Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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The First Cricket XI FRONT ROW: Dickens. Jamieson, Jennings I, Sims, Taylor I. Mann, To. BACK ROW: Mr. Larsen, Morgan I, Merrift, Wetmore, Green I, Large, Mr. Dickens. Our first game was back in chilly April, when against the West St. Catherine ' s Club, Wetmore, Jamieson and Taylor batted very well to give us a total of 123, causing our opponents to fight for a draw. Next game we got Oakville B team out for 99 with Sims bowling well and then Merritt went to work, scoring 60 of the first 61 runs and leading us to a good win. A team garnered by the coach made the school bowling look average, but against batsmen looked very good indeed and swept to an ex- citing victory. Probably our most impressive win was against Gracechurch whom we beat by 5 wickets. The strongest team we faced all year was the Green- mantles who made mince-meat of our bowlers to score 154. But then, in their finest hour, Wet- more, Jamieson, Sims and To batted magnificently against very good bowling so that our mighty adversaries were very lucky to get a draw. With batting like that how could we ever lose to school boys! Obviously we were all set to sweep the ISAA! Oh vanity! All 106

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is vanity! We gave a hint of our fallibility against a weak St. An- drews team by scraping only 61 runs. Fortunately the bowlers, especially Ian Mann, aided by some great catching by Wet- more, rose to the occasion to give us a win. Then came the big game U.C.C. On a very hot day we fielded first and did very well to get a strong batting team out for 110. Then against wild, fast bowling from one end and ac- curate bowling from the other, we proceeded to disgrace our- selves. Only Merritt got double figures, the rest threw their wickets away. At T.C.S. all the bowlers bowled well as we got them out for 81, but now we had to rely on batsmen whose vulnerability on big occasions had been demonstrated. The im- portance of a good start was clearly shown as this time Wet- more dug in and gave a fine determined display to make 44 not out and so give us a win. When we faced Ridley, we needed only a draw or a win to give us second place in the ISAA, so we elected to bat first, intending to pile up the runs. But our batsmen revealed great ingenuity in getting out against very ordinary bowlers, so that our later batsmen had to scrape and scratch to put our score at 68 af- ter three hours. Our bowlers tried very hard but in a close game small mistakes make all the dif- ference, so that two dropped cat- ches lost the game in the final over. Looking back, it is apparent that this was a very successful season, in which we did not rely on one or two stars but had talent all the way through the team. To a few, special awards: for the unluckiest bowler - Ian Mann; biggest hitter - Chris Merritt; biggest range (from superb to awful) - Jim Wetmore; most stylish - Roland To; most im- proved - Ross Large; and greatest potential to go from 12th man to best bowler - Ed Dickens; and to an excellent captain, good all-rounder and fine young gen- tleman - Wayne Sims. The future looks good. Although we will lose six of this year ' s team, we have some good players coming up. With a tour to England in 76 to aim for, we must concentrate on eradicating those fundamental batting faults that caused our players to get out to poor bowling, and make it a tradition to come through - each one of us - in the big games. RECORD Played Won Drew Lost 12 5 4 3 BATTING Runs Innings Not Out Average Taylor 149 12 3 16.6 Sims 157 12 1 14.3 Merritt 134 10 13.4 Wetmore 136 12 1 12.4 Jamieson 144 12 12.0 BOWLING Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Dickens 8 3 6 4 Merritt 77 35 102 22 Sims 99 23 269 28 Mann 114 24 221 17 Large 38 7 133 10 Morgan 96 29 188 13 Average 1.5 4.6 9.6 13.0 13.3 13.9 The two awards by the Oakville Cricket Club: 1. To the best batsman - Peter Taylor 2. To the best bowler - Chris Merritt 107