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Age and Experience at the Helm of Caulfield District
Association
"Doc" Fox is
Great Worker
Truly
there if. a mote interesting personality
in cricket than Mr Dave F.
F
Fox, the popular and energetic
president
of the Caulfleld Districts Association,
I would like to meet him.
This wonderful old sport is nearing
Die three-quarter century mark, and is
active as most men of thirty.
Ho is
Still able to act as hon. scorer to visiting
Interstate aides and colts, and more
ll,gn likely for the
visiting
English
women's team.
Mr Fox was born at Fitzroy, and playrj
his cricket as a youth for South
Melbourne with "Teddie" Heather, Jim
Slight (Aust. XI. player), and another
Australian XI. player In W. H. Cooper,
also with Jack, Chas and Harry Rosscr,
who also were senior footballers.
When playing for a South Club XL
his team mates included Warwick Armstrong's
father and "Digger" Robertson,
flic first man to introduce the "wrong
'un."
When 18 he visited Beechworth under
the captaincy of Ted Heather, with the
late Archie Yullle as vice-captain. In
those days South played 1879 thfv" against 18
country lads, and on this trip, which
incidentally was in 1879,
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the;
i ' " S F j i w,,u
up » 'Iu-' ij
up against a player M j r ^ ' I
went through the side, and later came
» the city to play, for East MeWne.
On another occasion he was asked to I
bowl against a well-known batsmen
Who had 126 on the board. Taking the
ball and feeling nervous, he pitched up
a ball that was nearly a wide. The
champion reached for it and was caught.
As Mr Fox finished with 7-10 he won a
reputation immediately.
Giving up cricket, he was captain Hnd
secretary of Melbourne lacrosse club,
oid not miss playing one game from
Itwo to 1888.
He also was secretary of the Victorian
lacrosse Association, and was in teams
to BaUarat and Bendigo. As a tennis
Player he was quite good, and in a
handicap tournament at Melbourne he
met H. Bartram, a top-notch player, and
they staged the record rally of 104 returns.
Mr Fox came back-to cricket in 1900,1
o
after finishing with tennis and lacrosse,
and since has managed several Colt s
& o n . aUrvi:C.A!^OU^Eu?o n a d ' C
and in 1931 he took a team to Beech-I
worth, and renewed friendships formed I
on his 1879 visit with South Melbourne. I
mi s «s an opportunity to f
see the Colts and schoolboys in action. I
u
?,
m J> ,r^ !or
nine days,m
when Victorian schoolboys met NS.W. ,
„P- lounaation f
? member of the ', hc Caulfield in H
Districts Association and the VJ C A
he has held pracUcallyeve^ posiuin in i
junior crisket, and y is iSprcscnWive !
, ,,
„ T„It
,
f 1116
VJ.C.U. on the Sub-District Alociation.
He is a life member of every
lUb
and
liable,
and
' cvery crlcket door
in
**
Commonwealth
is open to him.
,t would require reams
to
write
^
ull history of Mr Fox, so let it suffice
when I say he is one of the best versed
en in cricket affairs in the Commonwealth,
and among the most popular.
is circle of 08
cricket cricked friends ' ranV
8 ^ be
ween the of 10and ion
A truly
worked for ft* L
he
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Dave Fox Help
Dave Fox
Junior Cricket Conducted by J. M. ROHAN
The Caulfield District's Cricket Association has
been in existence since 1909, the first meeting being
convened on August 19, 1909, by Mr O. Kaines, who
was the first secretary.
The original clubs were St. George's, East Caulfield,
Heatherton, Oakleigh and Ormond, and it was not
long before teams from as far as Frankston joined.
So many clubs were founded in the district that it became
necessary to form another Association to absorb
them, and the Frankston-Glenhuntly competition
came into being in 1924.
With 24 clubs playing in first and second grades,
things went along nicely for a while, but new clubs
sprang up in such numbers that the Oakleigh District
Association was formed.
In 1927 it was necessary to form a "C" Grade, and now 49
clubs are under the jurisdiction of the Association. Few districts
can boast of raising so many teams and placing them, with the
utmost harmony reigning throughout.
The Association has its own system of handling umpires, and
complete satisfaction is felt in all clubs at the way its affairs are
controlled.
When the life stories of responsible officials whose photos
are on this page are read, it will easily be understood why the
affairs of the Caulfield Districts Association have prospered.
Numbered among the many patrons are the Victorian Amateur
Turf Club, Mr H. S. Gullett, M.H.R., Mr Vinton Smith,
M.L.A., the Mayors of Caulfield, Camberwell and Malvern, and
the famous horseman, Billy Duncan.
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