Cecil Cleve
Cox
Male
New Zealand
1875-07-15
Christchurch, New Zealand
1941-09-09
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
From The Wairarapa Times, 18 September 1941:
Obituary – Mr Cecil C. Cox – Ex-Masterton Resident
The death occurred last week at Barwon Heads, Victoria, of Mr Cecil Cleve Cox, at the age of 66. Mr Cox was a former well-known lawn tennis player. For some years he resided in Masterton, having been accountant at the local branch of the Bank of Australasia. He was an outstanding playing member of the Masterton Lawn Tennis Club and won several club championships.
During his residence in Masterton, the annual tennis tournaments in Masterton were attended by the most brilliant players in the Dominion, the Masterton Club’s courts being for years the great testing ground of Dominion players. He also played football in Masterton on several occasions, being a smart three-quarter. He took a keen interest in the volunteer movement, and was a member of the Fifth New Zealand Contingent which participated in the South African War.
The fourth son of Mr Charles Percy Cox, he was born at Mount Somers and was educated at Christ’s College. After leaving college he joined the service of the Bank of Australasia in January, 1892, and opened the Dannevirke branch as manager in 1910. Later he transferred to Australia and then joined the Dunedin branch as manager on transfer from Geelong. He retired in July, 1935.
Mr Cox had a remarkable record in lawn tennis. He took up the game when only nine years old, and in 1898 he won the Canterbury singles championship and also the Dominion singles championship and doubles. In the following year he won the New Zealand singles, and the doubles again with John Ulrich Collins. He was singles champion of Wellington in 1902-03-04, and was in the Wellington champion doubles team in 1903-04. In 1904 he was a member of a team which visited New South Wales and beat that State.
Perhaps his most notable performance was in beating Anthony Wilding and Rodney W. Heath, when partnered by Harold Parker, in the New Zealand doubles in 1906. Wilding had just returned from England and Heath was an Australian champion. From, 1910 to 1917 Mr Cox won several Hawke’s Bay championships, and from 1920 to 1927, while in Victoria, in addition to representing the State, he won several country championships.
While he was stationed in Dunedin, he won the South Island doubles championship with Edward G. Boddy in 1931. He was also associated with Boddy in winning the Otago doubles championship in the two succeeding seasons.
Mr Cox is survived by his wife, two daughters and one son.
1896 - 1924
10
87
66
1910 - Wairarapa Tournament (Amateur)
1908 - Wairarapa Tournament (Amateur)
1907 - Wellington Championships (Open)
1907 - Wairarapa Tournament (Amateur)
1904 - Wairarapa Tournament (Amateur)
1904 - Wellington Championships (Open)
1903 - Wellington Championships (Open)
1902 - Wellington Championships (Open)
1902 - Wairarapa Tournament (Amateur)
1898 - New Zealand Championships (Amateur)
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Hector Wallace
6-0
6-1
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Alexander Ernest Sandral
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
John Bailey (Jack) Hawkes 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-0
9-7
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frederick Ernest Down
w.o.
Round 2
Leslie Newburn Rainey 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-2
6-1
6-4
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
F.R. Crowther
6-1
6-1
6-0
Round 3
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frederick Elliott Von Frankenberg
6-2
2-6
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Samuel Percival England
6-3
6-3
1-6
6-3
Semifinals
John Bailey (Jack) Hawkes 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-2
6-4
6-1
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Leslie Norman Roebuck
3-6
6-4
6-3
Round 2
Dr. Keith Douglas Fairley 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
1-6
6-4
8-6
Round 1
Frank Fisher 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-1
6-4
7-5
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Edward Bristowe Waddington
6-0
6-1
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
William Goss
6-4
7-5
Quarterfinals
Geoffrey Morton Ollivier 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
P.W. Jackson
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
G. Mawley
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Charles Francis Quinnell
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Norman H. James
6-1
6-2
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
George Gothard Aitken
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
John S. Wilson
6-0
6-2
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Guy Francis Smythe
8-6
6-4
Final
Robert Newton King Swanston 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Harry Vaughan Howe
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Andrew Richmond Sclanders
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
L.W. Hawkins
6-3
6-0
Final
Tony Wilding 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
S.R. Warry
6-0
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Kelsey Illidge Newman
4-6
6-4
5-7
6-3
6-0
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Lindsay Todd
6-2
6-4
6-0
Semifinals
Harry Alabaster Parker 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-4
6-3
4-6
8-6
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
J. Hunter
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Arthur W. Young
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
P.W. Jackson
6-2
6-2
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
George Gothard Aitken
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
J. Howe
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frederick Reginald Laishley
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
John Peacock
6-5
6-4
Final
Frank Fisher 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Arthur W. Young
6-2
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
John Peacock 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
7-5
6-4
5-7
6-4
Round 1
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
F. Grady
6-0
6-1
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frank Fisher
6-1
2-6
8-6
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Thomas Jermingham Richard Quill
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Alexander Gladding Paul Wallace
6-3
6-4
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frederick Reginald Laishley
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Quarterfinals
Tony Wilding 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-2
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Frank Fisher 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-4
6-4
6-2
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
H. Reid
6-0
6-0
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
P.W. Jackson
6-2
6-5
Semifinals
Randolph Lycett 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Charles Saint George Gore
6-4
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Eric Pockley 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-4
6-3
4-6
6-4
Round 1
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Henry Erskine Tyser
6-3
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Harry Alabaster Parker 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-3
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
P.H. Blundell
6-1
6-0
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
J.C Smythe
6-4
6-1
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Charles Harrington Broad
6-5
5-6
6-3
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Arthur W. Young
6-0
6-3
Semifinals
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Robert Newton King Swanston
2-6
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Henry Erskine Tyser
6-3
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Harry Alabaster Parker 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-3
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
F.A. West
6-3
6-0
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Richard Clement Kirk
6-0
6-2
Final
Harry Alabaster Parker 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
7-5
6-1
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Cecil Francis Adams
7-5
6-2
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frederick Reginald Laishley
6-4
3-6
6-3
Round 1
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
J.F. Amies
6-2
6-0
6-4
Quarterfinals
Frederick Reginald Laishley 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
8-6
9-7
6-3
Round 1
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frederick Harold Bunny
6-0
6-2
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
S.R. Kennedy
6-0
6-2
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
James Cleland Burns
5-6
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Cecil Francis Adams
6-3
6-3
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Frederick Reginald Laishley
6-3
6-2
Round 2
John Peacock 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
7-5
1-6
8-6
6-2
Round 1
Quarterfinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Harry Alabaster Parker
4-6
6-3
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
Joy Marriott Marshall
8-6
8-6
6-4
Final
Cecil Cleve Cox 1 *
John Ulrich Collins
6-2
4-6
6-3
6-3
Round 2
James Richard Hooper 1 *
Cecil Cleve Cox
6-2
6-2
6-3