Lou 'Baby' Jones was a pioneer rugby league player in the Australian competition - the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. A forward, Louis Jones played two seasons for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years 1908-1909. Jones played in Eastern Suburbs first match, and, although a reserve, is recognised as one of the first Australian representatives to come from the Eastern Suburbs club which included Dally Messenger. Lou Jones, who played in two test matches for Kangaroo's, was the scorer of the winning try in Australia,'s first test match victory. Jones also went on the first 'Kangaroo tour', although not playing in any of the tests, he did play in five tour matches against English county sides. Jones has the distinction of representing Eastern Suburbs, NSW and Australia in their first matches, scored the winning try in Australia's first test match victory against New Zealand as well as going away on the first 'Kangaroo Tour'. He is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 22. The forward is recognised as the 7th player to play for Eastern Suburbs.