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-38-Queensland in one domestic one day game and in being twelfth man in the losing 1989-90 SheffieldShield final.Brett played a major role in the premiership winning final of 1987-8, scoring fifties in both innings, thesecond whilst in great pain from a fractured knuckle. Fortunately, the pain disappeared with the victoryand the subsequent celebrations well into the night. Brett was a very hard hitting left hand batsmanwhose best shot was a lofted drive. He was a handy medium pace bowler who could move the ball bothways at surprising speed at times. Brett was not one to take a backward step during on field verbalconfrontations and was always prepared to support a teammate.Another bowling allrounder is chosen as number seven, Mark Thompson. Mark came to Wests in1987-8 having been NSW Under 19 Captain and quickly impressed, scoring 1380 runs at 20.29 and 127wickets at 27.52 between 1987-8 and 1995-6. Mark was an orthodox batsman whose strength lay indriving and a fast medium bowler who moved the ball both ways. He retired prematurely to join thebusiness of his accountant friend, Jon Dooley, and to concentrate on family. Mark had received goodencouragement from his NSW forebear, Sam Trimble.Jon Dooley is the spinner in the team, taking 156 wickets at 32.56 between 1987 and 1999. He cameto Wests from Norths with Dean Tuckwell. John had two seasons at Colts and in 1993-4 became clubcaptain, leading the team into the semi finals. He took 46 wickets at 16.58, to take the most wickets infirst grade that year (42 in fixture games). Whilst not being a big spinner of the ball, John deceivedbatsmen with subtle changes of flight. He was a very dogged batsman often leading by example andgoing in as night watchman where he took many blows to the body.John was an extremely inspiring and charismatic leader drawing the best out of his players and isnominated as captain of this team. John also played a significant role off the field in roles as clubtreasurer and fund raiser. A succession of dinners he and others organised helped club financesconsiderably and led to major improvements in club facilities.The WK in the team is Ray Phillips, who moved from NSW to Queensland and joined WSDCC in 1979-80 for the first of seven seasons. During this period, Ray played 78 matches for Queensland in whichhe scored 2618 runs at 28.96, caught 250 catches and effected 13 stumpings. Ray was a talkative,efficient WK and a busy batsman. The highlight of his career was the Ashes Tour of 1985, and at a clublevel the 1980-1 grand final.Peter Donaldson’s partner in arms, John Bourke is the next player chosen. John was extremelyaccurate, could bowl all day and was the perfect foil to the faster Peter. Wests were very fortunate whenJohn moved across from Valleys to give seven seasons of sterling service in which he took 255 wicketsat 20.64.Another left armer Nick Belous also makes the team as twelfth man. Off only a five pace run up Nickdeveloped surprising speed. He was very accurate and just did enough with the ball to take 225 wicketsat 20.53 in his nine first grade seasons. Due to injury he dropped down to captain third grade in his latterseasons where he played mainly as a batsman, but on the rare occasions he bowled, he surprised thirdgrade batsman with his pace and movement.Number eleven in any team he played went to Carl Grey Rackemann, a Queensland sporting icon. Itwas Carl who in 1984-5 wept tears of despair when playing in a losing Sheffield Shield final in Sydneybut it was also Carl who caught the winning catch at the Gabba in 1994-5 and on this occasion they weretears of joy. He has the third highest number of wickets in interstate cricket with 383 at 26.32 in his 102matches for Queensland and in his 12 matches took 39 wickets at 29.15 for Australia. But for injury andthe decision to tour on the rebel South African Tour (to financially support the family property) at a timewhen he was at his cricketing peak, Carl would have taken many more wickets for Australia. Howeverhis heart lay with Queensland and he was suitably rewarded with a Contiki tour of the West Indies in1995. A season with Surrey in 1995 probably shortened his career for Queensland in that he wasdropped the following season after three poor games. Carl played a single game for WSDCC taking 1for 45 from 10 overs in 1996-7 but did not play for the club again despite some talk about recruiting himfor the three peat fifth grade team of 1997-8. Carl is the