Beals Coleman
Wright
Male
United States of America
1879-12-19
Boston, United States of America
1961-08-23
Alton, Il, United States of America
Beals was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of George Wright, shortstop for the Cincinnati Red Stockings and founder of the sporting goods store Wright & Ditson.[2] He was the nephew of baseball pioneer Harry Wright. In 1899 Beals Wright travelled with his father to California where he played at the Delmonte Tennis Championship in Monterey. George Wright managed the team the same year he coached at Harvard. Two Harvard University players participated in the DelMonte Tournament-the first time east coast players took on California tennis champions.[citation needed]
Wright played at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and won gold medals in both the singles and doubles competition.[3] He also won three consecutive singles titles (1904?1906) at the tournament now known as the Cincinnati Masters, and reached the doubles final (with Edgar Leonard) in 1904.
Wright won the Canadian Tennis Championship, played in Niagara-on-the-Lake, in 1902, 1903 and 1904.[4] In 1902 he won the Niagara International Tennis Tournament, also played in Niagara-on-the-Lake, by defeating Harold Hackett in the final in five sets and the default of Raymond Little in the challenge round.[5]
Wright's most important victory came in 1905 when he won the men's singles title at the U.S. National Championships by defeating reigning champion Holcombe Ward in the Challenge Round in straight sets 6?2, 6?1, 11?9.[6]
Beals was the brother of Irving Wright, the 1917 and 1918 U.S. Championship men's doubles champion. Together they won the men's doubles title at the Canadian Tennis Championship four times (1902, 1903, 1904, 1905).[4]
Beals Wright was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1956. He died in Alton, Illinois.[7]
1894 - 1923
14
234
174
1923 - Bahamas International (Open)
1910 - Kent Championships (Open)
1910 - Northern Lawn Tennis Association Tournament (Open)
1910 - European Championship (Amateur)
1906 - Cincinnati (ATP)
1905 - Cincinnati (ATP)
1905 - US Open (Grandslam)
1904 - Cincinnati (ATP)
1904 - Olympics, Olympic Games (Olympic Games)
1904 - Canadian International Championships ()
1903 - Canadian International Championships ()
1902 - Niagara International Tournament (Amateur)
1902 - Canadian International Championships ()
1899 - Wentworth Invitation (Amateur)
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Philip Bovier Hawk
6-2
6-1
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
G. Carlton Shafer
7-5
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Robert L. James
w.o.
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Benjamin F. Drake
6-0
6-0
6-2
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Lindsay Dunham
6-4
6-2
6-3
Round 4
Ichiya Kumagae 1 *
Beals Wright
8-6
3-6
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Stanley P. Henshaw 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Preliminary Round
Beals Wright 1 *
J.G. Alexander
6-0
6-1
6-0
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
William P. Hunt
6-0
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Walter S. Anderson
6-0
6-1
6-2
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
George A. Lyon Jr.
6-3
6-4
6-4
Round 4
Beals Wright 1 *
Cyril Kingston Floyd Andrewes
6-1
4-6
6-4
6-2
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Nathaniel Niles
6-8
1-6
6-3
10-8
7-5
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Tom Bundy
6-4
6-3
6-1
Final
Maurice McLoughlin 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
4-6
7-5
6-3
Round 1
Hugh Marsh 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Poule
Norman Brookes 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
2-6
6-3
6-3
Poule
Rodney Heath 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Walter Cecil Crawley
6-1
7-5
3-6
6-2
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Gordon Lowe
6-1
6-3
6-0
Round 4
Beals Wright 1 *
Geoffrey Dorling Roberts
6-1
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Robert Powell
6-3
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Arthur Lowe
6-3
3-6
6-4
6-4
Final
Tony Wilding 1 *
Beals Wright
4-6
4-6
6-3
6-2
6-3
Preliminary Round
Beals Wright 1 *
William Rosenbaum
6-3
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
George Church
7-5
3-6
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Nathaniel Niles
6-4
3-6
6-3
6-3
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Ruben Andrus Holden III
6-3
7-5
9-7
Round 4
Beals Wright 1 *
Malcolm Greene Chace
6-1
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Maurice McLoughlin
6-3
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Edward H. Whitney
4-6
7-5
4-6
6-2
7-5
Final
Tom Bundy 1 *
Beals Wright
6-8
6-3
6-3
10-8
Round 2
Augustus Mark Hendricks 1 *
Beals Wright
5-7
7-5
ret.
