Golf Match Club- Record of Matches 1897-1938 Craigie, John C [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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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."" These are records of a golf club without a course, 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, Herbert Fowler, C. K. Hutchison, Bernard Darwin, and many other prominent men of golf. FORMERLY OWNED BY FAMED GOLF AUTHOR AND RESEARCHER DAVID STIRK, HIS NAME WRITTEN ON UPPER TITLE PAGE, EX LIBRIS 1989. Included is a noted initialed by Stirk which comments the following: 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. Beautiful copy. Green cloth unmarked, gilt lettering complete, contents clean and bright. Covers protected in mylar. Size: Oblong 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" Tall