Andrew Drew

{{short description|American tennis player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Andrew Drew | image = Andrew Drew (cropped).png | caption = | birth_date = February 1885 | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1913|06|12|1885|02|}} | death_place = Lima, Meigs County, Ohio | resting_place = Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | occupation = Tennis player, balloonist, aviator | years_active = 1904–1913 }}

'''Andrew Drew''' (February 1885 – June 12, 1913)<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50473780/andrew Andrew Drew; findagrave.com]</ref> was an American tennis player. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1904 Summer Olympics.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/andrew-drew-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418104615/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/andrew-drew-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Andrew Drew |accessdate=January 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2756 |title=Andrew Drew |work=Olympedia |access-date=February 21, 2021}}</ref>

==Aviation== Drew had been a balloonist in St. Louis before leaving in August 1911 to be trained at the Wright Brothers school in Ohio.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=swjGdOIu06QC&q=andrew+drew Orville's Aviators:Outstanding Alumni of the Wright Flying School 1910-1916] by John Carver Edwards, c.2009 Introduction page 10; {{ISBN|978-0-78644227-0}}</ref> Later he worked as an instructor for his friend Max Lillie who owned and flew Wright type airplanes. He later served as Field Director at the Cicero Flying Field in Chicago from the spring of 1912 to October 1912.<ref>[http://www.lincolnbeachey.com/cicart.html CICERO FLYING FIELD;an article on the historic Chicago airfield] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060201033220/http://www.lincolnbeachey.com/cicart.html |date=February 1, 2006 }} by Carroll Gray, aviation historian</ref> On June 12, 1913, at Lima, Ohio he took off in a Wright Model B and at 600 feet his gas tank exploded and rode the wreck down to his death.<ref>[http://www.earlyaviators.com/edrew.htm EarlyAviators.com; Andrew Drew]</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10740211/andrew-drew-dies-from-200-fall-but/ |title=An Air Joy Ride Fatal |newspaper=The Coffeyville Daily Journal |location=Lima, Ohio |page=8 |date=June 13, 1913 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.lincolnbeachey.com/av3page591x852.jpg Portrait of Andrew Drew and his fellow pilots (Carroll Gray collection)] * {{sports links}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Drew, Andrew}} Category:1885 births Category:1913 deaths Category:American male tennis players Category:Olympic tennis players for the United States Category:Tennis players at the 1904 Summer Olympics Category:Place of birth missing Category:Date of birth missing Category:Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1913 Category:20th-century American sportsmen Category:Accidental deaths in Ohio