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1922 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Gerald Patterson defeated Randolph Lycett 6–3, 6–4, 6–2 in the final to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1922 Wimbledon Championships. Bill Tilden William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American tennis player. Tilden was the world No. 1 amateur for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and was ranked as the world No. 1 professional b ... was the defending champion, but did not participate. Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1922 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles Men's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Patterson
Gerald Leighton Patterson Military Cross, MC (17 December 1895 – 13 June 1967) was an Australian tennis player. Patterson was active in the decade following World War I. During his career he won three Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments in the singles event as well as six titles in the doubles competition and one title in mixed doubles. He was born in Melbourne, educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, Scotch College and Trinity Grammar School (Victoria), Trinity Grammar School and died in Melbourne on 13 June 1967. He was the co-World number one male tennis player rankings, World No. 1 player for 1919 along with Bill Johnston (tennis), Bill Johnston. Playing career Tall and well-built, Patterson played a strong serve-and-volley game. At Wimbledon 1919, Patterson beat 41-year-old Norman Brookes, who was defending champion (Brookes' 1914 title was the last held before World War 1) in the Challenge Round. At Wimbledon 1922, the Challenge Round was abolished and Patterson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Greig
Donald McNeil Greig (31 January 1897 – 15 September 1959) was a British tennis player. Born in Battersea, Greig was an England representative player, most active on tour in the 1920s. His career singles titles include the East of England Championships and Kent Championships. Internationally he also had successes, winning the Sweden Covered Court (singles) and German Championships (doubles). He reached the singles round of 16 at the Wimbledon Championships four times. In 1927 he had to retire hurt during his round of 16 match against Jan Koželuh Jan Koželuh (29 January 1904 – 4 June 1979) was a Czech tennis player of the 1920s, not to be confused with his older brother Karel Koželuh (1895–1950), a player of the same era. Although Karel was inducted into the International Tennis H ..., but partnered with Phoebe Watson to make the semi-finals of the mixed doubles. Greig is considered a pioneer in the delivery by air of newspapers across Britain and mainland Europe. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Gerbault
Alain Jacques Georges Marie Gerbault (November 17, 1893 – December 16, 1941) was a French Sailor, writer and tennis champion, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a single-handed sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders' way of life. As a tennis player he was ranked the fifth on the French rankings in 1923. Early life Alain Gerbault was born on November 17, 1893, in Laval, Mayenne, to an upper-middle-class family. He spent much of his youth in Dinard, near the ancient port of St. Malo; he spent his summers playing tennis and football, as well as hunting and fishing. At college he studied civil engineering. He had a brother with whom they owned a lime factory in Laval. At the age of twenty-one, Gerbault joined in the Flying Corps, serving as an officer; by the end of the war, he was a decorated hero. After the war, he took up tennis, becoming the French champion, and also bridge, at which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Fisher
Francis Marion Bates Fisher (22 December 1877 – 24 July 1960) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament from Wellington. He was known as Rainbow Fisher for his frequent changes of political allegiance. He was a veteran of the Boer War and an internationally successful tennis player becoming the champion, along with his mixed doubles partner, Irene Peacock, of the World Covered Court Championships in 1920. Early life and family Fisher was the son of George Fisher, a member of parliament and Mayor of Wellington. David Fisher was his uncle. Frank Fisher was a captain in the 10th New Zealand Contingent to the South African Second Boer War in 1902. His eldest daughter, Esther Fisher (1900–1999), became an international pianist. Member of Parliament Fisher represented two Wellington electorates in the New Zealand House of Representatives for nine years from a 1905 by-election to the 1914 general election. Initially from 6 April 1905 he represented the multi-mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Lewis-Barclay
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Samuel Lewis Barclay (7 November 1892 – 20 April 1956) was an Australian-born army officer and sportsman who played first-class cricket and was a quarter-finalist at the 1925 Wimbledon Championships. Military career Having served as a captain in the 40th Battalion (Australia) in the First World War, he transferred to the Indian Army in 1917 and to the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals in 1927. He retired as a lieutenant-colonel in 1946. Cricket On 13 November 1926, Lewis-Barclay made his first-class debut, for Southern Punjab, against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from England. The match was played in Lahore and Lewis-Barclay opened the bowling for Southern Punjab, claiming figures of 3-75, which included the wicket of the MCC captain Arthur Gilligan. After amassing 285 runs in the first innings, the MCC dismissed Southern Punjab for just 89 and enforced the follow-on. Southern Punjab were eight wickets down and still trailing the MCC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Cazalet
Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, MC (27 December 1896 – 4 July 1943) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for nineteen years. He came from a prominent, wealthy English family. In his political career, he was a noted authority on international affairs and was a veteran of World War I. He became the liaison officer with Polish General Sikorski after the outbreak of World War II. He promoted strong military ties with the United States before and during the war and was an outspoken advocate for creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Cazalet was also an amateur athlete and squash champion in Great Britain for many years. He became godfather to actress Elizabeth Taylor after developing a friendship with her family. Travelling back to London from Gibraltar, he was killed in the 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash at age 46 along with General Sikorski and 15 others. Early life and education Victor Cazalet was born in London, at 4 Whitehall Gardens, on 12 December 1896, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Sumner Milford
Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford (8 February 1877 – 6 September 1952) was an English publisher and editor who from 1913 to 1945 was publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press (OUP). Overview In this work, he made OUP a major worldwide publisher of noteworthy books, music, and educational material for the general public, complementing the scholarly work of the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Milford himself edited volumes of works of Robert Browning, William Cowper, and Leigh Hunt; and was principal editor of ''The Oxford Book of Regency Verse'' (later ''The Oxford Book of Romantic Verse'') and a moving force behind the ''Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.'' Upon publication of the final volume of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University. He was knighted in 1936. His elder son by his first marriage was the composer Robin Milford (1903–1959); his younger son was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Erik Von Braun
Carl-Erik von Braun (14 November 1896 – 2 November 1981) was a Swedish tennis player who was active in the 1920s.Carl-Erik von Braun Swedish Olympic Committee Tennis career Von Braun competed at the between 1920 and 1925. Hist best singles result was reaching the third round in 1922 (lost to H.R. Fussell) and 1925 (lost to Raymond Casey). His best doubles result was at his first appearance in 1920 when he reached the third round partnering compatriot |
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle Of Westbourne
Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne (22 July 1882 – 6 March 1954) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician. Early life He was born in London, the only son of Charles Lyle and his wife, Mary, ''née'' Brown. He was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Business The family were major ship-owners who had diversified into sugar refining, and Leonard joined the firm in 1903, and became a director when his father retired in 1909. When Abram Lyle & Sons merged with Henry Tate & Sons in 1921 to form Tate & Lyle. He became a director of the new company, then chairman in 1928, and president in 1937. Lyle is best known for leading the opposition to the post-war Labour Government's plans to nationalise the sugar industry. The campaign was fronted by a cartoon character, "Mr Cube", drawn by artist Bobby St John Cooper. Sport Lyle was a notable athlete who represented Great Britain at lawn tennis, competing the Men's Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amos Wilder
Amos Niven Wilder (September 18, 1895 – May 4, 1993) was an American poet, minister, and theology professor. Life Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied for two years at Oberlin College (1913–1915), but volunteered in the AFS Intercultural Programs, Ambulance Field Service; he was awarded the ''Croix de Guerre.'' In November 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Field Artillery as a corporal. He wrote ''Battle Retrospect'', about his experiences in World War I. In 1920, Wilder graduated from Yale University. In college he was an inter-collegiate doubles champion tennis player, and he played at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in 1922, with his partner Lee Wiley. He served as secretary to Albert Schweitzer lecturing at Oxford University, where he was studying at Mansfield College, Oxford, Mansfield College (1921–1923). He completed his studies for ordained ministry at Yale in 1924. Ministry Wilder was ordained in 1926 and served in a Congregational churche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alfred Ingram
Alfred Ingram (1876–1944) was a British tennis player in the years before and after World war 1. He played in the Wimbledon singles from 1912 to 1926. His best performance at Wimbledon was a quarter final in 1913 (where he lost to Maurice McLoughlin). He won seven tournaments, including the 1910 Edmonton, where he defeated Hassan Ali Fyzee in the final. He was runner-up at the 1909 Sussex Championships, where he defeated Stanley Doust (a world No. 8) and Arthur Davys Tuckey in the semifinal before losing the final to Robert Powell Robert Powell (; born 1 June 1944) is an English actor who is known for the title roles in ''Mahler'' (1974) and '' Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent Richard Hannay in '' The Thirty Nine Steps'' (1978) and its .... His daughter Peggy played at Wimbledon (Alfred and Peggy played mixed doubles together at Wimbledon). References 1876 births 1944 deaths English male tennis players British male tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
