Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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First Cricket Sandwiched between successful matches with Ridley was a series of defeats, two of them heavy. However the scoresheets do not tell the whole story of th e season ' s cricket. Tremendous advances in individual technique have been made and the team has played very well together giving encouragement to each other when mistakes have been made and praise when good results have been achieved - and, most important of all, morale has been high in adversity. The bowlers have made great strides. Bill Giffin has smoothed out his action and is becoming a menacing fast bowler, while Tom Hughes, Eric Morgan, Louis Gratton and Adam Boyd have all had their successes. Each one has a sound enough technique to enable him to continue next year. Our batting has shown great promise in the nets, but the ten- sion of the ' middle ' has caused too much rashness and old m m ■ f nt mm. -■k - FRONT ROW: Boyd, Shaw, Freeman I, Morgan, Dorion, Kay, Gratton. BACK ROW: Neumann, Stewart, Fife II, Giffin, Hughes, Goddard I, Stark, Mr. Nightingale. habits have too frequently recurred. How difficult it is to school oneself ball by ball! While a bowler can take a wicket after bowling a wide, a batsman has no second chance. Nevertheless, Don Freeman, David Dorion and Bill Giffin have shown that they will soon be scoring many runs, and Tim Shaw, Stephen Fife and Jeff Goddard have shown an eagerness to hit the ball hard. It is unfortunate that the cricket season is so short, for I believe that given a little longer, en- thusiasm and ability of this team would have been turned to good account. Nevertheless it has been a rewarding and enjoyable season and I am sure that many of these boys will make their mark in Senior School Teams. M.N.

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Second Cricket FRONT ROW: Jenkin, Susfronk. Meredith, Crawford, S. Hughes, Locke. BACK ROW; Mr. Bailey, Tasi, Paletta, Powls, Benson, Johnson. Third Cricket This year ' s second XI has successfully completed a highly competitive season. The team was a good mixture of boys with some cricket experience and a handful who had never held a cricket ball before. Of the latter, Powis, Sustronk and Locke played exceptionally well. Paletta and Benson also began to play more con- fidently as the seaso n came to a close. Throughout the season, Meredith, John- son and Hughes shared the bowling responsibilities. In our opening game against Ridley our inexperience proved to be our downfall. With the exception of Meredith who managed nine runs, we were all out for a dismal seventeen; not exactly a positive note to take the field by. However, by The Third Cricket Team was a lively com- bination of veterans and rookies who provided at times brilliant, and at times amusing displays of proficiency at the sport. Those boys familiar with the game had an opportunity to improve their skills and to test their performance in the matices. The boys new to the game, after overcoming their awkwardness with the batting technique, the way the ball is bowled, and the various other ec- centricities, quickly reached the level of the others. FRONT ROW: Headley, Toles, Sullivan, Strucken, Trupke, Gordon. BACK ROW: Hueton, Fretwell, Bates, Mr. Snowden, O ' Hearn, Ryan, J. Hughes, Sopinka. Fourth Cricket We had quite a successful season. We began with a strong field and weak bat- smen and ended with a strong batsmen. Our captain, Steve Mann, led the squad with superb fielding and directed our sportsmanlike team on the field with smoothness. Our bowlers - Waddell, Freeman II, and Nightingale - all performed well, with Waddell gaining the edge in wickets taken. FRONT ROW: Sidford. Ross, Appleby, Mann, Thomson, Nightingale. BACK ROW Chapman, Waddell, Vernon I, Wood, Senst, Freeman. Mr. Boyd.