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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1951
Page
7
On a fast wicket at Kew last Saturday Sunshine first eleven bowled well while batsmen misread pace and were all out for 66. Second Eleven fared 87 all out at Selwyn Park as Ken’s slow bowling troubled six locals. At stumps Kew 3 for 83 needing five to pass locals’ total.
Saturday matches opened with batsmen dominant as Harvesters posted 4/256 against 8.0.B and Waratah reached 9/190 against Keilor East. A Grade results show Druids 0/1 vs MUSOOF 189, Sunshine 4/22 vs St Albans, St Albion 5/47 vs Sunshine United 60, while B Grade features S.O.B. vs Harvesters 0/256, St Albans 2/70 vs East Sunshine 135, MUSOOF 33 vs Druids 0/117, Churchill 90 vs GUOOF.
A cricket report lists A grade batting leaders J Crook War 63 N McKinnon MU 44 E Hansen Albion 37 N Mc Arthur War 33 P Hewitt St A 29 and bowling leaders N Power Albion 6 20 J Caulfield Druids 4 27 G Power St A 3 12 R Rowe E Sun 3 16 T Milburn 3 36 L Pocholi Keilor 3 34. In B grade batting A Prewitt Harv 77 Hewitt Druids 40 n o Cox Harv 40 Byron Harv 30 D Ryan G U 30 D Mitchell Druids 27. Bowling P Cunningham G U 6 9 N Collings Churchill 5 20 R Stubbs SCB 4 41 R Guy MU 8 24 G Penny MU 3 30 D Ryan G U 3 4.
December results show Sunshine No 3 beating Williams Town 29 12 and 21 27 with a lucky win, while Sunshine 2 and Wood led by Perry and Sully posted multiple scorelines. No 3 holds a two game margin after the first round of home ventures as plans unfold for a social event before Christmas.
Bandits avenged an earlier defeat by beating the Saints 18 to 8 in a Saturday junior baseball match. St Johns improved with a 14 to 7 win over the Tigers. The year ends with a December 14 game and play resumes February 2.
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