Andrew Drew

Portrait of Drew from 1913

Andrew I. Drew ( February 1885 in Missouri , † June 12, 1913 in Lima , Ohio ) was an American tennis player .

biography

Andrew Drew's father became a millionaire banker and founded the Aero Club of St. Louis with Albert Bond Lambert in 1877 . Andrew Drew was a member of the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association and the Missouri Athletic Club, and despite the family's wealth, worked for a local newspaper.

In 1904 he took part in the tennis competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis . In the singles he did not get beyond the second round after a bye at the start, where he was defeated by Hugh Jones 4-6, 1-6. In doubles , he also competed alongside Douglas Turner . They lost again in their first match against Joseph Wear and Allen West . No other athletic results from Drew are known.

As a proponent of flying and as a balloonist , Drew was a student of Orville Wright , with whom he learned to fly from August 1911 in Dayton , Ohio . He later also became a teacher for his friend Max Lillie . He was director of Cicero Field in Chicago from early to October 1912 and later opened his own flight school in San Antonio , Texas . From there he went to Mexico for some time to report on the Huerta Revolution for his newspaper .

In 1913, he died on a test flight with a biplane when the aircraft's gas tank exploded and he crashed.

Web links

Andrew Drew in the database of Olympedia.org (English)