Malcolm Whitman
Malcolm Douglass " time " Whitman ( born March 15, 1877 in New York City; † December 28, 1932 ) was an American tennis player and three -time winner of the U.S. championships from 1898 until 1900.
Life
Whitman was born in 1877 in New York and studied law at Harvard University. After he had already fought in the American championships in 1896 and 1897 to the quarter finals, he defeated in 1898 in the final of Dwight Davis and won his first title. The following year he defended the title against the challenger Parmly Paret. After he had prevailed over concerns of his father who asked him the tennis racket set aside and concentrate on his studies, he entered 1900 again and was able to defend his title again.
Whitman took beside his fellow Davis and Holcombe Ward at the first edition of the Davis Cup, then a country duel between the U.S. and the UK, in Boston part. There he won his match against Arthur Gore, the U.S. team finally won 3-0. After the Davis Cup had been canceled in the following year, he played again in the 1902 Davis Cup, which the U.S. could decide for themselves. Also in this year, he won both of his singles match against Joshua Pim and Reginald Doherty. He then ended his tennis career.
Later, Whitman worked as a member of the Executive Board of the American Tennis Association USTA.
In the last years of his life he focused on tennis history, which he published in 1932 a book. In it, he argued that Mary Outerbridge 've played the first modern tennis on American soil. This is now regarded as doubtful. In December of the same year Whitman suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of which he committed suicide. The year before his daughter died of pneumonia. In 1955 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.