Bound volume, MCC Tennis and Rackets Sub-Committee minutes [1926-1960]. Includes rules for Tennis Challenge Prizes - The Gold Racket and Byng-Gribble Cup, 1927, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939.
Items include:
Recommendation that a Standard Squash Racket Court be made and that estimates should be obtained, 13 July 1926
Decision to build a Squash Racket Court using one side wall and the back wall of the existing Racket Court, 29 October 1926
Conversion of 'A' Squash Court into a standard court, 22 November 1927
Decision to close the En-Tout-Cas Court in 1929, 23 January 1929
Decision to play a tennis match at Lord's between W Groom (Lord's) and E Johnson (Moreton Morrell) on the second day of the Test Match between England and Australia in July 1930, 21 May 1929
Meeting of the Sub-Committee re Young Professionals' exhibition tennis matches, 1938
Report that a grant be given to H Johns, Tennis Professional at Fairlawn, who had been at Lord's for three weeks during the winter of 1937-1938 to learn how to recover tennis balls, 9 May 1938
Decision to offer the position of second tennis professional to H Johns to replace E Latham who was to join Petworth following the death of C Lambert, 4 July 1938
Recommendations for repair of the courts following the Second World War, 5 November 1945
Consideration of whether the old Rackets court should be used for a cricket library and picture gallery, 5 November 1945
Arrangements for H Johns to work at the Tennis Club in Bordeaux for a few weeks in exchange for their young professional Henri St. Germain to work at Lord's, 22 March 1949
Arrangements for an exhibition tennis match at Lord's between H Johns and Pierre Etchebaster, 22 March 1949
Report that a tennis emblem consisting of an eighteenth century craving of crossed tennis rackets from the Duke of Bedford's Court at Woburn Abbey had been presented to MCC by Sir Eric Gore Browne, 1 February 1950
Report that G Ferguson, the Squash Professional, would be leaving MCC to become Rackets Professional at Clifton College, 5 April 1951
Report that W Groom would be reaching the retirement age in September 1955, 8 July 1954
Agreement that W Groom should be granted a testimonial, including two benefit matches, following his request to retire, 23 May 1955
Report that E Latham (from Queens Club) had been employed at Lord's since September 1957, 28 January 1958
Report that MCC had accepted from Lord Aberdare [Morys Bruce, Fourth Baron Aberdare] the Coupe de l'Exposition 1937, a trophy won by his father [Clarence Napier Bruce, Third Baron Aberdare], 28 January 1958
Report that B Church had accepted an appointment as tennis professional at Cambridge University, 30 July 1958
Recommendation that H Johns should work on rebuilding the present stock of tennis balls and make a new set at a cost of £50, and that MCC should accept the offer of two sets of balls from Humphrey Noble, 4 May 1959
Report that P Ellis had been released from MCC to play cricket in Scotland during the cricket season, 4 May 1959
