"South Park Bowling Club. Sketches". South Australia album of caricatures of the members.
Adelaide: Ca. 1931 -1938. Hardcover. 18 amusing color caricature pen and watercolor sketches of personages, including a panorama of the Club itself, drawn by a mature Club member.
The members of the Club are all depicted full length, mostly in profile, wearing their bowling gear, and identified in pencil in the margin, above their heads. They are depicted in different stances, some observing the play and some in mid bowl.
These members are mostly identified by surname only, and include: Harmon, Jarrett, Nicholls, Cook, W. Wright, Martin, Montgomery, Keen, A. Daniel, H. Goode, Arnold, Kelley, Wiltshire, Langdon, J. Deen (dated in pencil 9/9/38), McLaren, Jackett (?), Johns, Bosisto, Hagg[horn?], Donald Nicholson (with thistle, emblem of Scotland painted above), and "J. Knox, Quorn. Veteran's Day 12/3/31. Age 89 years".
There are 3 women bowlers in these sketches, including an unidentified woman about to pitch, dressed all in white, and captioned, "Ladies' Championship, S. A." Another unidentified pipe smoking Club member is shown next to a billiards table, a stick in hand, with the caption "Who said billiards?".
The double page panorama of the Club house shows a lovely well-kept, red roofed Tudor style building adorned with flowering vines, and flanked by tall pine trees and wide green lawns. The last page with a profile head and shoulders pencil portrait of an unidentified woman.
A newspaper article in the Adelaide Chronicle of 1912 refers to the Club in its early days, and its 125 members (Adelaide Chronicle, Sat 26 Oct 1912) and a photograph of the monument of the South Park Bowling Club War Memorial unveiled on the 7th July 1917, locates the memorial commemorating Club members who served in WWI (Unley Road & Thomas Street, Soldiers` Memorial Gardens, Unley). This site is now the Soldiers Memorial Gardens. We do not locate the South Park Bowling Club itself.
Oblong 8vo, 10 x 7". Quarter blue cloth and paper covered boards, with title in ink written on front board. Very good overall. Item #24762
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