John R. Moses ( – 1981)

Moses was one of the earliest good “young” players of the game in the early 1940s and ‘50s.

He had been the #1 ranked junior tennis player in the nation and, at nineteen, he was the youngest person ever to be a finalist in the APTA National men’s doubles.

He won the APTA Men’s doubles title at the age of 23, again the youngest ever to attain that distinction. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1976.

At the time of his death after a long illness, John had retired to East Boothbay, Maine, in the same area where his family had summered for several generations.

Source: Platform Tennis News, January 1982