Ernest Parker

Full name: Ernest Frederick Parker
Nickname: Ernie

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Bio	Gifted all-rounder sportsman Ernest Parker was simultaneously Western Australian’s best cricketer and tennis player in the years before World War I. Lack of opportunities due to Perth’s isolation from other sporting centres prevented him from competing at international level. A fluent right-hand batsman with a wide repertoire of strokes, he played in 11 matches for WA from 1905-09, scoring 804 runs (average 36.54) with two centuries and four 50s. His 116 against South Australia at Fremantle in 1905-06 was the first century by a WA player in first-class cricket. He had to travel by ship to the Eastern States to play in two Test trials in 1908-09 and though he made 77 and 61 he was not picked in the Australian team for the 1909 tour of England. Parker played club cricket for Corinthians, Wanderers and East Perth. In 1902-03 he became the first batsman to top 1000 first-grade runs in a season with a total of 1003. Before failing eyesight forced him to give up cricket he made 19 first-grade centuries with a highest score of 246. Both are still WA pennant records. He twice reached the final of the men’s singles when the Australasian tennis championships were played in Perth. In 1909 he lost to New Zealand’s four-times Wimbledon champion Anthony Wilding, but made amends in 1913 when he beat his NSW namesake Harry Parker in four sets at Mueller Park, Subiaco. Parker also won two Australasian men’s doubles titles – with John Keane in 1909 and Alf Hendeman in 1913. Between 1903 and 1913 he captured eight WA men’s singles and eight men’s doubles titles. In World War I Parker served with the AIF in the artillery. He died on active service in France in the last year of the war, not far from where his great rival Wilding was killed in action in 1915.

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6	Years Between The First And Last GS Appearance
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9	GS Final Appearances Representing The Same Nation
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