Between the wars
Australia · born 1904 · died 1976 · right-handed · Australian champion 1930 and a winner of all three men's events at the Australian Championships
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Men's events won at the Australian Championships: singles, doubles and mixed
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Australian titles, 1929 to 1934
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Australian Championships finals, 1928 to 1934
6-3, 6-1, 6-3
His 1930 final win over Harry Hopman
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Davis Cup singles record, 1930
Edgar Forest Moon, known as Gar, was born on 3 December 1904 and grew up in Queensland. His parents introduced him to tennis, and although Brisbane Grammar School encouraged him to play cricket he preferred tennis, practising on his parents' clay court and against his family at Caboolture, where his father had a dairy farm. He was largely self-taught. He joined the East Brisbane club in 1923, moved to Toombul and helped it to its first pennant in 1926.
In 1928 he toured abroad with Jack Cummings, reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and played the US mixed final with Edith Cross. His first national title came in January 1929, the Australian mixed doubles with Daphne Akhurst at Memorial Drive, Adelaide. In 1930 at Kooyong he won the Australian singles, beating Harry Hopman 6-3, 6-1, 6-3, and that year he played two Davis Cup ties for Australia, against Switzerland and Ireland, winning all four of his singles. In 1932 he won the Australian doubles with Jack Crawford, completing the set of men's titles, and in 1934 a second mixed title with Joan Hartigan.
He enlisted in the Australian Army in March 1942, rose to corporal and was discharged in November 1945. He died in Brisbane on 26 May 1976, aged 71.
| Australian doubles finals | 1928 with Jim Willard: lost to Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon 2-6, 6-4, 4-6, 4-6. 1929 with Jack Cummings: lost to Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman 1-6, 8-6, 6-4, 1-6, 3-6. 1932 with Crawford: beat Hopman and Gerald Patterson 12-10, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 at Memorial Drive, Adelaide. 1933 with Crawford: lost to Ellsworth Vines and Keith Gledhill 4-6, 8-10, 2-6 |
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| Australian mixed finals | 1929 with Daphne Akhurst: beat Jack and Marjorie Crawford 6-0, 7-5. 1934 with Joan Hartigan: beat Ray Dunlop and Emily Hood Westacott 6-3, 6-4 at White City, Sydney |
| Hopman's three finals | His 1930 win over Harry Hopman was the first of three Australian finals in a row that Hopman lost; Crawford beat him in 1931 and 1932 |
| Abroad, 1928 | Fourth round of the Wimbledon singles on his first tour. US mixed final with Edith Cross, lost to Helen Wills and Jack Hawkes 1-6, 3-6 |
| Australian Championships | ||
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| 1929 | Mixed doubles | with Daphne Akhurst |
| 1930 | Men's singles | |
| 1932 | Men's doubles | with Jack Crawford |
| 1934 | Mixed doubles | with Joan Hartigan |
| Queensland Championships | ||
| 1932 | Men's singles | |
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Caboolture, Queensland
At Brisbane Grammar School he was encouraged to play cricket, but he preferred tennis on his parents' clay court. He taught himself largely by playing against his family at Caboolture, where his father had a dairy farm.
Source: Wikipedia, citing the Western Mail, Perth, 13 February 1930Brisbane, 1923 to 1926
He joined the East Brisbane club in 1923 and then moved to Toombul, which he helped to its first pennant in 1926. With the support of the umpire Cam Hammond he came to be seen as a Davis Cup prospect.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon, 1928
His first experience abroad came in 1928 on a tour with Jack Cummings. He reached the fourth round of the singles at Wimbledon, and later that summer played the US mixed final with Edith Cross.
Source: WikipediaDavis Cup, 1930
His only Davis Cup year was 1930, when he played the ties against Switzerland and Ireland and won all four of his singles matches.
Source: Wikipedia, citing the ITF Davis Cup player record1942 to 1945
He enlisted in the Australian Army on 17 March 1942, at the age of 37, reached the rank of corporal and was discharged on 12 November 1945.
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