Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB, WOOD, WOOD SHAFT
Date: 1897—1904
Year Range from: 1897
Year Range to: 1904
Description: Wood club with socket head, leather grip, lined face, horn insert, backweight, shaft stamp and maker’s mark. Stamped number on sole.. Natural finish on clubhead, black finish on shaft.
Maker: SPALDING, A.G. & BROS.
Material: wood, leather, horn
Dimension Details: Overall: 42′; grip: 11″; clubhead: 3′ x 2 1/4″ x 1 1/8″
Marks/Inscriptions: LADIES’ DRIVER’ (sic) by A.G. SPALDING & BROS., PERIOD 1899—1901, One of the first socket head woods. Used by Dr. Anna Moon Randolph at Hampton Roads Golf & Country Club. 8G (on card attached to shaft); 18 (incomplete number on remnant of label); THE SPALDING (shaft stamp and maker’s mark; 210 (stamped on sole); R (carved into heel)
Additional Notes: Dr. Anna Moon Randolph graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1899. At that time, she was one of only 6 female doctors in Virginia and the first female physician on the Peninsula. She was a member of the Newport News Medical Society. Donor: Coach F. R. White was the sixth and then later the eighth head college football coach for the The Apprentice School Builders located in Newport News, Virginia and he held that position for four seasons. Authored a book about Homer Ferguson.
Object ID: GM 97