only player in the history of cricket to have notannounced his retirement, and still had not by 2001-2. In the meantime he has been a television andradio commentator, the Zimbabwe coach, a Queensland Cricket Ambassador, a businessman withBeaurepaires and a farmer. Only occasionally were the wickets in grade cricket (from Wynnum Manlyvia Sandgate Redcliffe) to Carl’s liking, but this usually coincided with matches against South Brisbane.On one memorable occasion he took 10 wickets in a match at Graceville winning the match for Westsoutright. Of his 16 years in grade cricket Carl played 10 of them with Wests and had good support fromhis sister Helen and brother in law, Malcolm Gold, who played for Wests from 1988-9 to 2000-1.The highlight of Carl’s batting career was the scoring of the slowest duck in test history in the SydneyAshes Test match of 1990-1 series which turned out to be his last test match. This led to Australia savingthe match. The Queensland highlight was the score of 33 against Tasmania in Hobart. The low light ofCarl’s grade career was his declaring the Wests innings closed at 6 for 26, against Easts in 1992-3, morethan 100 runs behind the opposition, and allowing them to reinsert. However two other senior playersin the team on the day did not disagree with the decision.If a fieldsman were to be selected during this era as twelfth man it would be Tony Taylor who was amagnificent ground fielder. Tony was an excellent batsman as well who played first grade for the clubin 1981-2 and in the next six seasons apart from a stint with a colts team which included Ian Healy,scored 1523 runs at 27.19 with a heartbreaking highest score of 97 not out. Whilst practising oneevening at Graceville Tony suffered a fractured skull in a freak accident when a ball bounced upawkwardly on its return to his bowling, hitting him in the forehead. He later required surgery.In the late 1990's Tony returned to the club after many years away teaching in the country, to play anumber of seasons of third grade. At this time he graduated in law to practice at the bar. Thus hefollowed in the footsteps of three other Wests old boys, Ian Callinan, Tom Shepherdson and Garry
-39-Crooke.The obvious thirteenth man in the team is Darren Kingdon who transferred from Norths to join his goodmate Mark Thompson. Darren who was a stylish batsman played seven matches for Queensland witha top score of 69.OTHER FIRST GRADE PLAYERSKeith Bimrose was a solid upper order batsman who played predominantly in first and second grade inthe 1960's and 1970's. Peter Driscoll was the son of Owen who played as an AR in the upper grades.He captained the Wests U19 team in the early 1970's. Des Hughson finished a distinguished career in1968-9 which included state representation in 14 matches. He returned in later years with Gerry Warrto coach the U18 team. Stephen Lawler was a skilful leg spinner who played a number of seasons withWests before moving to Valleys where he took over 300 wickets in the lower grades.Ken Montgomery played with the club in the 1960's and 1970's and his youngest brother, Miles in the,late 1970's and 1980's, started in the juniors and both worked their way up to first grade as batsmen. Kenbecame a pharmacist and Miles the superintendent of Kingaroy Golf Club. Greg Martin was a stylishbatsman for Wests and Colts. Brendan O’Sullivan captained Queensland Colts and playedpredominantly first grade cricket. He was an opening batsman whose strengths were his timing andhooking. He later became a successful insurance salesman. John Townsend was a tall lively fastbowler. Les Westaway played many seasons as a dogged opening batsman in first grade and in lateryears second grade. Rob Blank was a busy middle order batsman who came through the juniors. GarryCrooke was first grade WK for several years in the 1960's and 1970's. Peter Jesser was a top orderbatsman after commencing in 1969-70. Roger Prentice was predominantly a lower grade middle orderbatsman who also bowled off spinners. He captained third grade in 1974-6, fifth grade in 1985-7 andfourth grade in 1987-9. Later he became a club administrator. Huw Summons was a RAFB who camethrough the juniors to play for Queensland Colts. He moved to North Queensland. Jim Boman was anupper order batsman who also played two seasons for Colts. He moved to the Gold Coast and workedin the finance industry. Lindsay Ferguson played many years as first grade WK in the 1970's. His twosons also played with the club in the 1990's. Kev Maher