Real Tennis in Hobart

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Real Tennis in Hobart - the Pioneers, is a history of the introduction of real (or royal) tennis to Australia, beginning with the establishment by Samuel Smith Travers of the court on Davey St, Hobart in 1874 and his publication A Treatise on Tennis in 1875.

The book also includes: an account of Australia's first professional tennis player, Thomas Stone; a list of about 1600 people who visited the Hobart court in its first decade; and shipboard diaries from voyages to Australia from England in the 1870s.

Softcover book
Published 2021
152-pages
Illustrated

SKU SKU19702

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Weight 0.65 kg

Author Richard Travers

ISBN 9780648278740

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