National Championships

The awards presentation at the 1956 Men’s Nationals (from left): George Harrison, Bill Pardoe, Ted Cook (APTA president and tournament chair), Don McNeill, and Herman Schaefer
The awards presentation at the 1956 Men’s Nationals (from left): George Harrison, Bill Pardoe, Ted Cook (APTA president and tournament chair), Don McNeill, and Herman Schaefer
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1956

In the Men’s Harrison and Pardoe won their first of their two titles.

Sally Childress Auxford teamed up with Barbara Koegel and got the best of her sister, Madge Beck, and her partner, Blanchard’s daughter, Ruth Walker.

The Mixed was a repeat of the 1955 final but this time Hebard and Madge Beck won.

Source: Fessenden S. Blanchard, Platform Paddle Tennis, 1959