Horace G Hutchinson: 5 books

This volume, the third in AfterMath’s sports nostalgia series, contains three collections of essays on golf by P.A. Vaile, Horace G. Hutchinson, and Henry Leach.  The essays reflect their views of golf in both the United Kingdom and internationally in the early twentieth century.  While...

Cricket began when first a man-monkey, instead of catching a cocoanut thrown him playfully by a fellow-anthropoid, hit it away from him with a stick which he chanced to be holding in his hand. But the date of this occurrence is not easy to ascertain, and therefore it is impossible to fix the date...

     "Seven!" he repeated sadly. "Oh, then he has lost three years already!"     I was given a club long before I was seven, but our house was two long miles from the course, and miles are very long for the short legs of seven. There were the fields, but though it is reported...

This is the second volume of "The 'Country Life' Library of Sport - Fishing", containing a wealth of timeless information for the modern angler. This Easy-to-digest and profusely-illustrated book contains chapters on everything from the classification of fish and equipment, to proper technique,...

"The Mystery of the Summer-House"! That is what the papers are calling it, and the village of Upper Scotney has never seen the like. Lady Carlton, the young wife of Sir Ralph Carlton, has been found murdered in the grounds of Scotney House. While Sir Ralph and the police investigate the crime, his...