Rice Gemmell

Rice Thomas Hopkins Gemmell was an Australian tennis player, born in Caulfield, Victoria, in 1896 and died in 1972. Living in Claremont, Western Australia, by 1916, he enlisted in the First World War as a bombardier. He is best known for winning the men's singles title at the 1921 Australasian Championships, held at Perth, where he beat Alf Hedeman in the final, and in the same year he also won the men's doubles with Stanley Eaton. He was Western Australia's top player through the 1920s. In 1924 he opened a store selling sports equipment with the fellow player Keith McDougall, and he turned professional in 1927. In 1932 he became a gold miner, in 1940 he survived a car crash in which the driver died, and he is buried at Tewantin, Queensland.