New Hampshire State Championships Explained

New Hampshire State Championships
Type:	Defunct
Tour:	USNLTA Circuit (1895–1923) ILTF Circuit (1924-59)
Location:	Center Harbor Crawford Notch Concord
Venue:	Center Harbor LTC Crawford House Concord LTC

The New Hampshire State Championships,^[1] also called the New Hampshire Championships, was a men's and women's tennis tournament founded in 1895 as a sanctioned event of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. It was first held at the Center Harbor LTC, Center Harbor, New Hampshire, United States.^[1] The tournament was held in conjunction with the White Mountains Tennis Championships from 1905 to 1950. It ran annually as part of the USNLTA Circuit from 1895 to 1923, then as part of ILTF Circuit from 1924 to 1970, when it was dropped from that circuit.^[1]

History

In 1890 the first edition of the East Side of the White Mountains Championships was held.^[2] That tournament was a United States National Lawn Tennis Association sanctioned event.^[2] The tournament was organized by the Iron Mountain Lawn Tennis Association^[2] and held at the Iron Mountain LTC, Jackson, New Hampshire.^[2] This event ran until 1895 then was discontinued.^[2] In 1905 the tournament was revived at Crawford Notch, New Hampshire as the White Mountains Championships. It was located approximately from Jackson, and played on outside tennis courts at the Crawford House, where the men's tournament was held in conjunction with the New Hampshire State Championships.^[3] ^[4] The women's tournament continued to be held in Jackson, New Hampshire, until 1916 under its original name the East Side of the White Mountains Championships.

In 1924 the women's tournament was added to the schedule of the New Hampshire State Championships as a combined tournament known as the New Hampshire and White Mountains Championships,^[5] with players assuming both titles e.g. New Hampshire State Champion and White Mountains Champion. The joint tournament was held in Crawford Notch until the beginning of the Second World War. Following the war it was still being held in Crawford.^[6] By 1950 the New Hampshire State Championships and White Mountains separated into two events; the former continued to be played at Crawford Notch, while the latter moved to Waumbec Tennis Club at Jefferson, New Hampshire.^[7] In 1964 the tournament moved to Concord, New Hampshire. With the onset of the open era looming, this tennis tournament was discontinued in 1970.

Finals

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Location	Champion	Runner Up	Score
New Hampshire State Championships
↓ USNLTA Circuit ↓
1895	Center Harbor	Jahial Parmly Paret	Henry G. Bixby	7-5, 6–3, 6–2.
1897	Center Harbor	James S. Terry	Beals Wright	?
New Hampshire State and White Mountains Championships
1910^[8]	Crawford Notch	Fred H. Harris	William Bradshaw Craigin	4-6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–2.
1911^[9]	Crawford Notch	Fred H. Harris (2)	William Bradshaw Craigin	7–5, 6–1, 6–2.
1912^[10]	Crawford Notch	Fred H. Harris (3)	?	?.
1913^[11]	Crawford Notch	James Newell	G. A. Pratt	6–4, 4–6, 7–5, 6–2.
↓ ILTF Circuit ↓
1930	Crawford Notch	Percy Lloyd Kynaston	Anton Frederick Von Bernuth	6–0, 9–7, 6–0.
1935	Crawford Notch	Arthur B. Wright	David Burt	6–2, 6–0, 6–2.
1937^[12]	Crawford Notch	Robert Decker	Anton Frederick Von Bernuth	3–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–1.
1938^[13]	Crawford Notch	Sandy Davenport	Donald Meiklejohn	7–5, 6–1, 6–2.
1939	Crawford Notch	Sandy Davenport (2)	Fred (Fritz) Kuser	6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 6–4.
New Hampshire State Championships
1955	Jefferson	Larry Lewis	Donald S. Hawley	6–3, 6–4, 8–6.
1956	Crawford Notch		E. Blair Hawley	6–2, 6–4.
1957	Crawford Notch		Chauncey Steele Jr.	6–2, 6–1, 6–1.
1958	Crawford Notch	Ronald Holmberg (2)	Ralph Stuart	6–3, 3-1 rte.
1959	Crawford Notch	Ronald Holmberg (3)	Paul Sullivan	6–1, 6–1, 6–2.
1960	Crawford Notch	Ronald Holmberg (4)	Father Hume	?.
1963	Concord		Ralph Stuart	7–5, 7–5.
1964	Concord	Tony Lieberman	Bill Cullen	9–7, 6–3, 6–1.
1965	Concord	Ned Weld (2)	Tom Raleigh	6–3, 6–3, 6–2.
1966	Concord	Larry Lewis	Paul Young	6–2, 6–3.
1967	Concord	Larry Lewis (2)	Dick Hoehn^[14]	6–4, 2–6, 6–3.
1968	Concord		Roger Wilson Magenau	6–4, 6–1.
↓ Open era ↓
New Hampshire State Open Championships
1969	Concord		Lucien Sulloway^[15]	6–2, 6–3.
1970	Concord	Paul Sullivan	Ted Hoehn	12–10, 11–9.

Women's singles