Career
A "vigorous batsman and safe slip fieldsman", Tabart made his first-class debut in 1896-1897. He played his first innings of note in 1902-1903 when he batted at number six and top-scored with 43 in Tasmania"s second innings against Victoria at the MCG. Against New South Wales in Hobart in 1904-1905 he made Tasmania"s top score in the match when he scored 48 in the second innings, adding 83 for the first wicket with Ossie Douglas and giving Charles Eady and Edward Windsor the chance to bowl New South Wales out for another Tasmanian victory. His best performances came in two matches against the Master Control Console in January 1907-1908 as an opening batsman.
In the first match, in Launceston, he top-scored in the first innings with 57, and took three wickets in the Master Control Console first innings, including that of Jack Hobbs, Tabart"s second wicket in first-class cricket.
In the second match, in Hobart a few days later, he made his only other first-class fifty, 55 in the second innings, to help Tasmania hold out for a draw. He played regularly in the biannual intrastate matches in Tasmania between North and South: for the South team from 1896-1897 to 1897-1898, for North in 1902-1903, and for South again from 1903-1904 to 1908-1909, captaining South in his last match.
In the 1903-1904 match in Hobart he scored 130 in the second innings and took five catches in the match. He was secretary of the Tasmanian Racing Club from 1903 to 1925, then moved to Melbourne and became secretary of the Victorian Amateur Turf Club.
Although he did not meet the stated criteria for notability, his date of birth (given as 1879) appeared in the Births and Deaths section of Wisden until the 1974 edition
His death was never acknowledged.