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Baseball
Claxton
Shield
to N.S.W.
NEW SOUTH WALES and South
Australia won the final games
in the Claxton Shield series yes-
terday, both winning to nil, and
New South Wales won the Shield,
with W.A. runners-up.
Good baseball was played by all the
teams, and concluded a carnival of
splendid incident in fine style.
Victoria v. S.A.
For the second time South Australia
whitewashed Victoria in the third team
against the fourth team match, South
Australia playing strongly to take ad-
vantage of a strong wind unsteadying
the fieldsman to score 15 safe hits
against four for Victoria.
Ron Sharpe, for South Australia,
pitched a good game, but Neither
Reece nor Higgins, who replaced
him in the second innings pitching
for Victoria, could hold South, for
whom O'Connell, in particular, bat-
ted brilliantly with four safe hits.
The teams:
South Australia: J. Hill (centrefield),
G. Hicks (left field), R.M. Sharpe,
captain (pitcher), K. Taylor (right
field), R. Moyle (short stop), P.
Brideoake (catcher), H. Norman (sec-
ond base), T.R. O'Connell (first base),
J. Noblet (third base).
Victoria: G.J. McCarthy (short
stop), C. Miller (left field), S. Quin
(right field), J. Plant, captain (first
base), H. Martin (third base), W. Lock-
lier (second base), C. Kerville (centre
field), J. Ferguson (catcher).
Scores:
South Australia: 0,3,1,1,0,3,1,0,x-9.
Victoria: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0-0.
x Did not bat.
SAFE HITS.
South Australia: O'Connell 4, Hicks
and Moyle 3, Sharpe 2, Taylor, Bride-
oake and Noblett.
Victoria: Quin, Lockleir, Martin,
Higgins.
N.S.W. v. W.A.
With fine batting New South Wales
defeated Western Australia by two
runs to nil, after a brilliant pitching
duel between Lanfear and Puckett, at
the end of which Puckett received the
Tom Smith Memorial Trophy for the
iron man of the carnival.
The teams:
New South Wales: S. Yum (left
field), K. Gulliver (short stop), H. Gor-
don (first base), N. Blanch (centre
field), T. Halligan (right field), H.
Goodwin (catcher), P. Payne (second
base), J. Lanfear (pitcher), W. Ran-
kin (third base).
Western Australia: L. Jones (centre
field), W. Nightingale (third base), G.
Dickenson (right field), D. Carr (short
stop), C. Puckett (pitcher), A.E. Bar
rass (first base), T. Nisbet (catcher),
A. Downing (right field), D. Gilmour
(second base).
Error by Rankin on third singled L.
Jones, W.A.'s lead-off batter first ball
of the game, but Nightingale flied to
Yum, left-field, and Dickenson, K 2,
and Carr out at first put the side away
for nil.
In N.S.W.'s first, Yum slammed back
to Puckett, who held it. Gulliver went
on three strikes, Gordon singled, then
Blanch, out at five, closed the hits--
a blank.
Second, third and fourth, hits like-
wise were blanks for both sides, then in
N.S.W.'s fifth a fielding error took
Payne who had singled, safe to third
bag, and a sacrifice fly by Yum scored
the first run of the game on Jones'
throw.
After a sixth W.A. shut-out an
error by Jones gave Blanch third with
two down, then Jones misjudged again,
running under a fly from Halligan, and
N.S.W. scored Blanch, McNamara then
replacing Jones.
Carr safetied with a superb bang to
left in the seventh, but again the side
went for nil.
The Cornstalks had bases full again
with two down when Nightingale mis-
fired at third, but Gordon was sizzled
with three strikes from Charlie
Puckett, and blanked the side.
Dunstan and Evans replaced Gilmour
and Nightingale in the New South
Wales eighth, a shut-out, but a final
blank to W.A. gave the Sydneyites a
grand win.
Scores:
N.S.W.: 0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,x-3.
W.A.: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0-0.
SAFE HITS.
New South Wales: Gordon 2, Yum,
Blanch, Halligan, Payne, Lanfear.
Western Australia: Carr.
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