCC Professional, rules and conditions, handicaps and the draw for the D P Henry and Hubert Ollis Cups in 1974, rules for the Gold Racquet and Byng-Gribble Cup in 1973, rules, conditions, draw and handicaps for the R Aird Cup in 1973, draw for the MCC vs. Hatfield tennis match at Lord's in November 1973, draw for the MCC vs. Old Etonians match at Lord's in October 1973, draw for the MCC vs. Petworth tennis match at Lord's in October 1973, draw for the MCC vs. Holyport tennis match at Lord's in October 1973, minutes of a meeting of a Tennis and Squash Sub-Committee Working Party held to study the rules for the MCC Tennis Challenge Prizes and make recommendations, notes on the duties of match managers, draft list of tennis fixtures for the 1973-1974 and 1974-1975 seasons, requests for S C Griffith to manage the MCC vs. Petworth match in 1973, list of the Oxford University team to play MCC in November 1973, memorandum to members from S C Griffith, MCC Secretary, indicating what days the tennis and squash courts would be closed during Christmas, schedule for the United States Rovers Senior Tennis Team in 1974 which included matches at Lord's, list of court charges for February 1971, advertisement for trips to Hobart and Melbourne run by the Tennis and Rackets Association in connection with the Centenary of the Hobart Tennis Club.

Associations

Group Captain W R Ford
J G Lofting
H R Angus
David Cull
Stewart Cathie Griffith
Hobart Tennis Club
Tennis and Rackets Association
Oxford University

Subject

Aird Cup, Byng-Gribble Cup, tennis, real tennis

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

2 folders

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• Department Correspondence and Papers (MCC/TEN/2)
  
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