Arthur Wallis Myers

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Myers (ca.1921)

Arthur Wallis Myers (born July 24, 1878 in Kettering , † June 16, 1939 in Berrow near Epsom , County Surrey ) was a British tennis player and sports journalist from England .

Life

Myers, son of a pastor, took part in tennis tournaments from 1903. In 1912 and 1913 and in 1920 and 1921 he took part in the Wimbledon Championships in singles, but never got beyond the second round.

From 1909 until his death he worked as a tennis correspondent for the Daily Telegraph . He also wrote regularly for the sports magazine The Field . He has also published several books, including a biography of four-time Wimbledon winner Anthony Wilding .

During the First World War he worked for the British Ministry of Information from 1917 , for which he was later appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

He died in Berrow near Epson in 1939 .

Works

  • Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad. Scribner's Sons, London 1903. ( online )
  • The Complete Lawn Tennis Player. George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia 1908. ( online )
  • The story of the Davis Cup (the International Lawn Tennis Championship). Methuen & Co., London 1913.
  • Captain Anthony Wilding. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1916. ( online )
  • Twenty Years of Lawn Tennis: Some Personal Memories. Methuen & Co., London 1921. ( online )
  • Fifty Years of Wimbledon: The Story of the Lawn Tennis Championships. All England Club, Wimbledon 1926.
  • Lawn Tennis, its Principles & Practice: A Player's Guide to Modern Methods. .B. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1930.
  • Memory's Parade. Methuen & Co., London 1932.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Wallace Myers. tennisarchives.com, accessed on October 26, 2012 (English).
  2. ^ History of the IC. (No longer available online.) International Lawn Tennis Club of Gerat Britain, archived from the original on January 4, 2013 ; accessed on October 26, 2012 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Myers, Arthur Wallis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Myers, A. Wallis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English tennis player and sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Kettering , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1939
Place of death Berrow , Epsom , Surrey County , England , United Kingdom