OBITUARY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1941, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR C. C. COX. EX-MASTERTON, RESIDENT. The death occurred last week at Barwon Heads. Victoria, of Mr Cecil Cleeve 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 threequarter. 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 cham-’ pionship and also the Dominion singles championship and doubles. In the following year he won the New Zealand singles, *and the doubles again with J. U. 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 R. W. Heath, when partnered by H. A, Parker, in the New Zealand doubles in 1906. Wilding haid just returned from England and Heath was an Australian champion. From, 1910 to 1917 Mi - 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 E. G. Boddy in 1931. He was also associated with Boddy in winning the Otago doubles championship in the two succeeding season. Mr Cox is survived by his wife, two daughters and one son.