Adelaide Yager Rameson

Adelaide Claudia Cox Yager Rameson Taylor (January 20, 1892 – December 9, 1973) was an American tennis player from Kansas City, Missouri, later based in Los Angeles, California.

Adelaide Yager Rameson, from a 1919 publication.

Early life

Adelaide Claudia Cox was from Missouri, the daughter of Fred Millard Cox (1864–1908) and Maude Elizabeth Vrooman Cox (1870–1928).[1]

Career

Adelaide Yager of Kansas City[2][3] won the lawn tennis singles competition at Missouri Valley Women's Championships in 1914. [4] In the same year, she was runner-up to Marjorie Hires at the Central West Women's Championship in Kansas City, Missouri.[5] Yager was selected as the top-ranked woman tennis player in Kansas City in 1914.[6] In 1915 she was singles runner-up at the Missouri Valley Women's Championships.[7] She was ranked in the top 30 women tennis players in America in 1915.[8]

As Adelaide Rameson, she was Great Plains and Central States tennis singles champion and women's doubles and mixed doubles runner-up in 1918.[9] She was also runner-up in singles and won in women's doubles at the Los Angeles City Championships,[10][11] and runner-up at the national level at the 1918 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, defeated by Carrie Neely.[12] She was ranked as one of the top ten American women's lawn tennis players in 1919.[13][14]

Personal life

Adelaide Cox married William Watson Yager in 1912. They had children together, William (1912–1982) and Ramona (1916–2001), before they divorced. She married Julius Alfred Rasmussen, a Danish man also known as Jack Rameson, in 1918. They had two sons together, Jack (1919–1961) and Fred (1922–1965). She was widowed when Jack Rameson died in 1944;[15] she married a third time, to Paul Taylor, in 1945. She died in Glendale, California in 1973, age 81.[16]

References
  1. "Her Sister Dead" Council Grove Republican (November 19, 1928): 1. via Newspapers.com
  2. "Mrs. Yager Will Compete in Tennis Play at Triple A" St. Louis Star and Times (June 7, 1918): 13. via Newspapers.com
  3. "Miss Arnstein Loses State Tennis Title to Kansas City Star in 32-Minute Match" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 18, 1916): 35. via Newspapers.com
  4. "Missouri Valley Women's Championships" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1915): 114.
  5. John Ten Broeck, "Central West Women's Championship" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1915): 172-173.
  6. John Ten Broeck, "Lawn Tennis in Kansas City" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1915): 189-190.
  7. "Missouri Valley Women's Championships" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1916): 90-91.
  8. "Official Women's Ranking" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1916): 258.
  9. Robert Ross, "Central States Women's Championships" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1919): 131-132.
  10. H. F. Weller, "Tennis in Southern California" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1919): 157-158.
  11. "Mrs. Widdowson Gets Revenge in City Meet" Los Angeles Times (September 10, 1918): 4. via Newspapers.com
  12. "Great Plains Tournaments" Spalding's Tennis Annual (1919): 138.
  13. "Women's Ranking" American Lawn Tennis (January 15, 1919): 354.
  14. "Leading 20 Players Under New Ranking of Net Stars" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 9, 1919): 5. via Newspapers.com
  15. "Retired Bullock Official Succumbs" Los Angeles Times (December 13, 1944): 26. via Newspapers.com
  16. "Deaths" Los Angeles Times (December 11, 1973): 30. via Newspapers.com
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