He was the world champion (1914–1916) and the Olympic gold medalist (London, 1908, then under the name jeu de paume).

Amateur Championship title continuously from 1906 to 1925, winning 18 times (no tournaments were held during the U.S. involvement in World War I).

He was already a national and world champion in court tennis as a freshman at Columbia.

[6][7] 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] 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.