Fritz Felix Pipes

Fritz Felix Pipes medal table
tennis
Austria
Olympic Summer Games
silver	1912 Stockholm	Double (lawn)

Fritz Felix Pipes , also called Piepes , also called Jim , Jimmy or Bedřich , (born April 15, 1887 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † January 20, 1983 in Seattle , United States ) was an Austrian tennis and ice hockey player .

Pipes entered the 1908 Olympic Games in singles and doubles. In the singles he lost in the first round to Oscar Kreuzer . He was registered in doubles with Arthur Zborzil and had a bye in the first two rounds. It wasn't until the quarterfinals that the two had to compete for the first time and lost to the later Olympic runners-up James Parke and Josiah Ritchie from the United Kingdom.

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm Pipes won the singles in the first round, but was eliminated in the second round against the South African Eric Tapscott . In doubles he reached the final with Zborzil, where the two lost against the South Africans Charles Winslow and Harold Kitson on grass in four sets with 6: 4, 1: 6, 2: 6, 2: 6. The silver medal from Pipes and Zborzil is the only Olympic tennis medal for Austria to this day.

Felix Pipes was an active member of the Austrian Tennis Association (ÖTV) founded in 1902 .

Pipes played ice hockey for the DEHG Prague team from 1907 to 1913 . With this he won the international Austrian championship for the Ringhoffer Cup in 1911 and the Bohemian runner-up in 1912 . In 1912 and 1913 he played with DEHG Prague as a representative of Austria at the European ice hockey championship .

His brother Franz Pipes was also a tennis and ice hockey player and played tennis and ice hockey with Fritz Doppel at DEHG Prague.

A few days before Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany in 1939, the Jewish Pipes and his wife fled to the USA. They lived briefly in New York , but then moved to Seattle, where Pipes lived until his death.

Web links

• Fritz-Felix Pipes in the Olympedia database
• 100 years of ÖTV