1937 Women's British Open Squash Championship Explained
The 1937 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington in London from 25–31 January 1937.
Margot Lumb won her third consecutive title defeating Mrs Sheila McKechnie in the final.[1]
Draw and results
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First round
| width=270 | Player one | width=270 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
|---|
| | bye |
| Hon Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke | | bye |
| Miss T King | | bye |
| Miss E Brett | | bye |
| Miss Valerie Dalton-White | | bye |
| Miss M Riddell | | bye |
| Miss H Melsome | | bye |
| Mrs G A Murray | | bye |
| Mrs Sheila McKechnie | Mrs W D Porter | 9-5 9-0 9-7 |
| Miss Elizabeth Knox | Mrs Judith Backhouse | 8-10 9-1 9-2 9-5 |
| Mrs Margaret Dawnay | Miss Marjorie Raphael | w/o |
| Mrs M G Robertson | Miss Ruth Luard | 9-1 9-1 9-4 |
| Miss E Windsor-Aubrey | Mrs H J Stribling | 9-2 9-4 10-9 |
| Miss U Harris | Miss Daphne Colegrave | 9-3 9-0 9-7 |
| Miss Elizabeth Glascock | Miss S M Holroyd | 9-6 5-9 9-6 9-0 |
| Miss D C Wilcox | Miss Elizabeth Manson Bahr | 9-2 9-3 9-4 |
| Miss N L Kelman | Mrs A Knight | 9-7 3-9 10-8 9-4 |
| Miss M Fraser | Mrs Diana Petitpierre | 9-2 9-3 9-1 |
| Miss G Edwards | Miss P Brown | w/o |
| Miss M Grant | Miss Peggy Runge | 9-6 9-3 9-0 |
| Mrs Stella Blaxland-Levick | Miss Ursula Foljambe | 9-2 9-4 9-0 |
| Mrs P L Hervey | Miss N Steven | 9-0 9-2 9-5 |
| Miss A Connell | Miss D F Cearns | 10-8 9-6 9-3 |
| Mrs A Vickers | Miss Mary McLintock | w/o |
| Miss H M H Smeeton | Mrs S M Green | w/o |
| Mrs Phyllis Philcox | Miss R Vickers | 9-5 9-5 9-4 |
| Miss Joan Marquis | Miss C Babington-Smith | 9-6 9-6 9-4 |
| Mrs F C Thompson | Mrs S B Pakenham | 9-1 9-6 1-9 9-4 |
| Miss Berenice Lumb | Miss E Caldwell | 9-7 9-5 9-6 |
| Mrs Violet St Clair Morford | Mrs D E Patten | 9-1 9-3 9-4 |
| Miss C Vickers | Miss Joan Huntsman | 9-2 9-2 9-2 |
| Miss Olga Klingenberg | Miss K B Jackson | 9-2 9-0 9-7 | |
Second round
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lumb M | Brett | 9-1 9-0 9-1 |
| Lytton-M | Dalton-W | 9-2 9-5 9-0 |
| McKechnie | Blaxland-L | 9-5 9-4 9-1 |
| Knox | Hervey | 6-9 9-0 9-2 9-4 |
| Dawnay | Connell | 9-1 9-3 9-4 |
| Robertson | Vickers | 9-4 9-0 9-2 |
| Windsor-Aubrey | Smeeton | 9-3 9-0 9-6 |
| Harris | Philcox | 2-9 5-9 9-2 9-6 9-0 |
| King | Murray | 9-10 3-3 ret |
| Glascock | Marquis | 9-1 10-9 9-4 |
| Wilcox | Thompson | 5-9 9-7 9-2 99-3 |
| Kelman | Lumb B | 9-2 10-8 9-6 |
| Fraser | Morford | 9-2 9-6 0-9 7-9 9-0 |
| Riddell | Melsome | 9-1 9-1 9-1 |
| Edwards | Vickers | 9-2 9-2 9-3 |
| Grant | Klingenberg | 9-2 3-9 9-5 9-4 | |
Third round
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lumb | King | 9-1 9-0 9-5 |
| McKechnie | Glascock | 9-0 9-1 9-0 |
| Robertson | Wilcox | 9-0 9-4 9-4 |
| Windsor-A | Kelman | 9-6 9-4 9-7 |
| Knox | Fraser | 9-5 9-5 0-9 9-1 |
| Lytton-M | Riddell | 9-1 9-2 9-2 |
| Dawnay | Edwards | 4-9 9-7 9-3 9-2 |
| Harris | Grant | 7-9 9-1 9-3 1-9 9-0 | |
Quarter-finals
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| Lumb | Dawnay | 9-3 9-1 9-4 |
| McKechnie | Robertson | 9-4 9-4 9-5 |
| Lytton-M | Windsor-Aubrey | 9-1 9-0 9-7 |
| Knox | Harris | 9-3 9-3 9-0 | |
Semi-finals
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lumb | Knox | 9-0 9-0 9-2 |
| McKechnie | Lytton-M | 9-2 9-3 1-9 9-5 | |
Final
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| Lumb | McKechnie | 9-3 9-2 9-0 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Times Archives 1937 Open Championship. Oxfordshire Libraries.
- Web site: Squash Rackets. The Times Archives. 20 June 2015. 18 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170118235618/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/. dead.
