Joseph Croswell
Blair
Male
Australia
1880-08-27
South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia
1946-09-23
Malvern, Victoria, Australia
From The Age (Melbourne), 24 September 1946
Obituary
Death of Mr Joseph C. Blair – Executive and sportsman
Mr Joseph C. Blair, for 41 years a member of the staff of the Vacuum Oil Company – and for 7 years up to May last the deputy chairman of the company in Melbourne – died yesterday at his home at Glenferrie Road, Malvern. He was 66 years old. His retirement from the position of deputy chairman of the Vacuum Oil Company took place last May.
Keenly interested in sport, he was a prominent athlete as a youth. In tennis he won the Victorian mixed doubles championship. He was captain of his college football club, and a member of the South Melbourne League team. In later life he became a bowls champion and a captain of a number of inter-state teams.
Mr Blair was a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, a justice of the peace, a member of the C.T.A. Athenaeum, Rotary and Constitutional clubs. He leaves a widow [née Mabel Scott] and one son, Mr Sydenham Scott Blair, who is a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club district side.
1900 - 1920
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41
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1903 - South Australian Championships ()
Round 1
William Sydney Carr 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
4-6
6-0
6-1
Round 2
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
A.H. Nevitt
6-0
6-1
Quarterfinals
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
E.V. Chapman
6-2
6-1
Semifinals
Norman Roberts 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-3
10-8
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
bye
Round 2
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
William Joseph (Bill) Sheehan
6-2
6-2
6-4
Quarterfinals
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Samuel Percival England
8-6
1-6
8-6
7-5
Semifinals
Rodney Heath 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-2
6-2
6-1
Round 2
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
DeBurgh Bannatyne Bentinck Persse
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Clarence Todd 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-2
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Horace Rice 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-3
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Gordon Wright 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Stanley Doust 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
5-7
7-5
6-3
6-2
Round 2
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
S. Upton
6-2
7-5
6-4
Round 3
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
H. Henderson
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Frank Fisher 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-4
6-0
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
William Maxwell Bowie Mowbray
6-3
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Tony Wilding 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-2
6-2
3-6
6-3
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Alfred Dunlop 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-1
6-3
6-1
Round 1
Robert George Bowen 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-4
2-6
6-3
3-6
6-0
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Arthur Hereward Nevett
6-2
6-4
Semifinals
Norman Brookes 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Lionel Watson Hack
6-1
6-3
6-0
Semifinals
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Gustave (Gus) Heinrich
6-3
6-3
7-5
Final
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Robert George Bowen
6-2
6-4
4-6
5-7
6-2
Challenge Round
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Cecil Vincent Heath
4-6
6-1
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
R.W.S. Dickson
6-2
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Norman Brookes 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-0
6-0
6-4
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
G. Chrisp
7-5
7-5
6-3
Quarterfinals
Thomas Carlyle Irving 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-2
4-6
3-6
6-3
8-6
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Gus Kearney
w.o.
Semifinals
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Henry Francis De Little
6-1
6-8
6-2
Final
Andrew Bernard (Barney) Murphy 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-2
6-4
7-9
6-2
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Charles Gilbert Marriott Watson
6-3
4-6
6-2
2-6
6-4
Quarterfinals
Alfred Dunlop 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-2
6-1
6-3
Round 1
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Joseph Croswell Blair 1 *
Henry Francis De Little
7-5
6-4
Semifinals
Alfred Dunlop 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-3
6-0
Round 2
Eric Pockley 1 *
Joseph Croswell Blair
6-8
6-4
6-0
6-1