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Department of Rare Books & Special Collections

TENNIS THE STORY OF A SPORT an exhibition celebrating the WILLIAM D. HAGGARD III TENNIS COLLECTION

Mezzanine Exhibition Gallery Thomas Cooper Library University of South Carolina May-August 2005

The William D. Haggard III Collection brings to Thomas Cooper Library its first major collection ofrare books about sports history. Bi1Jy Haggard, who died early last year, was a champion equestrian from Aiken, Sc. Aiken boasts one of only ten courts in the U.S. for traditional tennis ("court tennis" or ''real tennis"), at which Mr. Haggard became an outstanding competitor. He was also a renowned collector of rare books relating to the sports that he enjoyed. In 1998, he loaned some of his court tennis books for an exhibition here, and he visited the library several times. His tennis collection came to the University through the support of some of Mr. Haggard's friends and with a matching grant from the Lucy Hampton Bostick Trust, with additional recent gifts by Janet Haggard Harkins.

This exhibition tells the story of tennis over the past seven centuries, beginning with a first edition of the first book about tennis (1555). The earlier cases illustrate the development of tennis from its medieval origins in cloister and royal palace, through its central role in the Renaissance and pre­Revolutionary France. The second half of the exhibition follows the reshaping oftennis in France, England, and America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as court tennis stubbornly survived alongside its upstart younger cousin. lawn tennis, and as lawn tennis mutated from country-house recreation to suburban club sport, professional career, the rise of media stardom, and a new democratization.

1: THE EARLIEST TENNIS BOOK ... Tennis: from an illuminated manuscript, ca. 1450 . ... Scaino, Antonio, Tratto del Givoco della Palla. Vinegia, 1555. * Scaino, Tratto del Givoco della Palla. Facsimile, Salerno, n.d.

* Scaino, Scaino on Tennis. London, 1951. * Morgan, Roger, Tudor Tennis, A Miscellany. Oxford, 2001. * The Royal Tennis Court, Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland. S.l.: n.d. '" The First Picture ofa Tennis Net, ca.1600. '" A College Tennis Court, ca. 1600. * Danzig, Allison, The Royal & Ancient Game of Tennis. Philadelprua, 1997.

2: TENIfIS AS A ROYAL GAME '" Shakespeare, William, Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London, 1632. '" James VI & I, "Basilicon Doron," in The Workes. London, 1616-20. '" Pepys, Samuel, Memoirs . .. : comprising his diary. 2 vols. London, 1825.

3: THE ART OF THE PAUMlER· RAQUETIBR '" De Garsault, Francois, L 'Art du Paumier­raquefier et de la Paume. S.I.: s.n., 1767. '" A Modern Court Tennis Racket. '" De Garsault, The Art of the Tennis-Racket­Maker and of Tennis. Leftwich. S.I., 1938. '" De Garsault, The Art • .• Baltimore, 1977. '" The Stages of Making a Tennis Ball.

4: ENLIGHTENMENT & REVOLUTION * Diderot, Denis, Encyclopedie • .. des sciences, des arts et des metiers. Paris [etc.], 1751-65. The collection has two sets of the plates depicting tennis. '" David, Jacques-Louis, La Serment du Jeu de Paume. From the engraving by Jazet, 1822. '" David, from Versailles Sketch-book.

5: 19TH CENTURY COURT TENNIS '" Barcellon, Pierre. Rules and Principles of Tennis. Trans!. Hamilton, Bt. Oxford, 1987. '" Bromley, William, Ba"e. Mezzotint engraving. S.I., [1849]. '" [Lukin, Robert], A Treatise on Tennis, by a

Member o/tlre Tennis Club. London, ] 822. Facsimile, Oxford. 1991. The first book about tennis in English,. * Games with the Ball-Tennis: the Court at Lord's. Chromolithograph. London, n.d. • Fournier, Edouard, Le Jeu de Paume, Son Histoire & Sa Description. Paris, 1862. • Marshall, Julian, The Annals of Tennis. London, 1878. '" Walsh, John Henry, Manual of British rural sports. 4th ed. London, 1859. '" Diagram intended 10 Explain the Game of Tennis. Reproduced from a 19th century print in the Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club. '" Heathcote, John Moyer, et al. Tennis; Lawn Tennis; Rackets; Fives. Badminton Library. London, 1900.

