World Championships in Dublin, 1890

One of our members, Brian Rich, who has a wealth of knowledge and material on the history of the game of real tennis, unearthed this one-page article. From a roughly contemporaneous account of the World Championship held on the Dublin real tennis court in 1890, this set of engravings shows Tom Pettitt (Boston) retaining his title in a match against the challenger Charles Saunders (London).

We don't have the precise details of the source of this article; The Graphic seems to have been an illustrated weekly English publication whose first edition was printed in 1869. If we find more details, we'll put them here.

See also an article giving more details of the match.