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Forty-five years after the founding of the club, first President Thomas Burgess stands at left for a family portrait in Colonel Alexander B. Crane's entrance hall

Forty-five years after the founding of the club, first Preside...

Photograph and caption covering the inaugural Men's Nationals finals in 1935 at Fox Meadow.

Photograph and caption covering the inaugural Men's Nationals ...

A busy day at Fox Meadow in the late 1930s. Platform tennis, hockey, and figure skating kept members out of mischief

A busy day at Fox Meadow in the late 1930s. Platform tennis, h...

Men's Champions 1956 - George Harrison (left) and Bill Pardoe. They repeated in 1960.

Men's Champions 1956 - George Harrison (left) and Bill Pardoe....

Progress on the new wing

Progress on the new wing

George Harrison and William Pardoe at Fox Meadow Tennis Club, Scarsdale, NY

George Harrison and William Pardoe at Fox Meadow Tennis Club, ...

Gordon Gray from Greenwich, Connecticut, was one of the top male players from the late 1960s to the 1970s

Gordon Gray from Greenwich, Connecticut, was one of the top ma...

Tribuno World Championships at Forest Hills -Howard Cosell, always a popular and colorful commentator, was the chair for the finals that was broadcast on NBC. Play was temporarily suspended during the windy final when Cosell’s toupee blew onto the court.

Tribuno World Championships at Forest Hills -Howard Cosell, al...

Dick Squires is interviewed at the Tribuno World Championship for Connecticut Public Television.

Dick Squires is interviewed at the Tribuno World Championship ...

1982 Women’s Nationals (from left): Robin Rich Fulton and Pat Lurie (finalists) with Yvonne Hackenberg and Hilary Hilton Marold (winners)

1982 Women’s Nationals (from left): Robin Rich Fulton and Pa...

Chuck Vasoll's N.Y. license plate proudly proclaims the car owner to be a Platform Tennis enthusiast. Vasoll served as APTA President from 1988-1992.

Chuck Vasoll's N.Y. license plate proudly proclaims the car ow...

Greg Moore (left) with Hank Irvine, winners of the 1986 and 1987 Men’s Nationals.

Greg Moore (left) with Hank Irvine, winners of the 1986 and 19...

Earle Gatchell on the Cogswell court ca. 1930

Earle Gatchell on the Cogswell court ca. 1930

Ladies in cumbersome ankle-length skirts and their bearded gentlemen friends on the courts of the Scarsdale Lawn Tennis Club in the 1890s

Ladies in cumbersome ankle-length skirts and their bearded gen...

APTA Executive Director, Gloria Dillenbeck, presenting 1976 National Boy's finalist prizes to Sol Hauptman and Jeff Fleitman

APTA Executive Director, Gloria Dillenbeck, presenting 1976 Na...

James P. Gordon, right, and his mentor, Charles H. Townes, with a mazer in the mid 1950s. Gordon was the son of Fox Meadow President Robert S Gordon (1942)

James P. Gordon, right, and his mentor, Charles H. Townes, wit...