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The Seventies
1970
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Elfie Carroll
- From Forest Hills, NY and St. Petersburg, FL.
- Woman's national champion 1950, 1955 and 1958; runner-up 1951, 1952,1953, 1957 and 1960.
- National mixed doubles champion (with her husband) for four straight years - 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952; runners-up 1953 and 1958.
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Alexander Carver
- Men's national champion three years in a row - 1961, 1962 and 1963.
- Mixed national champion 1964; runner-up 1958, 1962, 1963 and 1968.
- Men's senior national champion 1963 and 1970; finalist 1968.
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Mary Adair Moore
- Woman's national champion 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954; finalist 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1950.
- Mixed national champion 1946; finalist 1939 and 1951.
- Known as Maizie, she was Madge Beck' s sister.
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1972
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 Philip W. Osborne
- Founder, Fox Chapel Racket Club.
- Pioneered the development of Pittsburgh platform tennis.
- An early proponent of the aluminum deck.
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1973
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 Gordon S. Gray
- Mixed national champion 1966; finalist men's open nationals that same year (the year he first took up platform tennis).
- Mixed champion 1967 and 1968.
- Men's open finalist 1968.
- Men's open champion 1969, 1970 and 1971 - three in a row (a feat done only once previously); finalist 1972.
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1974
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 Richard J. Reilly, Jr.
- House-builder turned platform tennis court manufacturing pioneer.
- Developed a better system for tightening screens; hinged snow boards.
- Did away with the four upper-corner braces.
- Added walnut chips (and later granular aluminum) to the deck paint for traction on courts.
- Developed the aluminum court.
- Expanded platform tennis to Canada, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Indonesia and Poland to name a few..
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1976
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John R. Moses
- Fox Meadow fixture.
- Captain, Yale tennis team.
- Youngest men's nationals finalist ever at 19 years old.
- Youngest men's open national champion at 23 years old.
- Nationals champion 1947 and 1957.
- Nationals finalist 1943, 1948, 1953 and 1955.
- Mixed national champion 1955.
- Introduced Kansas City to platform tennis.
- Also a number-one ranked squash player.
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Susan Wasch
- Youngest woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- Fifth-ranked woman in total number of points earned for winning and running-up in APTA championship play.
- Youngest mixed doubles nationals finalist (1957).
- Mixed doubles champion 1972; finalist 1960, 1965 and 1973.
- Women's open national champion at age 24 (for many years the youngest to ever win the title).
- National champion four times - 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1965; finalist 1964 and 1967.
- Only platform tennis player to be highlighted in Sports Illustrated'sFaces in the Crowd (after winning the mixed national championship in 1972 with her brother and despite a 7-year layoff from the sport).
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1979
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Eldredge L. Bermingham
- Built the first courts in the Pittsburgh area in 1960.
- Introduced the sport to the area via scrambles tournaments (where half the team had to be from another town).
- And in so doing he helped introduce platform tennis to Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati and Toledo.
- Founded the Western Pennsylvania Platform Tennis Association in 1967 (the first regional organization).
- APTA Director 1973-75.
- Photo with his wife, Pamela, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997.
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 Peggy Stanton
- Winner of 4 national women's championships (1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970); nationals finalist 1971.
- Winner of senior women's nationals in 1974 and 1977; finalist 1976.
- Finalist, national mixed 1969.
- Worked for more and better tournaments, bigger draws and prizes.
- First woman Director of the APTA.
- First APTA Women's Tournament Director.
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