Charles Edward
Sands
Male
United States of America
1865-12-22
New York, United States of America
1945-08-09
Brookville, New York, United States of America
Charles Sands is one of only two American men to have competed in three different Olympic sports (The other is Frank Kugler in athletics, weightlifting, and wrestling – Sheila Taormina also accomplished this in swimming, triathlon, and modern pentathlon). In October 1900, Sands shot rounds of 81-84 to win the first Olympic golf championship. He probably didn’t care as golf was not his favorite, or best, sport, even though he had finished second in the first U.S. Amateur ever held – in 1895.
Charles Sands was primarily a court tennis player. He was the only American to win the Racquette d’Or, which he received at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris in 1899 and 1900. In 1905 he won his only American championship in court tennis, although by then he was a three-time winner of the Racquette d’Or. In 1908, court tennis was an Olympic sport, under the original French name of jeu de paume. Sands played, but lost in the first round. It was not his first appearance in Olympic tennis. In 1900, while he had been in Paris for the Racquette d’Or competition, he had played in the Olympic lawn tennis event, but lost in the early rounds. Sands only other lawn tennis result of note was making the quarter-finals of the men’s singles at the 1894 US Championships.
Sands was a US national in 1900 but entered the tennis events while representing Tennis Club de Puteaux of France. In golf he played out of the St. Andrews Golf Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
1886 - 1911
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70
31
1894 - Hudson River Championships (Amateur)
1894 - Amackassin Club Invitation (Amateur)
1891 - Middle States Championships (Amateur)
1890 - Northwestern Championships (Amateur)
1890 - Maplewood Hotel amateur Tournament (Amateur)
1889 - Hudson River Championships (Amateur)
1889 - New Hamburg (Amateur)
Preliminary Round
G.H. Bartholomew 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Preliminary Round
R. Richardson 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Round 1
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Thomas S. Blumer
w.o.
Round 2
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
N.M. Vose
6-1
6-2
6-4
Round 3
Karl Howell Behr jr 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Round 1
Rodolphe Louis Agassiz 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Round 1
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Richard Augustine van Nest Gambrill
6-0
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Stanley P. Henshaw
6-3
6-1
6-4
Round 3
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
J.R. Fowler
6-2
6-2
6-2
Round 4
Bill Larned 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-1
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Edward Tudor Gross
7-5
3-6
6-2
7-5
Round 2
Harry F. Allen 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
7-5
6-3
6-1
Round 1
William Jackson Clothier 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-4
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
George A. Lyon Jr.
6-4
2-6
6-4
Semifinals
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Frederick Campbell Colston
6-2
4-6
8-6
Final
Robert Leroy jr 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Henry J. Holt jr
w.o.
Round 3
William Jackson Clothier 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-2
4-6
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Dwight Filley Davis sr 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
5-7
6-4
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Jacques François Marie Worth 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Round 1
Jahial (John) Parmly Paret 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Harold Segerson Mahony 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Major Josiah George Ritchie 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Harold Segerson Mahony
w.o.
Round 2
Walter R. Martin 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-4
6-2
Semifinals
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Archibald Adam Warden
Final
Paul Aymé 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
6-0
7-5
Round 2
Paul Aymé 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Round 1
Malcolm Greene Chace 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-2
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Ralph Waldo Hickox
6-2
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Sydney L. Smith
4-6
6-3
6-2
6-1
Round 3
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Deane B. Miller
6-1
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Malcolm Greene Chace 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
7-5
6-2
7-5
Final
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Carman Randolph Runyon
6-2
6-4
8-6
Round 1
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Joseph Sill Clark
6-4
6-2
4-6
6-3
Round 2
Edward Ludlow (Eddie) Hall Jr. 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
10-8
3-6
6-0
4-6
6-3
Challenge Round
Richard W. Stevens 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
6-3
6-1
Round 1
Jahial (John) Parmly Paret 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Poule
Richard W. Stevens 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
2-6
6-3
3-6
6-3
Poule
Edward Ludlow (Eddie) Hall Jr. 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-0
6-4
6-0
Poule
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
L.R. Parker
10-12
8-6
6-2
3-6
6-4
Preliminary Round
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Jahial (John) Parmly Paret
6-3
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Edward Ludlow (Eddie) Hall Jr.
6-2
6-3
6-3
Final
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Richard W. Stevens
2-6
5-7
8-6
6-1
6-0
Challenge Round
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Howard Augustus Taylor
w.o.
Round 1
Charles Prentice Howland 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Poule
Wallace Percy Knapp 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-1
8-10
7-5
Poule
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
James Ford Coleman Huntington
3-6
6-3
6-3
Poule
Howard Augustus Taylor 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
6-2
Final
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Henry Warner Slocum Jr.
5-7
6-4
6-3
Challenge Round
Howard Augustus Taylor 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-1
6-2
6-2
Challenge Round
Valentine Gill Hall 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-4
9-7
6-3
Preliminary Round
Frederick (Fred) W. Smith 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Final
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
Mr. Hawley
4-6
6-0
6-0
Challenge Round
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
George Kimball Belden
6-5
7-5
8-6
Round 1
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
L.L. Hopkins
7-5
1-6
6-4
Quarterfinals
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
C.A. Hardy
6-3
3-6
6-1
Semifinals
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
A.W. Cobb
6-2
6-1
Final
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
E.P. Gates
6-1
6-4
4-6
6-3
Round 1
Ernest George Meers 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-4
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Howard Augustus Taylor 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
2-6
6-2
6-3
6-2
Round 1
W.R. Weeden 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
5-7
6-2
Round 2
Howard Augustus Taylor 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-1
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Robert Livingston Beeckman 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-3
5-6
6-3
Round 1
Clarence Hobart 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-1
6-0
Preliminary Round
Charles Edward Sands 1 *
William Austin Tomes
6-5
6-4
Round 1
Howard Augustus Taylor 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
4-6
6-5
6-2
Round 1
Valentine Gill Hall 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
w.o.
Round 1
Lewis Henry Paddock 1 *
Charles Edward Sands
6-4
5-6
6-1