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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiya_Kumagae "Ichiya "Ichy" Kumagae (熊谷 一弥 Kumagai Ichiya, 10 September 1890 – 16 August 1968) was a Japanese tennis player and the first Japanese Olympic medalist." "In 1916, he travelled to the United States with Zenzo Shimizu to compete in the US Open, marking the first participation of a Japanese in one of the Grand Slam tournaments. Kumagae spent a total of three months in the United States, during which he competed in 60 tournaments. He did not lose a single match on a clay court, and lost only four matches on grass courts, rising to the U.S. rank of No. 5."

Other Bain photos of him, probably from the same U.S. Open:

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According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Open_Men%27s_Doubles_cha... Clarence Griffin and Bill Johnston beat Maurice McLoughlin and Ward Dawson for the 1916 national men's doubles championship.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Griffin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Johnston_(tennis) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_E._McLoughlin H. Ward Dawson -- freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sfbda...

An account of the match:
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE3D61E3FE2...

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This is Dean Mathey (1890-1972) of Cranford, N.J. playing in the National Tennis Championships in August, 1916 in Forest Hills, N.Y. He reached the third round that year. He graduated from Princeton in 1912, and Mathey College there is his namesake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Mathey query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E02E2D61E31E7... Official Princeton bio: etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/mathey_dean.html Revisionist unofficial Princeton bio: www.nassauweekly.com/whats-name-frosh/

Art Siegel: thanks for finding more information on Dean Mathey. We will add the information to the record the next time we update.