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Augustus Mark Hendricks
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
George Alan Thomas
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Gordon Lowe
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Kenneth Powell
7-9
6-2
6-4
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Tony Wilding
w.o.
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Herbert Roper Barrett
4-6
7-5
12-10
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
F.A. Woodhouse
6-1
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
James Cecil Parke
2-6
2-6
8-6
6-4
6-0
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Xenophon Casdagli (Kasdaglis)
7-5
4-6
6-1
6-2
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Samuel Ernest (Ernest) Charlton
6-1
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
E. Paul
6-3
6-1
5-7
6-3
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Edward Carey
w.o.
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Walter Cecil Crawley
1-6
3-6
6-0
6-3
6-3
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
James Cecil Parke
divided
Wright
taking
the
cup
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Malcolm Greene Chace
6-3
6-1
6-4
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
William H. Connell
6-1
6-1
6-2
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Wallace Johnson
6-4
7-5
6-2
Round 4
Beals Wright 1 *
Carlton Hale
6-1
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Henry J. Torrance Jr.
6-3
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Nathaniel C. (Nat) Emerson
6-2
6-4
5-7
6-3
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Fred Alexander
6-3
6-3
6-3
Challenge Round
Bill Larned 1 *
Beals Wright
6-1
6-2
8-6
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Arthur Leeson Baird
7-5
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Percy Force Rowe 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Poule
Major Josiah George Ritchie 1 *
Beals Wright
6-1
6-3
6-2
Poule
Beals Wright 1 *
James Cecil Parke
8-10
3-6
6-4
7-5
6-2
Poule
Beals Wright 1 *
Norman Brookes
0-3
3-6
7-5
6-2
12-10
Poule
Beals Wright 1 *
Tony Wilding
3-6
7-5
6-3
6-1
Round 1
Tony Wilding 1 *
Beals Wright
6-2
8-6
7-5
Round 1
Gardner Beals 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 1
Francis John Childs (John) Ganzoni 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Challenge Round
Robert Leroy jr 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Otway Scarlett Graham Toler
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
W. G. Seymour
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Major Josiah George Ritchie 1 *
Beals Wright
6-0
6-0
Poule
Norman Brookes 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-4
6-2
Poule
Beals Wright 1 *
Tony Wilding
6-8
6-3
6-3
7-5
Round 1
Percy Douglas Fitton 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
William Godfrey Milburn
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Philip James Griffiths Pipon 1 *
Beals Wright
4-6
0-5
ret.
Challenge Round
William Jackson Clothier 1 *
Beals Wright
6-3
6-0
6-4
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Robert Leroy jr
6-4
6-4
4-6
4-6
6-2
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Charles François Simond
6-2
6-2
6-1
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Ernest George Parton
6-2
6-4
6-3
Round 4
Arthur Gore 1 *
Beals Wright
6-2
7-9
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Philip Lydig
default
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Wylie Grant
6-1
4-6
6-1
6-1
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Wallace Johnson
6-0
6-1
6-3
Round 4
Beals Wright 1 *
Harry F. Allen
6-2
6-0
6-4
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
William Jackson Clothier
9-7
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Bill Larned
4-6
6-3
6-2
6-2
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Clarence Hobart
6-4
6-1
6-3
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Holcombe Ward
6-1
6-2
11-9
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Kreigh Collins
6-3
7-5
4-6
7-9
6-3
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Henry Pollard
8-6
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Colin Charles Wyllie
6-3
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Roderick McNair
6-1
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Norman Brookes
3-6
4-6
6-4
6-4
6-1
Final
Holcombe Ward 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Poule
Beals Wright 1 *
Norman Brookes
12-10
5-7
12-10
6-4
Poule
Beals Wright 1 *
Tony Wilding
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Alexander Phelps
6-1
6-1
6-3
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Russell Newton Dana
1-6
6-2
6-3
6-3
Round 4
Beals Wright 1 *
Francis Jones (Frank) Sulloway
6-2
6-2
4-6
6-1
Quarterfinals
Bill Larned 1 *
Beals Wright
6-1
6-0
6-3
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Louis Harold (Henry) Waidner
6-1
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Forest Hill Montgomery
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
John Crosby Neely jr.
