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General First nameChester Harris
LastnameBriggs
GenderMale
CountryUnited States of America
Date of birth1886-03-05
Place of birthWilliams Bridge, Bronx County, New York, United States of America
Date of death1951-06-22
Place of deathPlainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States of America


About

He was the first and oldest son of Noble Harris Briggs and Agnes Seabold.
He graduated from Plainfield High School (New Jersey) in 1904.
He won the Interscholastic lawn tennis championship on May 9, 1905, in the Columbia University tournament on the courts of the West Side Lawn Tennis Club. Briggs defeated C. E. Van Vleck, Jr., of the Montclair High School 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. As the winner of the tournament, Briggs was privileged to enter at the National Championship Tournament at Newport, in August, and meet the winners of the Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and other collegiate tournaments for the national interscholastic title and honors.
He played in the National Singles Tennis Tournament in New York, lost, but kept playing.

He was buried Fairview cemetery, Westfield, Union County, New Jersey.

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Archive statistics Career1897 - 1905
Tournament wins0
Matches2
Match wins0


Tournaments US Open - 1905 Niagara International Tournament - 1897