6: BEGINNINGS OF LAWN TENNIS '" Gibbons, W. G. Royal Leamington Spa: the Seeds of Lawn Tennis. Coventry, 1986. * Aberdare, Lord. The Story of Tennis. London, 1959. * "Major Walter Clopton Wingfield." '" British Sports and Sportsmen. 2 vols. London, 1930. '" Hall, Henry, ed. The Trihune hook of open-air sports. New York, 1887. Gift of Matthew J. Bruccoli. '" Lawn Tennis in cartoons: Punch (Oct. 10, '1874, and Sept. 23, 1876). '" Slaughter, Frances, ed. The Sportswoman's Library, voL II. Westminster, 1898. '" Lavery, Sir John. The Tennis Party. 1885. * Brewtnal~ E. F. Tea and Tennis. 1890.

7: FROM RECREATION TO COMPETITION '" Paret, Jabial Parmly. Lawn Tennis, its Past, Present, and Future. New York, 1904. • Whitman, Malcolm D. "The Theory of Play in Modem Lawn-Tennis," in Patten, The Book of Sport. New York, 1903. '" Williams, Paul B. United Stales Lawn

Tennis Association and the World War. New York,1921. • Tilden, William Tatum, 2nd

• The Art of Lawn Tennis. Garden City, 1921. * Lacoste, Jean Rene. Lacoste on Tennis. New York, 1928. * Wills, Helen. Tennis, with illustrations by the author. New York, 1929.

8: SOME COURT TENNIS RARITIES * Miles, Eustace H. Racquets, Tennis & Squash. New York, 1903. * Tompkins, Frederick C. Court Tennis; with Notes on Racquets & Squash-racquets. Philadelphia, 1909. * De Luze, Albert. La Magnifique Histoire du Jeu de Paume. Bordeaux & Paris, 1933. Original wrappers. * Noel, E. B. and Clark, J. O. M. A History of Tennis. 2 vols. London, 1924. No. 14 of 20 copies on handmade paper.

9: STARS OF MODERN TENmS * Laver, Rod, in Bartlett and Gillen, eds. The Tennis book. New York, 1981. * McPhee, John A. Levels of the game. New York, 1969. Gift of Harry Hootman. * Riggs, Bobby, with George McGann. Court hllstler: an autobiography. New York, 1973. * Burchard, S. H. Sports star Chris Evert. New York, 1976. * Wertheim, L. J. Venus en.,,: a sensational season inside the women's tennis tour. New York, 2001. * Williams, Venus, and Serena Williams. How to play tennis. New York, 2004.

10: THE SURVIVAL OF COURT TENNIS * Covey, Neil, ed. Fred Covey, World Champion of Tennis. Oxford, 1994. * Danzig, Allison. The Racquet Game. New York,1930. * Aberdare, Clarence, 3rd Baron, ed. Rackets,

Squash-Rackets, Tennis, Fives, & Badminton. Lonsdale Library. London, 1933. '" Aberdare, Morys, 4th Baron, The Story of Tennis. London, 1959 . ... Etchebaster, Pierre, Pierre's book; the game of court tennis. Ed. and intro. by George Plimpton. Barre, 1971. Gift of Julian Peabody, 2004. * "The Aiken Tennis Club," in Aberdare, The Willis Faber book of Tennis and Rackets. London, 1980. * Garnett, Michael P. A History of Royal Tennis in Australia. Victoria, 1983. * Shneerson, John. Two Centuries of Real Tennis. Oxford, 1997.

11: SaLY HAGGARD: SPORTSMAN &BOOKMAN * Etchebaster, Pierre's book. Inscribed to Billy Haggard. * Billy Haggard with Pierre Etchebaster, from Aiken Standard, April 20, 1970. '" The Rules of Tennis in the United States. N.p., 1934. '" Dedans Tickets for World Championship Challenges (1968, 1969, 1970) . .. Program for World Tennis Championship 2nd Leg. Manchester, 1969. * The Manchester Tennis Court. '" Memo from Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1984. '" Turberville, George, The noble art of venerie. London, 1575. Loaned by Janet Haggard Harkins. Shown with 2nd ed., 1611. '" Somerville, E. CE., and 'Martin Ross.' Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. London, 1899. And: Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. London,1908. Signed. From the collection donated by Janet Haggard Harkins.

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