Rockaway Hunting Club Invitation
| Rockaway Hunting Club Invitation | |
|---|---|
| Defunct tennis tournament | |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Abolished | 1966 |
| Location | Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, United States |
| Venue | Rockaway Hunting Club |
| Surface | Grass |
The Rockaway Hunting Club Invitation[1] was an early men's tennis tournament founded in 1886 as the Rockaway Hunting Club Lawn Tennis Tournament[2] and played at Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, United States until 1966.[3]
History
[edit]In 1878 the Rockaway Hunting Club was founded in Bayswater, New York as a country club.[4] In 1884 it moved to Lawrence, Nassau County, New York.[5] In 1886 the club staged an open men's tennis event called the Rockaway Hunting Club Lawn Tennis Tournament. The first tournament was won by Henry Warner Slocum who would go on to win the event two more times.[6] The event for the first forty years just featured a permanent men's singles event, [7] In 1888 a women's invitational singles was added to the schedule but it was not held every year. However a double's men's event was added and In 1940 the women's invitational event became a regular event[8] The tournament ran annually till 1966 when it was discontinued.
References
[edit]- ^ "HUNTING CLUB'S TENNIS TOURNEY.Below is given the score of the players at the Rockaway Hunting Club Invitation tennis tournament on its grounds at Cedarhurst yesterday.". The New York Times. 21 July 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ Hall, Valentine Gill (1889). "Tournaments of 1886". Lawn tennis in America. Biographical sketches of all the prominent players ... knotty points, and all the latest rules and directions governing handicaps, umpires, and rules for playing. New York: D. W. Granbery & co. p. 11.
- ^ Crowninshield, Frank (1966). "Sportsmans Calendar". Vanity Fair. New York: Condé Nast. p. 4.
- ^ "Our Story". www.rhcny.com. Lawrence, New York: Rockaway Hunting Club. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ Rockaway Hunting Club
- ^ "Tournament – Rockaway Hunting Club". www.tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "BAGGS SURPRISES LARNED AT TENNIS; First Round of Rockaway Hunting Club Tournament Has Well-Played Matches". The New York Times. New York. 20 July 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ Times, Kingsley Childs Special To the New York (2 January 1940). "Hall-Shields Annex Two Matches In Rockaway Hunting Club Tennis; Top Bowden-Gerard and Herndon-Von Bernuth and Advance to the Semi-Final Round-MacPherson-Ernest Sutter Gain: CEDARHURST, L.I., June 1st. Two straight-set victories by J. Gilbert Hall and Frank Shields were among the highlights today as sixteen pairs opened play in the annual invitation tennis doubles tourney at the Rockaway Hunting Club." The New York Times. New York. p. 70. Retrieved 8 April 2023.