Career
He finished his career in the VFA with Brunswick. He was the ground curator at the Essendon Cricket Ground (Windy Hill), an Essendon Football Club Committee member from 1944 to 1961, and its Vice-President from 1962 to 1973.
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Tom Clarke
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"A fine wingman whose only significant weakness was a slight lack of leg speed, a deficiency he helped overcome with excellent anticipation and smooth ball handling", Tom Clarke won Essendon"s best and fairest in 1931. His younger son, Ron Clarke, a champion athlete (who set seventeen world records), went on to win medals at the 1964 (Tokyo) Olympics, and at the Commonwealth Games in 1962 (Perth), 1966 (Kingston), and 1970 (Edinburgh).
