(Classified) IS DEAD AT 80, HORSEMAN, EX-TENNIS CHAMPION

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: September 10, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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William J. Clothier Is Dead at 80,
horseman', Ex-Tennis Champion
Retired Head of Coal Firm
Elected to Hall of Fame-
Was Breeder of Hounds
Special to The New York Times.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5 -
Wili'iam Jackson Clothier,
sportsman aid former national
term is champion, died last night
at his honi Valley Hill Farm,
eaValleyy orge. He was 80
rs old.
Mr. Clothier was the son of
Isaac Clothier, a founder of the
Strawbridge & Clothier depart-
ImtgrrW~ere. He began his
bus es% C4r er ifs a. partner in
the investment banking firm of
Montgorrl Clothier & Tyler.
When R ?firm.was dissolve
in 1921 e ecame' rree' $"e'n" to
the Bo.- 41ty Coal " Cor-"
poratio i a harpies, W.? Va. Hee
held that ast until his retire-
ment in 1 7.
Mr. Clo' l er's enthusiasm for
tennis an4 riding, horses con-
tinued for ,l ost-of his life. His
retirem s master of the
Pickerin unt C1 ?h in Phoe-
nixville e fed a fox
hunting tliat covered
forty ye
Iti op 10 for 11 Years
From 1901 to 1914 he was
ranked among the first ten ten-
nis players in the nationals
eleven times.
Mr. Clothier won the Penn-
Sylvania singles tennis cham-
pionship five years and in 1903
and 1904 reached the final
rounds of the national lawn tor~nis championship gamet at
,Newport, R. I. In 1905 he was
a member of the first Davis
Cup team to go to England and
the next year he won the na-
tional tennis singles champion-
ship at Newport.
When th national Lawn Ten-
nis Hall ON Fine and Tennis
Museum W' s founded' at New-
port in 19 4, Mr. Clothier was
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Hall of Fame in 1956.
Mr. Clothier's enthusiasm for
riding and fox hunting resulted
in many inl_tzries. It also kindled
his interest`in an allied endeav-
or the Breeding and raising
of hounds. On the eve of hfs
wedding in 1906 to Anita Por-
ter, Mr. Clothier's pelvis wag
fractured in a fall from a horse.
Tito ceremgny was"performed in
tYi bridegroom's bed chamber
arthe family estate, Ballytore.
Home of the country's lead-
ing horse fanciers used Mr.
Clothier's 700-acre farm as a
gathering place until 1950 when
the mansion was destroyed by
fire. Among his best-known
thorougTbreds were Brasseau,
MeltoneY~e, Tecopa, ? Henchman
and Ping Pep.
He was graduated from
Haverford School in 1899 and
attended Swarthmore #College
for two. years before going to
Harvard, where he received a
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904.
Mr. Clothier was a member
of the American Friends Serv-
ice Committee and a director of
Freedoms Foundation, the Boy
Scouts of America, the Phila-
delphia Charity Ball and Grad-
uate Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania. He also was a
member of the Sons of the Rev-,
olution and the Colonial Society
of Pennsylvania.
His clubs included Merion I
Cricket, Philadelphia, Rumson
Country, Racquet of Philadel-
phia, Racquet and Tennis of
England Lawn Tennis and
Cricket Club and the Interna-
tional Lawn Tennis Clubs of the
United States, Great Britain
and Australia.
Mr. Clothier's wife died in
29kardd ofg William
is- orgf clothier
and
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Mrs. Thomas
Lean, Va.: a sister, Mrs. John
Rogers Maxwell Jr. of Bryn
Mawr; seven grandchildren, and
seven great-grandchildren. J
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