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American golfer, tennis, and real tennis player
Charles Edward Sands
(December 22, 1865 – August 9, 1945) was an American
golfer
,
tennis
and
real tennis
player who competed in the
1900 Summer Olympics
and in the
1908 Summer Olympics
.
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Education
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Sands was educated at
Columbia College
, where he played tennis and golf, and graduated in 1887.
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He was posthumously inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Sports career
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In 1900 he won the gold medal in the
men's individual golf competition
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Sands also participated as tennis player in July 1890 he won the
Northwestern Championships
played at the Hotel St. Louis,
Minnetonka, Minnesota
. At the 1900 Olympics. In the
singles tournament
he was eliminated in the first round. He and his British partner
Archibald Warden
were also eliminated in the first round of the
doubles event
. Also the
mixed doubles competition
ended for him and his partner
Georgina Jones
after the first round.
Eight years later he was again eliminated in the first round this time from the
real tennis tournament
.
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