# Andrew Drew

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{{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](/source/Lima%2C_Ohio), [Meigs County](/source/Meigs_County%2C_Ohio), Ohio
| resting_place             = [Calvary Cemetery](/source/Calvary_Cemetery_(St._Louis)) and Mausoleum, [Saint Louis, Missouri](/source/Saint_Louis%2C_Missouri), USA
| resting_place_coordinates = 
| other_names               = 
| occupation                = Tennis player, balloonist, aviator
| years_active              = 1904–1913 
}}

'''Andrew Drew''' (February 1885 &ndash; June 12, 1913)<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50473780/andrew Andrew Drew; findagrave.com]</ref> was an American [tennis](/source/tennis) player. He competed in the [men's singles](/source/Tennis_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_singles) and [doubles](/source/Tennis_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_doubles) events at the [1904 Summer Olympics](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Max_Lillie) who owned and flew Wright type airplanes. He later served as Field Director at the Cicero Flying Field in [Chicago](/source/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](/source/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>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.lincolnbeachey.com/av3page591x852.jpg Portrait of Andrew Drew and his fellow pilots (Carroll Gray collection)]
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Category:1885 births
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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

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