Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story

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Jack Crawford was one of Australias great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton sportsmen who achieved success around the Great Depression and
were greatly loved by an Australian public seeking some reprieve from the economic struggles faced by all. In 1933 Crawford won the Australian Championship, (one of four), the French Championship, and Wimbledon, and was just one match away from winning tenniss Grand Slam for the first time, losing the US Open to the English great, Fred Perry in five sets.Gentleman Jack tells the story of Crawfords wonderful sporting career, but also gives a detailed account of the achievements of some his rivalsEllsworth Vines, Fred Perry, and Donald Budgechampions of the game during one of its greatest decades. This was also that time
the Davis Cup reached new levels of intensity and the Australian Championships became acknowledged as a significant world event.

Gentleman Jacks author Richard Naughton is one of Australias pre-eminent tennis historians. He has previously written acclaimed biographies of Norman Brookes (The Wizard), Daphne Akhurst (Daphne Akhurst, the women behind the trophy) and Ken Rosewall (Muscles).

Jack was one of the worlds best a favourite wherever he played Sir Norman Brookes

It is important that Australias tennis history,and the stories of the great players of thepast are preserved and protectedKen Rosewall

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Richard Naughton is a Melbourne-based legal academic and writer. A teaching associate in the Monash law faculty he is undertaking research into Australias industrial relations system. He has written several notable sporting biographiesThe Wizard, the story of Norman Brookes (2011); Muscles, the story of Ken Rosewall, Australias little master of the courts (2012); and Daphne Akhurst, the woman behind the trophy (2021).