1937 Men's British Open Squash Championship

British Open Squash Championships
British Open Squash Championships
7th British Open Championships
Details
Location	London, England
Venue	Bath Club & Royal Automobile Club
	← 1936 1938 →

The 1937 Open Championship featured the defending open champion F. D. Amr Bey of Egypt being challenged by Jim Dear the professional champion. The first leg was held at Dear's club the Royal Automobile Club on 22 November. Bey won the first leg three games to two. The second leg took place at Bey's home Bath Club on 29 November. Bey won his fifth consecutive Open Championship title by clinching the second leg three games to one in a fifty-minute match.
After securing a sixth Amateur Championship in December 1937 the Egyptian retired from international competitions the following March and received a national banquet attended by King Farouk in his honour on 25 March in Cairo.^[1]

Results edit

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First leg edit

Royal Automobile Club

F. D. Amr Bey	10	10	4	1	9

Jim Dear	8	8	9	9	4

Second leg edit

Bath Club

F. D. Amr Bey	9	8	9	9

Jim Dear	7	10	6	5

Preceded by 1936	British Open Squash Championships England (London) 1937	Succeeded by 1938

References edit

^ "Times Archives 1937 Open Championship". Oxfordshire Libraries.
^ "Squash Rackets". The Times Archives. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2015.

[1] "Times Archives 1937 Open Championship". Oxfordshire Libraries.

[2] "Squash Rackets". The Times Archives. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2015.

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