William Murdock
Stewart
Male
Australia
1881-00-00
Sale, Victoria, Australia
1947-02-20
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
From The Cairns Post, 21 February 1947:
William Murdoch Stewart, the well-known North Queensland saw miller and sportsman, of Tumoulin, died in Cairns yesterday, at the age of 66. He
was one of the outstanding axemen and cross-cut sawmen of North Queensland. He was born at Sale (Victoria) and came north as a young man. He established a sawmill at Tumoulin, but retired from active management of the mill a few years before his death, and left its management to his sons.
For some 30 years, Mr. Stewart had been an expert axeman, and even in the last years of his life was in championship class. He had competed in innumerable northern sawing and woodcutting contests. At the Cairns showgrounds, at an exhibition for Comforts Fund during the war, he and his son were reputed to have set a world’s record as a cross-cut saw team. He also gave exhibitions of axe-throwing earlier in his life. The late Mr. Stewart was an excellent tennis player and widely known in North Queensland tennis circles.
1922 - 1935
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10
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Round 1
William Murdock Stewart 1 *
bye
Round 2
William Hair 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
6-2
6-0
Round 1
W. Hill 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
6-0
6-3
Round 1
G.W. Wilson 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
6-2
6-3
Round 1
William Murdock Stewart 1 *
Arthur S. McNaught
2-6
6-4
7-5
Quarterfinals
Dr. C.L.C. Henry 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
3-6
7-5
10-8
Round 1
Frederick Joseph Routh 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
6-4
7-5
Round 1
Leonard Thurlow 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
6-0
6-0
6-0
Round 2
John William Tomlinson 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
6-1
6-4
Round 2
Arthur S. McNaught 1 *
William Murdock Stewart
6-4
6-1