Lot 58
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LODER, Gerald Walter Erskine -- A real tennis log book belonging to Gerald Loder, entries dated October 14 1881 to July 10 1903, oblong 8° (230 x 138mm.), approx. 150 pp., 40 blank leaves, containing over 500 entries of matches, contemporary black morocco with the word "Tennis" stamped in gilt on upper cover (rubbed), contemporary newspaper cutting entitled "Tennis at Whittlebury" pasted on front endpaper, with the player's ownership inscription and bookplate.

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LODER, Gerald Walter Erskine -- A real tennis log book belonging to Gerald Loder, entries dated October 14 1881 to July 10 1903, oblong 8° (230 x 138mm.), approx. 150 pp., 40 blank leaves, containing over 500 entries of matches, contemporary black morocco with the word "Tennis" stamped in gilt on upper cover (rubbed), contemporary newspaper cutting entitled "Tennis at Whittlebury" pasted on front endpaper, with the player's ownership inscription and bookplate.

Lot Essay

Gerald Loder was an MP from Brighton around the turn of the century. He was the donor of the Loder Cup (cf. Noel & Clark p.483) and his father owned the court at Whittlebury. Among the more interesting entries (marked by blotters) are the first match ever played at Whittlebury against his brother on Dec 31, 1881, and in Jan 1888 when he played the world champion T. Pettitt in Boston, received 30 and left hand, but still lost 5-6, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6.

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