1908 Summer Olympics / Jeu de Paume

Jeu de Paume at the 1908 Olympic Games
information
venue	London
Competition venue	Queen's Club
Nations	2
Athletes	11 (11 )
date	18.-23. May 1908
decisions	1

At the IV Olympic Games in London in 1908 , a competition was held in the Jeu de Paume . The venue was the Queen's Club in the London borough of West Kensington . This sport was Olympic only once; an open-air variant called Longue Paume was a demonstration sport in 1900. Real tennis , as Jeu de Paume is called in Great Britain, was again a demonstration sport in 1928.

Classification

space	country	player
1	United States	George Jay Gould II
2	GBR	Eustace Miles
3	GBR	Neville Bulwer-Lytton
4th	GBR	Arthur Page
5	GBR	Edwin Biedermann
7th	GBR	Evan Baillie Noel
	GBR	Arthur Palmer
	GBR	Vane Pennell

Date: May 19-23, 1908
11 participants from 2 countries

Results

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

George Jay Gould II

6th

6th

6th

Vane Pennell

3

3

2

George Jay Gould II

6th

6th

6th

Arthur Page

1

0

0

Arthur Palmer

6th

4th

5

1

Arthur Page

5

6th

6th

6th

George Jay Gould II

6th

6th

6th

Eustace Miles

5

4th

4th

Evan Baillie Noel

5

1

5

Eustace Miles

6th

6th

6th

Eustace Miles

6th

6th

6th

Neville Bulwer-Lytton

4th

1

3

3rd place match

Edwin Biedermann

5

1

2

Neville Bulwer-Lytton

6th

6th

6th

Arthur Page

4th

4th

4th

Neville Bulwer-Lytton

6th

6th

6th

Web links

• Jeu de Paume at the 1908 Olympic Games in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1908 (PDF, 12.4 MB)