Edgar Moon

Edgar "Gar" Moon (3 December 1904 in Forest Hill, NSW Australia – 26 May 1976) was a former tennis player from Australia. He's best known for winning the 1930 Australian Championships Men's Singles title. He also won the 1932 Men's Doubles title with Jack Crawford. He won all three Men's titles at the Australian Championships.

Moon won his first national title at the 1929 Open when he teamed up with Daphne Akhurst to win the Mixed Doubles championship. In 1934, he won the Mixed Doubles title for a second time with partner, Joan Hartigan.

In 1930, Gar Moon won the Australian Open Men's Singles championship defeating Harry Hopman in the finals 6–3, 6–1, 6–3. In 1932 the native of Queensland completed the triple, capturing the Men's Doubles title with partner, Jack Crawford.

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    If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimism ... it was surely Edgar Allan Poe—without question the bravest and most original, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)