Back to TopPeggy Stanton (left) and long-time partner Charlotte Lee.
Gordon Gray and Jesse Sammis fell short again and were defeated by Bradley Drowne and William Scarlett.
Charlotte Lee and Peggy Stanton1 repeated in the Women’s, as did Gordon Gray and Anne Symmers in the Mixed, and George Lowman and Bill Pardoe in the Men’s 50+.
Cogswell's daughter, Do Deland, was a finalist in the Women's and his grandson, Rawle Deland, Jr., was the Junior Boy's finalist
Source: Oliver H. Durrell The Official Guide to Platform Tennis, 1967; and APTA Platform Paddle Tennis 1963-1973: Rules and Records, 1973
Note 1: Margaret G. (“Peggy”) Stanton was a major contributor to the advancement of women’s platform tennis and a distinguished player. Besides winning the Women’s Nationals with Lee from 1967 through 1970, she went on to win two Senior Women’s Nationals in 1974 and 1977. She was the first female on the Board of Directors of the APTA
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Ambassador Walter Stoessel, a keen player and lover of the game, introduced the game to Warsaw when he was appointed US Ambassador there in 1968.
They had been initiated in the game at the Chevy Chase Club in Washington, D.C. and while they were far from expert they loved the game and thought it would be ideal in the long Polish winters.
Using plans Supplied by APTA, they built a wooden court at the American Embassy in Warsaw. It worked, although it was quite a hybrid. The wood was obtained locally, the wire came from West Germany, and the lights were regular Warsaw street lights.
The game caught on rapidly and was played enthusiastically by members of the American community in Warsaw and their friends in the foreign community.
In 1970 he sent a letter to Paul Molloy, APTA President, enclosing a picture taken on February 20, 1970 before the inaugural game on the Warsaw Emba[...]
Oscar F. Moore served as President of the APTA from 1946-1948, which proved to be important growth years. He was credited with developing the mixed Scrambles or Jamboree, a format that gave the game much of its social overtones and proved to be very popular. Few people gave so much of their time and energy, or were so dedicated to platform tennis. (Fox Meadow Tennis Club).
Bob Kingsbury, the son of FMTC President Ollie Kingsbury (1965-1966) captured an enviable number of club tennis and platform tennis crowns.
In tennis he won the Singles five times - 1966-1967, 1969-1970 and 1975, and the same number in Doubles - 1962 (with his brother) and 1969-1971 (with Zan Carver). In Mixed Doubles he won six championships all with his wife, Clare - 1968, 1970-1973, and 1975-1976.
Teamed with Zan Carver, Kingsbury won the club Men's platform tennis title five years running, from 1968 to 1972, and the Mixed Doubles six times, again all with Clare - 1970-1974 and 1976.
In APTA National championships, he and partner John Mangan of Manursing Island Club were Men's Doubles runners-up in 1970 and 1971 before clinching the title in 1972 at Fox Meadow, and again in 1973 in Cleveland.
Kingsbury served as APTA President from 1978-80 and was inducted into the Pla[...]
Sally Barnes Bondurant was another of the second-generation paddle players to emerge in winners' lists in the 1960s. With her mother, Helen Barnes, Bondurant took the Club Women's Doubles title in 1968.
Paired with Spencer Brent, son of Old Army Athlete Rufus Brent, she collected the Mixed Doubles championship.
Bondurant paired with various partners to win most of the Club's member and invitational tournaments in 1968.
Bondurant, along with her sister, Lucie Bel, had an impressive tennis career as a junior (see The Barnes Sisters and ended up compiling an even better record on the tennis courts winning the Singles title four times - 1965 and 1967-1969 and the Doubles three times - 1965-1967, the last two with her mother.
Source: Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club-The First Hundred Years, 1983
Although she won twenty club titles in tennis and paddle, as well as two APTA titles, one in Women's Doubles and one in Mixed Doubles, and was inducted into The Platform Tennis Hall of Fame in 1966, Barbara Koegel is remembered best at Fox Meadow for the help and encouragement she gave to other players, as opposed to her own play. As coach of the Paddle Pals at FMTC in the 1950s and 1960s, she made it fun to work hard at improving one's game.
Barbara’s husband, William F. Koegel, served as President of FMTC from 1973-1975.
Source: Adapted from Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years, 1983
Several ladies chairmen gave credit for team play in the late 1950s and the 1960s to Koegel. When Barbara coached Paddle Pals, says Delsa Wilson, she instilled a competitive spirit by constantly telling the players, "You have to want the ball to come to you." Dotsi[...]
Malloy had been very close to the game for many years but, despite this, in his farewell remarks as President, he said, “….there is no way I can picture where our game will be 10 years from now. The instant appeal of the game is so great that it is impossible to estimate how long the accelerated growth will last and how far it will spread."
Under his leadership the first newsletter was created to keep players informed of activities throughout the year and much work was done in scheduling and coordinating tournaments and satellite events in recognition of the new areas of growth in the game and their demand for tournament paddle. National rankings had also been established by the end of his term, with Hennessey donating cups to the individual man and woman gaining the most points from ranking tournament play. With the upsurge in women’s play, he was also instrumental in getting[...]
Back to TopGordon Gray (1933-2007) was one of the top male players from the late 1960s to the 1970s. He was the recipient of the APTA Honor Award in 1973 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1996.
CBS had coverage of the National Mixed Doubles narrated by Heywood Halle Broun, Jr.
The newsletter leads off:
“The Executive Committee of the APTA has thought for a long time that a periodic newsletter on the game of Platform Tennis is in order and would be of interest to the membership. Accordingly, the following is our first attempt at such a newsletter, and we welcome contributions to it. Same should be sent to Brook Kindred, 10 Brook Lane, Scarsdale, New York 10583.”
The newsletter went on to cover the National Boys’ tournament (won by the Baird brothers) and the results of the Cleveland Invitational, Connecticut State Men’s, and Long Island Invitational. It also reprinted an article from the in-flight magazine American Way on paddle tennis.
The newsletter was edited by Fox Meadow member, Brook Kindred for four years
The foot-fault revision was unofficially known as the “Kimberly Rule,” after Kim Kimberly who took a running leap at the ball, ignoring the baseline and violating most rules, however modified. He was fun to watch though!
The First APTA newsletter carried a discussion on foot-faults and the let rule if a ball was bounced out of the court.
"Foot-Faults
At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee, the foot fault rule was discussed ad infinitum due to the flagrant violation of it by numerous players who are beating their serve to the net. To reiterate, the APTA foot-fault rule is a direct copy of' the USLTA rule:
The server shall throughout the delivery of' the serve:
A. Not change his position by walking or running.
B. Not touch, with either foot, any area other than that behind the baseline within the imaginary extension of' the center mark or sideline.
Section A w[...]
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