James Leslie
McGough
Male
Australia
1882-03-17
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1940-11-01
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
From The Mercury (Hobart), 2 November 1940
Obituary
Former tennis champion – Mr James L. McGough
Mr James Leslie McGough, of Melville Street, Hobart, formerly tennis champion of Tasmania, and for many years an officer in the State Public Service, died yesterday in his 59th year.
Born in Hobart, Mr McGough first won the singles championship of Tasmania in 1900, when he was 17 years of age. He won the singles title on 13 occasions, the men’s doubles 10 times, and the mixed doubles championship on several occasions. He participated in interstate matches, and it is considered that his graceful, natural style would have gained him Davis Cup honours had he had more opportunities of meeting first-class players. Mr McGough took part in tournament tennis until middle life, and he continued to be a player in recent years. He was also a tennis coach.
Mr McGough entered the Public Service in 1898 as a clerk in the Public Works Department. He was Secretary to the Minister for Lands and Works from 1907 until 1911, and then was appointed Secretary of the Closer Settlement Board. In 1919, he became permanent Head of the Closer Settlement and Returned Soldiers’ Settlement Department, and later he also became Assistant Secretary of Lands. He retired after the amalgamation of the Lands and Survey and Closer Settlement departments in 1932. He was a popular and efficient officer.
Mr McGough is survived by his wife [née Mary Kathleen Drummond Walker] and two children.
1900 - 1923
13
45
40
1920 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1919 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1914 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1913 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1912 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1910 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1908 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1907 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1906 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1905 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1903 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1902 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
1900 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)
Round 1
Arthur Garfield H. Illingworth 1 *
James Leslie McGough
w.o.
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
H.M. Bell
w.o.
Quarterfinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
C.W. Cox
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Eric Mulvihill Johnson
6-1
6-1
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Roy McLean Crawford
6-0
6-2
6-2
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Francis Herbert (Frank) Stephens
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Captain R.A. Boyd
6-0
6-1
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Walter Joseph Stephens
3-6
6-3
6-1
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
William Joseph (Bill) Sheehan
w.o.
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Thomas Alfred Clifton Allanby
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Thomas William Newton
6-2
6-1
Final
Horace Rice 1 *
James Leslie McGough
6-4
2-6
6-3
3-6
6-3
Challenge Round
Harry Samuel Lewis Barclay 1 *
James Leslie McGough
7-5
6-1
6-1
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Walter Joseph Stephens
6-3
6-0
Quarterfinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
R.B. Moore
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Thomas William Newton
6-1
6-2
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
James Lambert Hudson
6-1
6-3
6-0
Challenge Round
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Frederick Ernest Down
6-3
6-4
6-2
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Thomas William Newton
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
H.B. Moore
6-1
6-0
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Sydney Rushbrook Dickenson
6-2
6-2
6-3
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Alexander Frederick Robert Scott
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
William Joseph (Bill) Sheehan
6-0
6-0
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Thomas William Newton
6-1
6-1
6-1
Challenge Round
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Dr. Sweetnam
6-2
6-3
6-1
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Cecil Davison McGough
6-1
6-2
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Richard Erasmus Holmes
w.o.
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Frederick William Ratten
6-1
8-6
8-6
Challenge Round
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Frederick William Ratten
7-5
16-14
6-2
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Cecil Davison McGough
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Frederick William Ratten
6-1
6-2
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
James Lambert Hudson
4-6
6-3
6-0
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Lewis Ransom Freeman
6-1
6-1
6-0
Challenge Round
Harry Alabaster Parker 1 *
James Leslie McGough
6-0
6-0
6-0
Challenge Round
James Leslie McGough 1 *
E.R. Burgess
6-0
6-2
6-3
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
bye
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Harold Bentley Holmes
6-3
6-3
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Leslie Ernest Morgan
6-2
3-6
6-1
Challenge Round
Edgar Thomas Barnard 1 *
James Leslie McGough
6-4
0-6
6-4
Round 1
James Leslie McGough 1 *
bye
Semifinals
James Leslie McGough 1 *
P. Hudson
6-4
6-4
Final
James Leslie McGough 1 *
Leslie Ernest Morgan
6-0
2-6
8-6