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New York Tennis Club Open
The New York Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1886. Its first annual open tournament was held from September to October, 1886. It was played on dirt courts at 147th St. and Nicholas Ave. in Manhattan (Washington Heights section). Their quarters were demolished to make way for new construction in 1898. The club's courts ceremoniously opened at 123rd St. and Nicholas Ave. in 1901. The tournament games were played at the Columbia Oval from 1912 to 1917. The club moved out of Manhattan to 238th and Broadway in the Bronx, 1918. It actually took over and restored the former house and courts of the West Side Tennis Club. Its fourth and final move was to the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx in 1928.''American Lawn Tennis'', July 20, 1928, pp. 288–289; Dec. 20, 1928 p. 633. Finals Men's singles (Incomplete roll) Women's singles (Incomplete roll; not held every year) {, class="wikitable" style="font-size:98%;" , - ! style="width:60px;", Year ! style="width:230px;", Champions ! styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. The only Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common #Red clay, red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder #Green clay, green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, clay requires much maintenance: the surface must be watered and rolled regularly to preserve texture and flatness, and brushed carefully before and during each match. Early history Clay courts, although now commonly associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Throckmorton
Harold Avington Throckmorton (April 12, 1897 – November 5, 1973) was an American tennis player in the early 20th century. Biography He was born on April 12, 1897, in Hackensack, New Jersey. He played intercollegiate tennis for Princeton University. He was champion of the state of New Jersey. In 1917 he won the men's doubles titles at the U.S. National Championships with Fred Alexander Frederick Beasley Alexander (August 14, 1880 – March 3, 1969) was an American tennis player in the early 20th century. He won the singles title at the 1908 Australasian Championships and six double titles at Grand Slam events. Career In 1908 .... In 1918, he served in the artillery in the United States Army. After the war, he became a businessman. He died in 1973. He left $2,500 () for the care of his Irish terrier. Grand Slam finals Doubles (1 title) References External links Grand Slam History profile 1897 births 1973 deaths 20th-century American sportsmen American male t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessie Holden
Bessie is a feminine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Elizabeth, Beatrice and other names since the 16th century. It is sometimes a name in its own right. Notable people with the name include: People *Bessie Abott (1878–1919), American operatic soprano *Bessie Barriscale (1884–1965), American actress *Elizabeth Blount ( 1498/1502 – 1540), mistress of Henry VIII of England *Bessie Braddock (1899–1970), British politician * Bessie Christie (1904–1983), New Zealand painter *Bessie Coleman (1892–1926), American civil aviator *Annie Elizabeth Delany (1891–1995), American civil rights pioneer *Bessie Drysdale (1871–1950), British teacher, suffragette and birth control campaigner *Bessie Alexander Ficklen (1861–1945), American poet and artist *Bessie Blount Griffin (1914–2009), American physical therapist, inventor, and forensic scientist *Bessie Head (1937–1986), South African writer *Bessilyn Johnson (1871–1943), wife of Chicago millionai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Wagner
Marie Wagner (February 2, 1883 – April 1, 1975 or March 28, 1975) was an American tennis champion. Biography Wagner was born on February 2, 1883, in Freeport, New York. An outstanding tennis player, she won the United States Indoor Championships a record number of times. In the singles event, she won the title six times (1908, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, and 1917) while in doubles, she was successful in 1910, 1913 (with Clara Kutross), 1916 (with Molla Mallory) and in 1917 (with Margaret Taylor). At the U.S. National Championships, her best showing was reaching the final in 1914 which she lost in three sets to reigning champion Mary Browne. Wagner was ranked in the Top 10 in the U.S. between 1913 (the first year women were ranked) and 1920. She achieved her highest national ranking of No.3 in 1914. Wagner is mentioned in Chapter 3 of Harpo Speaks!, the 1961 autobiography of Harpo Marx. When Harpo was a child, the Marx family lived in a tenement building at 179 93rd Street, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molla Bjurstedt
Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory ( Bjurstedt; 6 March 1884 – 22 November 1959) was a former Norwegian-American world no 2 ranked tennis player. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman to represent Norway at the Olympics. Tennis career Although she had won a bronze medal in singles for Norway at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and was the many-time champion of her homeland, Mallory was relatively unknown when she arrived in New York City to begin work as a masseuse in 1915. She entered the U.S. Indoor Championships that year unheralded and beat Marie Wagner 6–4, 6–4, which was the first of her five singles titles at that tournament. She also won the singles title in Cincinnati in 1915. Mallory had less in the way of stroke equipment than most tennis champions, but she was a fierce competitor, running with great endurance. Robert Kelleher, a former president of the United States Tennis Association (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Moore
Elisabeth 'Bessie' Holmes Moore (March 5, 1876 – January 22, 1959) was an American tennis champion who was active at the beginning of the 20th century. Moore won the singles title at the U.S. Championships on four occasions. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. Biography Elisabeth Moore was born on March 5, 1876, in Brooklyn, the daughter of George Edward Moore (1840–1911), an affluent cotton broker, and Sarah Z. Orr (1857–1942). She was raised and schooled in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She learned to play tennis at age 12. Moore reached her first U.S. National Championships singles final in 1892 at the age of 16 years and three months, losing to Mabel Cahill from Ireland in the first five-set match contested between two women. In the final years of the 19th century, she had a rivalry with Juliette Atkinson. She won the inaugural U.S. Indoor Women's Singles Championship in 1907, defeating Marie Wagner in the final in three sets. In 1908, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline McKinlay
