Using your knowledge of Princeton Tennis and its players, and/or the “Winners” Menu can you find:
3. Has the same team ever won in multiple years?
Based on your knowledge of Princeton and/or using the Princeton Historical Society website:
4. When, where, and why did tennis first start being played in Princeton?
Look for more questions and these answers next Wednesday.
Trivia Answers 8/5
1. Who has won the most mixed titles?
It’s a tie! Rusty Sampson and Pauline Smith have each won the mixed 6 times, but never together.
2. Which private tennis court became a club court and in what year?
Princeton Tennis Club (PTC) began in the late 1940’s and early ’50’s when Dan Hart, Joe O’Connor, and others who approached the Sturges family (today the Crowley Court) about using their clay court. The Sturges family was only in Princeton for one month during the summer, therefore, this group agreed to do all the court set-up, maintenance, and the closing of the court in exchange for being able to use it. They even had lights installed with a meter run by quarters.
In the early ’60’s some of this same group and others (Al Howe, Bill Claghorn, Carl Apthorp) helped the Bice family build a single court perpendicular to Goodnow Road on some of their wet and rocky lower land. When the Bice’s decided to move out of town, this group organized with the name PTC, and they purchased the land and court from the Bice’s. The surface was a bit novel at the time. It was called stone dust, and they got it from Norton company as a useless byproduct. A few years later (1965), the membership had expanded and two courts were built parallel to the road. The fill used for building the original Bice court came from the widening of Hubbardston Road from Princeton Center to Allen Hill Road.