Jay Gould II


Jay Gould II was an American real tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould. He was the world champion and the Olympic gold medalist. He held the U.S. Amateur Championship title continuously from 1906–1925, winning 18 times. During the same period, he never lost a set to an American amateur, and lost only one singles match, to English champion E.M. Baerlein. The court built for him by his father at the family's Georgian Court estate was restored in 2005. Jay is the great-great-uncle of US Olympic cyclist Georgia Gould, who qualified to race in the London 2012 Olympiad.

Biography

He was born on September 1, 1888 to George Jay Gould. He was educated at Columbia College and was a member of the class of 1911. He was already a national and world champion in court tennis as a freshman at Columbia.He also played squash for the Columbia University Club of New York.

Marriage and children

He married Anne Douglass Graham, a cousin of Princess Abigail Campbell Kawananakoa and a granddaughter of a Hawaiian chiefess, and had the following children:
He died on January 26, 1935, at Margaretville, New York. The cause of death was "hemorrhage of the esophagus brought on by a complexity of ailments."