Adeline "Addie" Maud McKinlay (January 13, 1868 in Dubuque - July 6, 1955 in New York City) was an American tennis player. Biography Adeline McKinlay was born January 13, 1865 in Dubuque, Iowa. Her father was a Scottish immigrant, whose name was often mistaken for "McKinley." She graduated from Vassar College in 1888 and began training for the US Women's National Championship. She notably won the US Women's National Championship in 1892 in women's doubles with Mabel Cahill Mabel Esmonde Cahill (2 April 1863 – 2 February 1905) was an Irish female tennis player, active in the late 19th century, and was the first foreign woman to win a major tennis tournament when she won the 1891 US National Championships. Early .... McKinlay went on to represent the New York Tennis Club. After settling in New York, she married Horace Hatch on 12 October 1893 in the First Baptist Church, Manhattan. McKinley died on July 6, 1955 in New York City. She left a son and a daughter. Grand S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Seligson
Julius "Julie" Seligson (December 22, 1909, in New York City – October 13, 1987) was an American tennis player in the early part of the 20th century. Seligson was ranked as high as # 8 in USTA Singles in 1928. In 1928 he won the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship in singles. He was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Men’s Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame. Early and personal life Seligson was born in New York City, New York, and was Jewish, and experienced anti-Semitism in tennis. He attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. In 1937 he married Gertrude "Gerry" Seligson (nee Goodman). They lived in Westport, Connecticut, from 1948 on. Tennis career As a junior he was the national boy's 18-and-under champion in 1925 and 1926. In 1927 he won the Eastern Grass Court Championships. He played collegiate tennis at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1930. Seligson never lost a regular season match. In 1928 he won the NCAA Men' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Mangin
Gregory Sylvester Mangin (November 1, 1907 – October 27, 1979) was an American tennis player and Wall Street broker. He won four U.S. National Indoor Championships, U.S. Indoor singles titles in the 1930s. Early life and education Mangin was born in Newark, New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey. All four of his grandparents were born in Ireland. He was educated at Georgetown University and learned lawn tennis in Montclair, New Jersey. Tennis career Mangin won the Eastern Clay Court Championships in 1928 defeating Herbert Bowman in the final. Mangin won the singles title at the U.S. Indoor Championships, held at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City, New York, in 1932, 1933, 1935 and 1936. In 1931, Mangin and Berkeley Bell were runners-up in the doubles final of the 1931 U.S. National Championships (tennis), U.S. National Championships in Brookline, Massachusetts, Brookline, Mass., losing in straight sets to compatriots John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison. He was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Shields
Francis Xavier Alexander Shields Sr. (November 18, 1909 – August 19, 1975) was an American amateur tennis player of the 1920s and 1930s, and an actor known for '' Hoosier Schoolboy'' (1937). He was ranked world No. 2 in 1931, and U.S. No. 1 in 1933. Tennis career Noel Dickson in the Melbourne Herald ranked him world No. 2 in 1931, and world No. 5 in 1930 by A. Wallis Myers of ''The Daily Telegraph''."Big Bill Tilden is Second Only to Henri Cochet" ''The Montreal Gazette'', November 27, 1930. Between 1928 and 1945, the USLTA ranked him eight times in the U.S. Top Ten, reaching No. 1 in 1933, and No. 2 in 1930. In January 1928, Shields was runner-up to |
Herbert Bowman
Herbert L. Bowman (21 April 1897 – April 1980) was an American tennis player in the early 20th century.”Anderson Reaches Semifinal Round; Holder of Castle Point Tennis Trophy Downs Emerson in Hard Fought Match,” New York Times (Sept. 231921. See also, Wright & Ditson, Lawn Tenns Guide, Officially Adopted (Boston, MA 1920), “Singles Championship of the United States, Forest Hills, New York, on Aug. 30, 1920,” at10 In grand slam tournaments his best result came at the 1922 U.S. National Championships where he reached the fourth round before losing to Vinnie Richards. He played in over 100 tournaments, and 225 matches in singles between 1915 and 1946, and won 40 career titles. Career Bowman was born in New York, New York, Bowman took his bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1919. While at Cornell, he joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 1915, and through that affiliation, was a member of the Irving Literary Society. Bowman played in his first U.S. National Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watson Washburn
Watson McLean Washburn (June 13, 1894 – December 2, 1973) was an American tennis player who was in the top 10 in the US seven times between 1914 and 1922. He was also one of the founders of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, to which he was inducted in 1965. He also competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Biography He was born in Manhattan on June 13, 1894. He was primarily a doubles player and teamed with Richard Norris Williams to take the Davis Cup in 1921. Also with Williams, he reached two US Championship finals and one at Wimbledon. He won the US Intercollegiate Doubles Championship in 1913 and the Indoor Doubles Championship in 1915. In July 1915, Washburn and Williams won the doubles title at the Eastern Tennis Championship in Brookline defeating Irving C. Wright and Wallace F. Johnson in four sets. In 1917, Washburn joined the American Expeditionary Forces and served during World War I in France as a captain in the artillery. In 1921, Washburn defeated Richard N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
