The Orange Invitation was a grass court tennis tournament originally founded in 1881 as the Orange Fall Open that ran until 1899.
[1] In 1920 the event was revived as an annual invitational tournament through to 1940.
[2] In 1880 the Orange Lawn Tennis Club (OLTC) is founded at the intersection of Montrose and Berkeley Avenue in South Orange, New Jersey, where it remained for 36 years.
[4] Prior to 1920 Orange Lawn Tennis Club had been host to the Middle States Championships which was moved to Philadelphia.
[3] Previous winners of the men's singles title included; Richard Field Conover, Howard Augustus Taylor, Vinnie Richards, Bill Tilden, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Masanosuke Fukuda and Sidney Wood.