1947 Western Australian Claxton Shield Series baseball team
A photograph of the 1947 Western Australian Baseball Team who competed in the Australian Baseball Championship Claxton Shield Series. The photo is black and white mounted on tan-coloured cardboard. Printed above the photo are the name of the team and the name, location and year of the competition. Below the photograph are the name of the photographer who produced the photograph and the names of the players and team officials.
The 1947 Claxton Shield was the eighth annual Claxton Shield, an Australian national baseball tournament. It was held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, South Australia from August 2-9, and was won by Victoria for the first time. The other participating teams were defending champions New South Wales, hosts South Australia and the returning Western Australian team.
With the return of Western Australia to the tournament, the four teams played a round-robin schedule, meeting each team once, with two competition points on offer in each game. The points were awarded as follows:
Win – two points
Tie – one point
Loss – no points.
At the end of these preliminary games, the top two teams played each other to determine the champions.
Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Claxton_Shield]
Details
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West Australian Baseball Team
Australian Baseball Championship Series - Adelaide, 1947
Frank Boase Adelaide
Back row: E.C. Halse (Executive), L. Matthews (Executive), W. Shaw, D. Callanan, T. Nisbett (Vice-Captain), G.H. Dunstan (Manager), R. Frankish, A. Cambridge,
A. Hickinbotham, D.J.B. Smith (Executive), H. Balmer (Scorer).
Front row: F. Jones, F. Day, B. Shom, G. Dickinson (Captain), J. Dore, R. Gooch.
1946 was the first time the annual Claxton Shield baseball tournament was held after a six-year break due to World War II. However, 1947 was the first year a Western Australian team returned to the competition.
Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Claxton_Shield]
At the conclusion of the baseball series three Western Australians were named in the Australian team — Tom Nisbet - reserve catcher; George Dickinson - utility (captain); Glen Dunstan - manager.
Tom Nisbet also won the trophy for the best batting average of the carnival.
National Library of Australia [ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55891809]
This item had been in the possession of Baseball WA and was passed to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives.
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