Fanny Chapin Curtis Ham (January 11, 1908 – May 1, 2003) was an American sportswoman from Boston. She won the national Junior Doubles tennis championship in 1924 and 1925. with Polly Palfrey and Lee Palfrey as her partners. She also competed in field hockey and badminton tournaments.
Curtis won the national Junior Doubles championship in 1924, with Polly Palfrey as her partner. The pair also won the Massachusetts state Junior Doubles championship that year, and Curtis won the Massachusetts Junior singles title as well.[6][7][8] In 1925, she won a singles tournament in Massachusetts,[9] and won the Junior Singles and Junior Doubles championships, with Palfrey's sister, Lee, as her doubles partner.[10] In 1927, she competed in a women's tennis tournament at the Montserrat Club in Beverly.[11] She played at the college level in 1929, in both singles and doubles games, again with Polly Palfrey as her partner.[12] In 1930, she and Polly Paltrey lost in the second round of doubles at the annual Essex County women's invitational tennis tournament.[13] Also in 1930, she competed in tennis singles at a tournament in Swampscott.[14]
Curtis played left fullback on an All-Boston field hockey team in 1929.[15] She won a badminton tournament of the Women's Interclub Bandminton League in 1933,[16] and was seeded second as a singles and doubles player at a New England badminton tournament in 1935.[17]
Curtis married physician and medical researcher Thomas Hale Ham in 1936; Polly Palfrey was one of her attendants at the wedding.[4] They had a son, Thomas, and daughters Margaret (Polly)[21] and Josephine. Her son died in 1963,[22] and her husband died in 1987.[23] She died in 2003, at the age of 95, on San Juan Island in Washington State.[18]
References
^"Wedding Plans". The Boston Globe. March 31, 1936. p. 2. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
