Robert Lindley Murray: The Reluctant U.S. Tennis Champion: Includes "The First Forty Years of American Tennis"

Robert Lindley “Lin” Murray, a middle-distance runner and tennis player and a Phi Beta Kappa chemical engineer at Stanford University, went east after graduating in 1914 to play tennis. He beat the top intercollegiate players, won several tournaments, and earned a fourth place national ranking. Murray won the 1916 U.S. Indoor title and joined Hooker Electrochemical in Niagara Falls, New York. Reluctant to play in the 1917 and 1918 national championships due to wartime contracts, Murray was persuaded by Hooker’s president to play and he won them both, the latter over Bill Tilden. Murray rose through the ranks of Hooker to president, CEO, and chairman of the board and was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame a year before retiring.

Leading into Murray’s exploits is a concise history of tennis, when and where the game was introduced to the United States, and American tennis through Lin Murray’s brief but brilliant career. Also included is a review of California tennis and the significant impact of its players during the second decade of the twentieth century. The book concludes with short biographies of Murray’s female and male contemporaries, before shorts and skirts replaced flannels and petticoats.

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Robert Lindley Murray: The Reluctant U.S. Tennis Champion: Includes "The First Forty Years of American Tennis"

Robert Lindley “Lin” Murray, a middle-distance runner and tennis player and a Phi Beta Kappa chemical engineer at Stanford University, went east after graduating in 1914 to play tennis. He beat the top intercollegiate players, won several tournaments, and earned a fourth place national ranking. Murray won the 1916 U.S. Indoor title and joined Hooker Electrochemical in Niagara Falls, New York. Reluctant to play in the 1917 and 1918 national championships due to wartime contracts, Murray was persuaded by Hooker’s president to play and he won them both, the latter over Bill Tilden. Murray rose through the ranks of Hooker to president, CEO, and chairman of the board and was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame a year before retiring.

Leading into Murray’s exploits is a concise history of tennis, when and where the game was introduced to the United States, and American tennis through Lin Murray’s brief but brilliant career. Also included is a review of California tennis and the significant impact of its players during the second decade of the twentieth century. The book concludes with short biographies of Murray’s female and male contemporaries, before shorts and skirts replaced flannels and petticoats.

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Robert Lindley Murray: The Reluctant U.S. Tennis Champion: Includes

Robert Lindley Murray: The Reluctant U.S. Tennis Champion: Includes "The First Forty Years of American Tennis"

by Roger W. Ohnsorg
Robert Lindley Murray: The Reluctant U.S. Tennis Champion: Includes

Robert Lindley Murray: The Reluctant U.S. Tennis Champion: Includes "The First Forty Years of American Tennis"

by Roger W. Ohnsorg

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Robert Lindley “Lin” Murray, a middle-distance runner and tennis player and a Phi Beta Kappa chemical engineer at Stanford University, went east after graduating in 1914 to play tennis. He beat the top intercollegiate players, won several tournaments, and earned a fourth place national ranking. Murray won the 1916 U.S. Indoor title and joined Hooker Electrochemical in Niagara Falls, New York. Reluctant to play in the 1917 and 1918 national championships due to wartime contracts, Murray was persuaded by Hooker’s president to play and he won them both, the latter over Bill Tilden. Murray rose through the ranks of Hooker to president, CEO, and chairman of the board and was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame a year before retiring.

Leading into Murray’s exploits is a concise history of tennis, when and where the game was introduced to the United States, and American tennis through Lin Murray’s brief but brilliant career. Also included is a review of California tennis and the significant impact of its players during the second decade of the twentieth century. The book concludes with short biographies of Murray’s female and male contemporaries, before shorts and skirts replaced flannels and petticoats.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781426945137
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication date: 02/03/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

As a ceramic engineer with an MBA, Roger W. Ohnsorg worked at Carborundum in Niagara Falls, New York, before retiring in 1997. His primary sports avocations are competitive tennis and racquetball. He is the author of two books on local history, Goat Island Bridges and Niagara Falls and Frontier Tennis.
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