Ringwood Cricket Club a Young Club, Making
Ringwood Cricket Club A young club, making History 1901 - 1910 Where shoppers now scurry through the busy Eastland Shopping Complex was once the site of many thrilling cricket struggles. The Ringwood Recreation Reserve. This is how the Box Hill Reporter saw it in 1909: "The situation of the Reserve at the foot of Pine Mountain (Loughnans Hill) gives it natural beauty, and the perfumes of the gums, Wattle and heath, give to it the fragrance of the Australian bush". Although Ringwood Cricket Club was founded in 1901, very little of their activities is known for this period and, in fact, our story really begins in 1905 when as the 'Imperials', their. first title, they began playing against other clubs, both locally and near the city of Melbourne. They attended a meeting of the "Box Hill Reporter" Competition in 1903, but did not enter a team therein. Obviously the Clubs of that time were no different to today, as the sports Editor of the Reporter noted on October 2, 1903: "Unless match reports are sent in early, they stand Buckley' s chance of being published." For a match in January, 1906, the team was to be selected from: PRATT, GODFREY, KNOX, SMITH, GRANT, STRAIN, McPHEE, McCORMACK, OLSEN, BARELLI, NORMAN, BARNETT, LINDSAY, HODGETTS, FITZPATRICK DYER, PEARSON, THOMAS. Some well known names already in evidence! Halfway through the season, H. Godfrey and C. Lindsay were selected in a representative, team to play against Melbourne. Match reports for the season show that Godfrey and Knox were excellent batsmen while Smith in one game had the great figures of 10/56.
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