Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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The Second Cricket XI An enthusiastic and lively bunch of boys assembled for the first practice in a biting wind. Most had never played Cricket before. Some learned how to bat, some how to bowl, and they all learned how to field and catch. A cricket ball into an ungloved hand from 50 feet hurts when you are cold. We lost the first two matches to Upper Canada College in the cold of the early season while we were still learning the game. Our best games were against Ridley with whom we shared the points, and against Hillfield whom we defeated easily. The final game of the season was an exciting and very close game with TCS which we just lost. FRONT ROW: Brooks. Cole, McGuiness, Jaciw, Johnson. Gilchrist, Sutherland. Fife I. BACK ROW: Mr. Berriman. Coxon, Scott, Appleby, Hickling, Hewitt, Lanch. Well done second team - all of you, you learned how to play Cricket, and you played it well. The Third team only played four matches this season, two with Ridley, one with U.C.C. and one The Third Cricket XI FRONT ROW: Kay, Cockell, Shaw. Dorion, Fife II. Boyd. BACK ROW Mr. Boyd. Giffin, Stewart, Hughes, Stark, Thurley. with S.A.C. Of these two were lost, and two were favourably drawn. In spite of this, some promising features appeared. Stephen Fife, Tom Hughes, Barry Kay, Adam Boyd, David Dorion, Jon Stark each scored ten runs or more in an innings. This means that there is a good nucleus of run-getters for the first team next year. Of our bowlers, Bill Griffin, Adam Boyd, Matthew Thurley and Paul Stewart have all taken wickets, so it looks as though next year ' s attack will have variety and skill. The general level of enthusiasm has been very high so that the future prospects look very bright. 150

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The First Cricket XI The team has had a most en- joyable and successful season, in spite of the fact that it started very badly on the playing fields of U.C.C. on the last bitter Satur- day in April. As the sun came out and warmed our backs every player began to show real im- provement. Our success has been built on a varied array of skilful bowlers. Tim Pike, after converting from a stumbling run-up into a rhymical approach to the wicket, developed speed and accuracy. He successfully demoralized most opposing batsmen. Opening with him was Hueton, a wily and accurate left arm bowler who teared batsmen ' s off stumps with tireless accuracy. The openers were ably supported by Gerald Baiz ' fast improving off- spinners, Glen Wright ' s steady medium pace swingers and cut- ters, and David Burke ' s left arm in-swingers. Stephen McBride was a reliable ' stopper ' behind the stumps, but in such a short season he never learned to stand up and ' attack ' the batsman from behind. By contrast the batting showed itself to be woefully inept at the beginning of the season. We scraped 53 miserly runs in an- swer to U.C.C. ' s 140 in our first game, and a timid 39 in response to their 50 in the return. However with the arrival of May and the sun things changed. At Ridley, after being put in, we declared at 95 for 7 and against S.A.C. we scored 36 for 2 in response to their 33. The climax of the season was undoubtedly our match with T.C.S. In response to their 103 for 4, we collapsed feebly to 14 for 3. Yet Glen Wriaht and Tim Pike refused to FRONT ROW: Burke. Durst, Holland. Washington. Baiz. Gray. BACK ROW: Mr. Nightingale, Wright, McBride, Smith, Pike, Hueton, Stevenson, Bund- schuh. Jamie Washington then came in and with great composure set about the bowling so that by the time he was out the score was 95 and victory was in sight. David Stevenson and Gerald Baiz scored the remaining runs together, and the victory was by a margin of 4 wickets with about five minutes to spare. i The final game was with the Fathers who, hearing of our fear- some attack, turned out to prac- tice in the nets. As a result they showed their power by scoring a massive 143 in response to which the school could only raise 86. Thus ended a season marked by tremendous enthusiasm and a fine team spirit form a group of boys who each gave their very best and followed the directions of their captain, Stephen McBride, with great good humour. M.N. surrender meekly; they settled down to play correctly and carefully, but they hit the loose balls hard. When Wright was out the score was 64, and they had made 50 fine runs together. 149

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The Fourth Cricket XI Led by Captain Louis Gratton, the Fourth team enjoyed a highly successful season. We began on a winning note by defeating U.C.C. Fourth team by two wickets. Our two games against Ridley were both successes. It is noteworthy to mention that in the second of the two games, Meredith scored seventeen runs and took nine wickets, thanks to Morgan ' s five fine catches. Next, we travelled to Hillfield and after a dismal batting effort managed to squeak a victory due to some alert fielding. Our final opponent of the season was U.C.C. Third team. Again, alert fielding by all and steady bowling by Gratton and Morgan, enabled us to keep U.C.C. ' s score to a respectable 68. After a shaky start, we settled down to more consistent batting. Our total slowly mounted. It was ■■ - FRONT ROW: Bates, Meredith, Toles II, Morgan, Freeman, Gordon I, Mueller II. BACK ROW: Mr. Bailey, Gratton, McNair, Johnston, Tasi, Sutton. until the second-last over that we were all out for 63, with Tasi leading the batting with 16 an exciting finish to a very fine During the season much ex- The Fifth Cricket XI FRONT ROW: Strucken, Phillips, Yates, Gregory. BACK ROW: Mr. Bailey. Hamilton, Hughes III, McKenzie. penenoe was gained by all team members. Although -the games against Ridley were lost, they were well played and indicated some promising talents for future Appleby teams. Strucken, Toles and Hamilton all showed good bowling ability. McKenzie, Sch- midt and Stalder are developing into fine batsman. A good effort by all players. 151