the history of western suburbs district cricket club 1921-2002

FIRST GRADECenturiesFive WicketsS C Trimble 106 N Belous 8/41(11 for match),5/38,5/37P W Donaldson 5/46C E Westaway 5/31, 5/84D N Gerrard 5/25-49-1972-3Bob Franklin continued as Chairman of Executive until his resignation on 26-2-73 when he moved toBallina. He had played for the club from 1938-48 representing Queensland Colts in 1938-9. He was onthe Executive from 1957 to 1973. He was QCA Executive Officer from 1958 to 1973. He was made aLife Member in 1966.Ken Montgomery took over from Neil Sartor as club Treasurer. The club coaches were Owen Driscolland Bob Franklin. The Intermediate team was minor premiers. Teams played 15 matches each seasonincluding a number of one day games receiving match points only. The first grade batting was headedby Greg Baker, Sam Trimble and Les Westaway. Peter Donaldson took 41 wickets and took 5 wicketsfor 27 runs for Queensland Colts against NSW Colts. Peter Driscoll played in the QCA Colts, RonCrippen, the NSW opening batsman was Wests import for the Channel O Cup organised by Ron Archer.Nick Belous took 24 wickets, and Col Westaway 23 wickets.Daylight saving ceased so practice had to commence earlier. Preseason practices were held in Eastsnets at Bottomley Park, with Gerry Warr assisting with this coaching. The club played against Ballinaduring the Australia Day long weekend and at Easts.Jack McLaughlin was made a Life Member after more than 20 years on the executive.FIRST GRADECenturiesFive WicketsS C Trimble 107 P W Donaldson 6/25S C Trimble 110 N Belous 5/15D W Gerrard 5/191973-74Glen Cameron continued as President and Chairman of the Executive. Bob Spence took on theadditional role of Treasurer. The club coaches were Neil Donaldson and Owen Driscoll. The C Gradecaptained by Graham Martin were minor premiers but were beaten finalists. Sam Trimble and JohnLoxton captained the A Grade team and were the leading batsmen, averaging 62.80 and 59.83 to finishfirst and second in the QCA averages. The leading bowlers were Tim Caban with 29 wickets at 11.86,Jarvis Finger on transfer from Easts with 47 wickets (highest in QCA) at 17.31, Col Westaway 20wickets at 20.80 and Huw Simmonds 29 wickets at 23.65. Sam Trimble had a good year forQueensland scoring 595 runs at 39.66 to become te second highest Shield run scorer to Don Bradman.thHuw Simmonds was 12 man for Queensland Colts.Graeme Thomas was the guest player for the Channel O Cup but again Valleys won with Benaud andDavidson as guest players. Again winter practices were held at Bottomley Park. The grounds werecompletely inundated by the Australia Day floods and extensive damage to the clubhouse and itscontents occurred. Alan Collier and his sons helped restore the club buildings. Sam Trimble was madea Life Member after playing 15 years with the club.FIRST GRADECenturiesFive WicketsS C Trimble 102X J L Finger 5/69, 5/60, 5/74C E Westaway 5/48T K Caban 5/41, 6/311974-5Owen Driscoll continued as Executive Officer, club coach and Chairman of Selectors. The Stirlingbrothers, Glen and Craig were appointed to the executive. Glen Cameron was made a Life Member.The Schoolboys team captained by Lindsay Holt won the premiership with Wayne Smith the star player,setting a QCA all timers record for runs scored of 531, and an all timers highest score of 130. This gradewas played between 1957-8 and 1974-5. As well he took 40 wickets at 12.73. Darryl King graduatedfrom this team to take more than 200 wickets for the club.The first grade team came eighth. Leading batsmen were again Sam Trimble with 430 runs at 35.83,Bob Blank 196 runs at 24.50 and David Rathie with 236 runs at 33.71 after transferring from Easts.David played 4 matches for Queensland. Peter Donaldson represented Queensland Colts against NSWtaking 4 for 62 and 2 for 60. Peter (36 wickets), Tim Caban and David Brown played for QCA Colts.Graeme Thomas was again the guest player in the Channel O Cup, but Wests were eliminated after atie with Easts because of the batter’s loss of fewer wickets. Leading first grade wicket takers were ColWestaway (30), Tim Caban (16), Jarvis Finger (34) and Charlie Stephan (18).The club against visited Ballina over Easter. A star player in the Graceville Cricket Club Under 11 teamwith 329 runs at 65.8 was Phillip Mooney, a future first grader. The leading wicket taker in the club wasNev Paulsen with 43 wickets in Reserve and B Grades.