played a number of seasons as a hard hittingbatsman before playing for Colts. He later played for Norths and then returned to North Queenslandwhere he was prominent in coaching juniors and administration. His nephew is Jimmy Maher whoplayed more than 100 games for Queensland including four winning Sheffield Shield/Pura finals as wellas six one day games for Australia in 1997-8 and 2001-2. Ian Morley was a bowling AR. He hit the ballvery hard. After coming from the country Des Gerrard was a bowling AR sometimes used as a pinchhitter. Greg Baker was a RHOB. Robin Briggs who played mainly lower grades was an attackingmiddle order bat. Malcolm Gillespie was a right arm bowling AR. He also played AFL for Queenslandas well as many seasons for WBAFC. Alan Johnston was a RHB.Howard Manning was a RHMOB and off spinner who later became a first grade century scorer after hetransferred to Souths. Brett Currey was a RHOB who scored 1545 first grade runs at 18.39 and bowledLA spinners. He commuted from the Gold Coast and continued after finishing with Wests in 1981 playingfirst grade on the Gold Coast. Jarvis Finger was a right arm medium pace inswing bowler who aftermany years with Easts, transferred. Peter McWhinney was a RAFB who later won more than $1M onthe Australasian and Japanese PGA Tours. In the late 1990's he had an accident which was followedby a serious blot clot on the lung. Charlie Stephan was a LH opening FB who played in a QueenslandSecondary School Boys Team against Jeff Thomson. His son played for the club in the early 2000's.Jim Laman was a RAFB. Bruce Rathie was a RHMOB who became a merchant banker in Sydney. Hewas the youngest brother of David and Richard. David Brown was a RHB and RALS. He scored 1686first grade runs at 21.89 between 1974 and 1980. Russell Tulley was RAFB who had played first gradecricket and AFL football in Melbourne. He became co-owner of the successful snow and skateboardshops, Snowbiz and Skatebiz. Toot Byron was a RALS. He played most of his first grade cricket forUniversity. His son Chips played junior lower grade cricket for Wests being a prolific taker with his legspinners. Toot had two stints as club coach in 1978-80 and 1988-91. He then became Director ofCoaching at Queensland Cricket, and together with Jim Hunter took part in the development of many ofthe players who played in the five successful Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup finals. On retirement in 2000,he became lifestyle consultant for players for Queensland Cricket and did consultant work for the WestIndies Board of Control. Ron Daniels was a RHUOB. David Falkenmire was a WK. After transfer fromSydney where he played for the NSW colts he took up journalist positions including sporting editor ofBrisbane Murdoch Press papers. In 2002 he was bowls columnist. John Fanning was an elegant RHBwho first played for the club in 1976-7. He held the first grade fourth wicket record of 234 with Jim Hunterat University in 1980-1, in the course of which he scored a century. He was involved in coaching atWests Juniors. He passed away at age 42 in 2002. Andrew Goddard was a RAFB who later captainedsecond grade. Andrew donated a set of covers to Wests. Bill Jackson was a RAFB with a vigorous runup who played mainly second grade. He became a software programmer in Sydney. His sister andbrother in law became very prominent in medical politics in the early 2000's. Warwick London was aRHOB who after moving to North Queensland represented Queensland Country. He became asuccessful businessman. Bob Adermann was an aggressive fast bowler of slight build who later becameChairman of Selectors and Chairman of Executive in the very successful 1985-7 period. Neil Beavantransferred from Wynnum Manly on the departure of Sam Trimble. He scored 2044 first grade runs at23.76 in 77 matches between 1976 and 1983, before captaining teams in the lower grades. His son,Brett came up through the grades in the late 1990's, scoring two centuries in second grade in the runnerup 2001-2 team and playing in the first grade semi and grand final. David Lansbury was RAFB. Jim
Page 1 and 2: THE HISTORY OFWESTERN SUBURBS DISTR
Page 3 and 4: GENERAL FOREWORDWestern District Cr
Page 5 and 6: -5-THE BIRTH OF “WESTS”At a spe
Page 7 and 8: -7-PRESIDENTSH C Morrow (1921-1923)
Page 9 and 10: -9-INTERSTATE (BEFORE SHIELD CRICKE
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Page 20 and 21: -20-FIRST CLASS STATISTICS - WESTER
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