6-0
6-2
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Alphonzo Edward Bell sr
6-3
6-4
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Robert Leroy jr
6-4
6-4
Preliminary Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Herbert Ira Foster
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Elliott Middleton
6-2
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Mark Mitchell
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Arthur C. Snow
6-4
6-2
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Robert Leroy jr
7-5
8-6
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Louis Harold (Henry) Waidner
7-5
6-0
6-3
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Kreigh Collins
w.o.
Round 2
William Jackson Clothier 1 *
Beals Wright
4-6
6-4
6-4
6-1
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Edgar Welch Leonard
8-6
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Lewis Perry
7-5
6-0
7-5
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Robert Chauncey Seaver
6-2
6-4
6-3
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Bryan Morel Grant sr
6-2
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
John Davis Edmands, Snr. Jones
4-6
6-3
3-6
6-4
6-1
Semifinals
Holcombe Ward 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-4
6-2
Challenge Round
Edwin Philip Fischer 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
J.H. Ballinger
6-1
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Jahial (John) Parmly Paret
6-3
6-4
6-2
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
H.W. Warner
6-2
6-0
6-1
Round 4
Malcolm Douglass (Mal) Whitman 1 *
Beals Wright
6-3
4-6
6-3
7-5
Round 1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
A.N. MacDonald
6-2
6-4
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Alexander Tertius Carson McMaster
6-3
6-4
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Irving Christian Wright
6-3
6-3
3-6
6-1
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Bill Larned
w.o.
Round 1
Reginald Frank (Reggie) Doherty 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Hedley Massey Suckling
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Ernest Riddell Paterson
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Edwin Philip Fischer
6-1
6-2
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Harold Hackett
4-6
6-4
4-6
6-1
6-1
Challenge Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Raymond Little
w.o.
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Clinton Lowrie Childs
6-2
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Pennington Pierson
6-1
6-0
6-2
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Dwight Filley Davis sr
6-2
8-6
6-3
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Clarence Hobart
6-3
8-6
6-4
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Raymond Little
7-5
2-6
6-1
6-2
Final
Bill Larned 1 *
Beals Wright
6-2
6-8
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
A.N. MacDonald
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Clarence Hobart
6-3
6-4
Final
Bill Larned 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-4
6-2
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Horace Loftus Lawrie
w.o.
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Henry Johnston Carson
9-7
6-4
Quarterfinals
George Hillyard 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
3-6
6-4
Round 1
M. Porte 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
W.T. Leighton
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Wilfred Leonard Hollick
6-2
6-2
Round 3
George Hillyard 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Herbert Ira Foster
6-1
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Leonard Everett (Leo) Ware
6-3
6-2
6-4
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
Kreigh Collins
6-3
1-6
4-6
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Dwight Filley Davis sr
4-6
4-6
8-6
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Bill Larned 1 *
Beals Wright
11-9
8-6
1-6
6-3
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
William Graham Kilmaster
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Harry Eugene Avery
6-3
6-1
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Alexander Tertius Carson McMaster
6-8
6-0
6-4
Final
Bill Larned 1 *
Beals Wright
6-2
7-9
4-6
6-4
11-9
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
George H. Miles
3-6
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
John Stokes Morris
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Jahial (John) Parmly Paret
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Dwight Filley Davis sr 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
3-6
18-16
Preliminary Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Louis J. Grant
7-5
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Jahial (John) Parmly Paret
7-5
0-6
6-4
Quarterfinals
Calhoun C. Cragin 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Preliminary Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Irving Christian Wright
3-6
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
C. Barrows
6-1
6-3
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
R.C. Thomas
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Godfrey Lowell Cabot
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Dwight Filley Davis sr 1 *
Beals Wright
6-3
6-3
Preliminary Round
Beals Wright 1 *
Dr Larkin White Glazebrook
6-1
11-9
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Calhoun C. Cragin
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
John Clay Davidson
9-7
6-2
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Fred Alexander
9-11
6-2
6-2
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Raymond Little
6-2
6-2
6-1
Challenge Round
Edwin Philip Fischer 1 *
Beals Wright
3-6
6-1
10-8
8-6
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
George P. Sheldon jr
w.o.
