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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 07, 1947
Page
4
The text describes a cricket match with players like Simpron and Taylor, mentions a trainer and performance, and notes a match at Mant Park on a first Sunday in March. It includes club secretaries and a subcommittee for a carnival with a date in March, but many names and details are garbled.
Saturday matches feature Old Boys Y.C.W. and C.W. Plist Innings with Davies, Enever, Stubbs, Simpson and O'Brien delivering for St Albans and Sunshine sides. Druids vs Sunshine on South Sunshine wicket with Doane, Ayton, Stubbs and Simpson among scorers. Second innings notes list Mulhearne, Patten, Melntyre and O'Trien contributions, with totals and extras varying across clubs and lineups.
Cramped scorecard shows M U L O F versus West Sunshine Mauloo in a drawn lead in the first innings. Kyle Jowett top scored with 70 for M U L O F while Elmer remained not out with 3 as the innings closed at 147. Shields and Banks shared wickets for West Sunshine Mauloo with Kyle taking 4/29 and Brown 3/67. Continued on Page Five.
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