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Number 00615 |
Scan Date 6/13/02 |
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Time Period September 1942 |
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Subject Matter Camp Sutton World War II |
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Location Monroe, North Carolina |
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Description Corporal Bud Tenney "Tennis Champ" |
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Notes Tenney, a native of New England, won the Charlotte Observer Greater Charlotte and Myers Park Club Red Cross men's tennis championship on September 13, 1942. He defeated Teddy Keesler and earlier eliminated a former winner and favorite, Bobby Spurrier. Tenney began playing tennis at the age of eight. He once lost to Bobby Riggs in a "spectacular five-set struggle at Longwood Bowl, Mass., in 1938." from The Charlotte Observer, September 14, 1942. Time Period, Description, Notes updated 10/14/2010 -pmp |
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Measurements of original photograph |
Height 10" |
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Type of photograph Black and White |
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