Action Shot of America's First Two Collegiate Tennis
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Albumen photograph, 5.5 x 7.75 in., on 6.25 x 8.5. in. mount. Inscribed in the negative Tailer vs. Clark/ #28/ Lenox Tournament/ Sept. 15th, 1887.
Clark is Joseph Sill Clark, Sr., who won the very first United States collegiate tennis singles and doubles titles, representing Harvard, in the spring of 1883, served as the president of the USTA (then the US National Lawn Tennis Association) from 1889 to 1891, and was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1955 (at which time he was also the oldest practicing attorney in Philadelphia). "Tailer" is Howard A. Taylor, Clark's doubles partner at Harvard when they became the inaugural doubles champions and the second US collegiate singles champion, taking the title in the fall of 1883. The tournament pictured took place at the Lenox Club in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.
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