Jay Gould II
American real tennis player
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Jay Gould II (September 1, 1888 – January 26, 1935) was an American real tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould. He was the world champion (1914–1916) and the Olympic gold medalist (London, 1908, then under the name jeu de paume).[1] He held the U.S. Amateur Championship title continuously from 1906 to 1925, winning 18 times (no tournaments were held during the U.S. involvement in World War I).[2] 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.[3] The court built for him by his father at the family's Georgian Court estate was restored in 2005. Jay Gould II is the great-great-uncle of US Olympic cyclist Georgia Gould, who qualified to race in the London 2012 Olympiad.
Jay Gould II | |
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| Born | September 1, 1888 New York City, US |
| Died | January 26, 1935 (aged 46) |
| Alma mater | Columbia College |
| Occupation | Tennis player |
| Spouse | Anne Douglass Graham |
| Children | Jay Gould III |
| Parent(s) | George Jay Gould Edith Kingdon |
| Relatives | Jay Gould (grandfather) |
| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Men's jeu de paume | ||
Representing the  United States | ||
 | 1908 London | Individual |
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.[4][5] He also played squash for the Columbia University Club of New York.[6][7]
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:[8]
- Eleanor Gould, born January 31, 1912, who married successively William N. Haskill III and Ludlow W. Stephens.[9]
- Anne Douglass Gould, (March 5, 1913 to April 4, 1962). She married and divorced Frank Spencer J. Meador, Herman H. Elsbury, Gus Wagoner, Ezra Wogoman, and Donald Valentine.
- Jay Gould III (May 13, 1920 – May 11, 1987). He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He married Jennifer Beryl Bruce, the daughter of Nigel Bruce, in 1944 and divorced in 1946.[10][11][12][13] He next married Blair Roemer Stevens on November 27, 1948.[14] Gould married a third time on June 30, 1953, to Lina Romay, the singer and actress.[15][16]
Death
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."[17]
