Hugh Jerome
Lynch
Male
United States of America
1913-00-00
, United States of America
1994-12-29
Bethseda, Md., United States of America
HUGH JEROME LYNCH JR., retired lawyer and amateur tennis player, died Dec. 29, 1994, of cardiac arrest. Since 1949, he had lived in Bethesda, Md.
A cofounder of the firm Macleay & Lynch in Washington, Hub specialized in insurance and transportation law. He retired in 1977. In the 1930s and 1940s, he won six Middle Atlantic States Tennis Championships and a singles title in the District of Columbia. In 1959, he won the national seniors' clay-court doubles championship, and in 1961, with son Hub III '64, he won the national father-son doubles title, He won the Canadian national senior doubles in 1965 and the U.S. national senior platform doubles in 1972.
He recently wrote, "It has been a happy life, stemming principally from having married a wonderful girl and being a member of the Class of 1934." His wife of 57 years, Barbara (Bean), survives, as do a daughter, Patricia; four sons, Hugh, Thomas, John, and Robert; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies
1933 - 1961
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1938 - Washington City Championships (Amateur)
Round 1
Bobby Siska 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-0
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Donald Dell 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-1
6-0
Round 4
Robert (Bob) Bortner 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
5-7
8-6
6-1
Semifinals
Barnard Welsh 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
?
Round 2
William (Bill) Umstaedter 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-4
6-3
Round 3
Frank Parker 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-0
6-0
Round 3
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
Charles Channing
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
Richard T. Murphy
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
David S. Johnsen
6-0
6-3
Final
Barnard Welsh 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
1-6
6-1
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Edward De Gray 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
8-6
5-7
6-0
Round 1
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
William Freisenbruch
6-0
6-1
6-3
Round 2
Mervyn Gerald Weston 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-4
6-3
4-6
7-5
Round 2
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
J.M. Worthington
6-2
6-4
Round 3
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
David Burt
4-6
6-4
6-4
Quarterfinals
Charles Hare 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
Melvin Tarpley
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
Albert C. (Allie) Ritzenberg
6-2
6-1
Final
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
James A. (Jim) Farrin
6-0
6-0
6-3
Round 3
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
H. Weeks
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Robert Strain 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Henry Culley 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-4,6-3,6-4
Round 2
Gerard B. (Jeff) Podesta 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-4
4-6
6-4
Round 1
Charles Mattmann 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
4-6,7-5,6-4,4-6,6-0
Round 2
Hugh Jerome Lynch 1 *
John Richard Law
6-3
6-3
Round 3
Gardnar Mulloy 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
7-9
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Frank Joseph Rericha 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-2
5-7
7-5
Round 2
Lawrence Kurzrok 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
4-6
5-7
6-2
6-0
6-2
Round 2
Jiro Satoh 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
6-4
8-6
6-4
Final
Lawrence Kurzrok 1 *
Hugh Jerome Lynch
7-5
7-5
6-3