Martha Guthrie (1894 – August 17, 1941) was an amateur tennis player in the early part of the 20th century.[1] She was ranked No. 8[by whom?] in the United States in 1916.
She was a semifinalist at the 1915 U.S. Clay Court Championships, again falling to Mallory. She was a singles finalist, women's doubles winner and mixed doubles winner (with William McEllroy) at the 1915 Ohio State championships. She also won the Allegheny County Championship twice (1914, 1916); the Western Pennsylvania Championships six times (1916, 1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1929).
At the tournament in Tri-State Championships in Cincinnati, she won the singles title and the doubles title in 1916.[2] She also played impressively and lost in the final match[3] at the Women's Metropolitan Championships in Forest Hills that year.[4] In 1917, before she married, she won the Florida Women's Tennis Championship in Palm Beach.[5]
As Martha Guthrie Snowden after her marriage in 1917, she continued competing in tennis tournaments, as both a singles and a mixed doubles player.[6][7]
Personal life
Martha Guthrie married lawyer Felix B. Snowden (or Snowdon) in 1917.[8] They had a daughter born in 1931, also named Martha Guthrie Snowden. They divorced in 1937, with Felix Snowden publicizing his wife's excessive drinking as the cause.[9] She married again in 1937, to Edwin S. Hingst. Martha Guthrie Snowden Hingst died in the Ohio River near Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1941,[10] in a houseboat fire. She was 47 years old.[11]
References
^Ballin, Florence A. (1919). Tennis for Girls. American sports Publishing Company. pp. 20. tennis.
