1877 Wimbledon Championship
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The 1877 Wimbledon Championship was a men's tennis tournament held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London. It was the world's first official lawn tennis tournament, and w
Wimbledon Championship 1877
A Sphairistikè lawn tennis court as designed by Major Wingfield in 1874. The hourglass shape was retained in the 1875 MCC rules but replaced by a rectangular court in the AELTC rules which governed the first Wimbledon Championship.
A lawn tennis racket from 1876 with its characteristic slightly lopsided head
Henry Jones played a pivotal role in initiating and organising the first Championship.
Spencer Gore (sportsman)
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Spencer William Gore was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club.
1877 Wimbledon Championship
…one shilling. The winner received 12 guineas in prize money and a silver challenge cup, valued at 25 guineas, donated by the sports magazine The Field. Spencer Gore, a 27-year-old rackets player from Wandsworth, became the first Wimbledon champion by defeating William Marshall, a 28-year-old real tennis player, in…
Spencer Gore
Harrow cricket team of 1869 for the match against Eton. Gore is front row, fourth from the left.
West Side House, Wimbledon, where Gore was born and raised