25 years of Fives at the Zuoz Fives Club Zurich
The following article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1989/90
Alhaji Ahmadu Bello: The Sarduana of Sokoto
Sir Gawain Westray Bell was Governor of Northern Nigeria from 1957-1962. There he worked closely with Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto, who was a keen supporter of Fives in Northern Nigeria. The extracts below come from his book "An Imperial Twilight", which was published in 1989.
Shrewsbury World Record 1989
This article first appeared in the Shrewsbury School magazine in 1989.
Visit of the Katsina Fives Club to England March 1989
Richard and Tony in ceremonial dress
Tour of Nigeria by Richard Tyler & Tony Hughes
This article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1988/89
Planning a venture into the unknown
It is a quarter of a century since the white man played Eton Fives in Africa; thus with India and Australia now firmly established Richard and I decided as long ago as July 1987 that this had to be the next assignment.
Highgate School and Old Cholmeleians: 100 Years of Fives
The following article first appeared in the 1988 Centenary Programme
Geelong Tour 1987/88
The following article by Tony Hughes first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1987/88
A Kangaroo at Queen's - The Queen's Club Story 1886-1986
An extract reproduced by kind permission of the author Roy McKelvie
Kenneth Gandar Dower, whose astonishing versatility ranged through most moving ball games to racing Cheetahs and big game hunting was captain of Eton Fives at Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and in the Rugby Fives team for three years. According to a contemporary writer he had, when at his best, no superior at Eton Fives and, at Rugby Fives, was original and 'really good'.
The courts at Geelong Grammar School
Tennis, Rackets and Other Ball Games
An extract from the book by Mike Garnett published in Australia in 1986
"The Litle handball whether it be of some softer stuffe, and used by the hand alone, or of some harder, and used with the rackette, whether by tennice play with an other, or against a wall alone, to exercise the bodie with both the handes, in every kinde of motion, that concerneth any, or all the other exercises, is generally noted, to be one of the best exercises and the greatest preservatios of health". Richard Mulcaster, London 1581.
The teams from the centenary OE v OH match
Eton & Harrow: A Hundred Years of Fives
From The Harrovian 1985
The first Eton Fives Courts were built in 1840. Ball games had long been played in the bays between the buttresses of the Eton College Chapel but it was the particular attraction of the "doubles court", the area at the foot of the staircase to the North Door, which led to the distinctive ledges, "pepper pot" and step of the Eton Fives Court.