Jay Gould II (September 1, 1888 – January 26, 1935) was an American real tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould. He was the world champion (1914–1916) and the Olympic gold medalist (London, 1908, then under the name jeu de paume).[1] He held the U.S. Amateur Championship title continuously from 1906 to 1925, winning 18 times (no tournaments were held during the U.S. involvement in World War I).[2] During the same period, he never lost a set to an American amateur, and lost only one singles match, to English champion E.M. Baerlein.[3] The court built for him by his father at the family's Georgian Court estate was restored in 2005. Jay Gould II is the great-great-uncle of US Olympic cyclist Georgia Gould, who qualified to race in the London 2012 Olympiad.
He married Anne Douglass Graham, a cousin of Princess Abigail Campbell Kawananakoa and a granddaughter of a Hawaiian chiefess, and had the following children:[8]
Eleanor Gould, born January 31, 1912, who married successively William N. Haskill III and Ludlow W. Stephens.[9]
Anne Douglass Gould, (March 5, 1913 to April 4, 1962). She married and divorced Frank Spencer J. Meador, Herman H. Elsbury, Gus Wagoner, Ezra Wogoman, and Donald Valentine.
He died on January 26, 1935, at Margaretville, New York. The cause of death was "hemorrhage of the esophagus brought on by a complexity of ailments."[17]
^"The Princess Kawananakoa". The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981. Library of Congress. July 22, 1911. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
^She married Ludlow W. Stephens on December 26, 1934.
^"Divorced". Time. June 17, 1946. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved 2008-08-03. Jay Gould III, 26, great-grandson of the late railroad tycoon, still had a wife. Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce, was refused a divorce by a Los Angeles judge who judged her complaints insufficient. Some of them: Husband Jay wouldn't let her dance or play tennis with anybody but him, didn't like her theatrical friends, demanded full-fashioned meals, and was too demonstrative in his public lovemaking.
^"Married". Time. September 25, 1944. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-03. Navy Air Forces Lieut. Jay Gould III, 24, great-grandson of the late great manipulator Jay Gould; and Jennifer Beryl Bruce, 19, daughter of veteran British character actor Nigel Bruce; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
^"Divorced". Time. July 22, 1946. Archived from the original on February 19, 2011. Retrieved 2008-08-03. Jay Gould III, 27, wartime AAFlyer, namesake and great-grandson of the Erie railroad tycoon; by Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, pert, pretty daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce; after nearly two years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.
^"Wife of Jay Gould III Wins Divorce Decree". Los Angeles Times. July 9, 1946. Jay Gould III was accused of "indiscreetly" attending a party at a San Francisco hotel with another woman just three months after his marriage to actress ...
^"Married". Time. July 13, 1953. Archived from the original on June 4, 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-03. Jay Gould III, 32, namesake and great-grandson of the fabulous railroad financier; and Lina Romay, 29, dark-eyed songstress of stage (Michael Todd's Peep Show) and screen (The Man Behind the Gun); he for the third time, she for the second; in Los Angeles.