Martha Guthrie
{{short description|American tennis player}}
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| name = Martha Guthrie
| image = MarthaGuthrie1919.jpg
| alt = A white woman playing tennis, wearing a long buttoned skirt and a short-sleeved blouse.
| caption = Martha Guthrie, from a 1919 publication
| birth_date = {{birth date text|1894}}
| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date|1941|08|17}} (aged 47)
| death_place = Ohio River, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| occupation =
| spouse = {{marriage|Felix B. Snowden|1917|1937|end=div.}}
{{marriage|Edwin S. Hingst|1937}}
| children = 1
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Martha Guthrie (1894 – August 17, 1941) was an amateur tennis player in the early part of the 20th century.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/tennisforgirls00ballgoog|quote=tennis.|title=Tennis for Girls|last=Ballin|first=Florence A.|date=1919|publisher=American sports Publishing Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/tennisforgirls00ballgoog/page/n32 20]|language=en}} She was ranked No. 8{{by whom|date=August 2024}} in the United States in 1916.
Biography
Guthrie was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She reached the semifinals at the 1915 U.S. National Championships before falling to future International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinee Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, 6–3, 2–6, 2–6. She also was a quarterfinalist in doubles that year.
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34205315/martha_guthrie_1916/|title=Miss Martha Guthrie Wins Tennis Honors|date=September 17, 1916|work=The Gazette Times|publication-place=Pittsburgh|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=20|via=Newspapers.com}} She also played impressively and lost in the final match{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34205783/martha_guthrie_molla_bjurstedt_1916/|title=Miss Guthrie's Defeat|date=May 22, 1916|work=The Pittsburgh Press|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=24|via=Newspapers.com}} at the Women's Metropolitan Championships in Forest Hills that year.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34205699/martha_guthrie_1916/|title=Pittsburg Girl Star of Metropolitan Tourney|date=May 16, 1916|work=The Sun|publication-place=New York|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}} In 1917, before she married, she won the Florida Women's Tennis Championship in Palm Beach.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34205925/1917_martha_guthrie/|title=Miss Guthrie Gains Title|date=March 3, 1917|work=The Evening Star|publication-place=Washington, D.C.|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}}
As Martha Guthrie Snowden after her marriage in 1917, she continued competing in tennis tournaments, as both a singles and a mixed doubles player.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34206041/martha_guthrie_snowden_1917/|title=Garland Beats Alexander in Patriotic Tennis Match|date=September 29, 1917|work=The Gazette Times|publication-place=Pittsburgh|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34206103/martha_guthrie_snowden_1917/|title=Crowd Witnesses Classy Matches|date=September 30, 1917|work=The Pittsburgh Press|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=23|via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
Martha Guthrie married lawyer Felix B. Snowden (or Snowdon) in 1917.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34205541/martha_guthrie_1916/|title=Martha Guthrie, A Noted Tennis Player, to Wed|date=December 30, 1916|work=The Indianapolis Star|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=42|via=Newspapers.com}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34205429/martha_guthrie_snowden_1937/|title=Wife's Two-Fisted Drinking Shamed Him, Clubman Says|date=May 2, 1937|work=The Pittsburgh Press|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=47|via=Newspapers.com}} She married again in 1937, to Edwin S. Hingst. Martha Guthrie Snowden Hingst died in the Ohio River near Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1941,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34211429/martha_guthrie_snowden_hingst_1941/|title=Mrs. Hingst Former Local Tennis Champion|date=August 18, 1941|work=Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=15|via=Newspapers.com}} in a houseboat fire. She was 47 years old.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33238550/martha_guthrie_snowden/|title=Ex-Socialite Dies in Houseboat Fire|date=August 18, 1941|work=The Pittsburgh Press|access-date=July 24, 2019|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}
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Category:American female tennis players
Category:Tennis players from Pittsburgh