Russell Babington
Keays
Male
Australia
1877-07-06
Footscray, Victoria, Australia
1923-09-01
Yokohama, Japan
Attended Geelong College in Victoria from 1891 to 1893, playing in the 1st Football Team of 1893. He donated the original Tennis Honour Boards for installation in Norman Morrison Memorial hall in 1915. A woolbuyer.
In 1923, he, along with Thomas Southam Hawkes, father of the renowned sportsmen Jack Bailey Hawkes (1899-1990) and Tom Bailey Hawkes (1898-1948) who both attended the School, was tragically killed in an earthquake in Yokohama, Japan.
1905 - 1915
0
10
5
Round 1
Russell Babington Keays 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Russell Babington Keays 1 *
Sergeant Guy Hamilton Cotter
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
John Bailey (Jack) Hawkes 1 *
Russell Babington Keays
7-5
1-6
7-5
Round 1
Alfred Dunlop 1 *
Russell Babington Keays
6-4
6-2
Round 1
Arthur Roy Taylor 1 *
Russell Babington Keays
6-2
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Russell Babington Keays 1 *
Henry Francis De Little
2-6
6-4
6-2
Semifinals
Russell Babington Keays 1 *
Stanley Richard Roebuck
6-4
6-4
Final
Alfred Dunlop 1 *
Russell Babington Keays
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Russell Babington Keays 1 *
Stanley Richard Roebuck
6-3
10-8
Semifinals
Thomas Whitalaw (Tom) Tatchell 1 *
Russell Babington Keays
6-2
6-4