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Louis J. Grant
6-2
6-2
6-1
Round 3
William Scott Bond 1 *
Beals Wright
4-6
6-4
7-5
4-6
6-3
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Raymond Little
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
S.G. Tate
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Ernest Riddell Paterson
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Malcolm Douglass (Mal) Whitman 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
8-6
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
George F. Brown jr
6-4
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Dr George Franklin Eames
6-3
6-2
7-5
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Joseph Roberts Carpenter Jr.
6-2
9-7
6-1
Semifinals
Bill Larned 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
11-9
6-4
Preliminary Round
Frank B. Hague 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Rufus Gardner (Big Rufe) Fessenden
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
A.B. Lapsley
6-4
6-3
Quarterfinals
Dwight Filley Davis sr 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-5
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Calhoun C. Cragin
7-5
6-3
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Harold A. Plummer
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Wylie Grant
8-6
6-3
Semifinals
Jahial (John) Parmly Paret 1 *
Beals Wright
4-6
8-6
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
H. Penhallow
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
John Bertram Read
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Alfred Codman jr
3-6
7-5
7-5
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Leonard Everett (Leo) Ware
6-1
6-4
Final
Dwight Filley Davis sr 1 *
Beals Wright
6-1
6-2
4-6
6-4
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Harold Hackett
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
John Clay Davidson
9-7
8-6
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Edwin Philip Fischer
9-7
6-4
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Clarence Rhodes Budlong
8-6
7-5
6-3
Round 2
Clarence Rhodes Budlong 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
A.L. Harris
6-4
9-7
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Amos Alonzo Stagg
6-3
6-1
Semifinals
Malcolm Douglass (Mal) Whitman 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-2
Preliminary Round
Dean Emery 1 *
Beals Wright
w.o.
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Percival Marshall
6-0
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
John Albert Ryerson
6-2
6-4
3-6
5-7
6-3
Round 3
Harold Adair Nisbet 1 *
Beals Wright
6-3
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Ewart O. Osborne
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Edwin Philip Fischer 1 *
Beals Wright
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Frederick Warren Beekman
6-1
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Harold Adair Nisbet 1 *
Beals Wright
6-2
6-3
7-5
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
S. McGuy Pierce
6-5
6-5
Round 3
Beals Wright 1 *
William Dana Orcutt
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Holcombe Ward 1 *
Beals Wright
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Lucius Everett Varney
w.o.
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
Lawrence Delano Varney
7-5
6-2
Final
Beals Wright 1 *
Edward Tudor Gross
6-3
6-4
7-5
Challenge Round
James S. Terry 1 *
Beals Wright
4-6
7-5
6-1
8-6
Round 1
Beals Wright 1 *
Henry H. (Harry) Burdick
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Beals Wright 1 *
T.P. Peckham
6-2
7-5
Semifinals
Beals Wright 1 *
John Crosby Neely jr.
6-4
7-5
Final
Reginald Fincke 1 *
Beals Wright
6-2
6-3
6-3
Round 1
William Mansfield Scudder III 1 *
Beals Wright
6-8
6-4
6-4
Final
Thomas Sterling Beckwith 1 *
Beals Wright
4-6
3-6
6-0
6-4
6-2
Round 1
C.L. Bassett 1 *
Beals Wright
3-6
6-2
6-4
Round 1
B.S. Watson 1 *
Beals Wright
6-3
6-1