Historical Notes - Past Champions - Championship Records

 

Communist Party organized in China

Gandhi imprisoned for civil disobedience

Liquor prohibited on all ships in port

1922

Jess W. Sweetser, of the Siwanoy Country Club, Bronxville, N.Y., 20, defeated all the established players: defender Guilford, Bob Jones, Charles Evans, Jr., and Willie Hunter at The Country Club, Brookline, Mass. in September. He defeated Evans, 3 and 2, in the final, and in a brilliantly played semi-final match he eliminated Bob Jones, 8 and 7.