What sport was played by Gwilym Kessey and Sid Barnes between 1945 and 1948?
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Gwilym Kessey Gwilym Taf Kessey (13 January 1919 – 25 June 1986) was an Australian cricketer who played thirteen first-class matches between 1945 and 1950 for Western Australian sides as a wicket-keeper. He made his debut for Western Australia in 1945 against the Australian Services cricket team, making 22* in his only innings. Kessey played in Western Australia's inaugural Sheffield Shield match in November 1947 against South Australia, making 12 runs batting at #8. He played one match for a Western Australia Combined XI featuring Test players Ian Johnson, Ken Meuleman, Bruce Dooland and Sid Barnes against the MCC in 1946, stumping Test cricketers Denis Compton and Bill Edrich. Overall, he played 13 first-class matches, scoring 320 runs with a highest score of 60, and making 26 dismissals. His identical twin daughters, Karen and Katherine Kessey, were both actresses.
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Sid Barnes Sidney George Barnes (5 June 1916 – 16 December 1973) was an Australian cricketer and cricket writer, who played 13 Test matches between 1938 and 1948. Able to open the innings or bat down the order, Barnes was regarded as one of Australia's finest batsmen in the period immediately following the Second World War. He helped create an enduring record when scoring 234 in the second Test against England at Sydney in December 1946; exactly the same score as his captain, Don Bradman, in the process setting a world-record 405 run fifth wicket partnership. Barnes averaged 63.05 over 19 innings in a career that, like those of most of his contemporaries, was interrupted by the Second World War.
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Kevin Lewis (footballer, born 1940) Kevin Lewis (born 19 September 1940 in Ellesmere Port) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Sheffield United, Liverpool and Huddersfield Town.
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1946–47 British Home Championship The 1946-47 British Home Championship was a football tournament played between the British Home Nations during the 1946–47 seasons, the first professional football seasons in Britain since the end of the Second World War. As seven seasons had passed without regular, organised, professional football, many of the players in the tournament were new to the international stage although a few old hands remained to steer the course of the competition. England were especially well endowed in this regard, with such greats as Stanley Matthews and Tommy Lawton returning to the fray.
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1947–48 Football League The 1947–1948 season was the 49th completed season of The Football League.
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1948–49 Southern Football League The 1948–49 season was the 46th in the history of the Southern League. Gillingham won the championship for the second time in three seasons. Four Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League at the end of the season, but none was successful.
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Jack Grundy (rugby league) John "Jack" James Grundy (27 August 1926 — 1978 (aged 51–52) ) born in Prescot district, was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, and Lancashire, and at club level for United Glass Blowers ARLFC (now Eccleston Lions of the North West Men's League), New Church Tavern ARLFC, St. Helens, Barrow, and Roose ARLFC, as a second-row , i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums, he served in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Liverpool (C11), he died in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
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Sid Wallace Sid Wallace (born 30 May 1957 in Wigan, England) was an English footballer who most famously played for Waterford United.
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Mel Sutton Melvyn Charles "Mel" Sutton (born 13 February 1946) is a former English professional footballer.
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John McCue McCue was born in Stoke-on-Trent and was spotted playing for Longton schools and joined Stoke's ground-staff as an amateur in 1937. He signed professional forms in 1940 and due to his wartime occupation as a physical training instructor he remained local and made the left back spot his own from 1942–43 onwards, missing only one game from February 1943 to May 1945. The left-footed McCue's style was uncompromising, described as a 'grand kicker of the ball' and should an opposing winger get the better of him he would not averse the odd kick or two to rectify the situation. This earned him the nickname 'chopper' amongst his Stoke teammates. His impetuous tackling did lead to mistakes and a one such occasion McCue slipped as the attempted to tackle Sheffield United's Walter Rickett on the final day of the 1946–47 season, Stoke lost 2–1 and missed out on their first league title.
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Chippy Simmons Charles "Chippy" Simmons (9 September 1878 – 12 December 1937) was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward.
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Ken Suttle Kenneth George 'Ken' Suttle (born 25 August 1928 at Brook Green, Hammersmith, London; died 25 March 2005 while on holiday in Mauritius) was an English cricketer. He was primarily a left-handed batsman but was also a useful slow left-arm bowler. His first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1949 to 1971. He played in 612 first-class matches. This included an unbroken sequence of 423 consecutive County Championship matches between 1954 and 1969, which is still the record number.
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Athol Smith Athol Smith played seven seasons for the Balmain Tigers between 1939 and 1945. He was a dual premiership winner with the Tigers, winning both the 1939 and the 1944 grand finals with them. He later coached the club between 1948-1950. In 1953, whilst playing for Toowoomba's Souths club, Smith was selected to play for Queensland against the touring United States team.
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MCC tour of Australia in 1946–47 The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of Australia in 1946-47 under the captaincy of Wally Hammond was its ninth since it took official control of overseas tours in 1903-1904 and the first since the Second World War. The touring team played as England in the 1946–47 Ashes series against Australia, but as the MCC in all other games. In all there were 25 matches; 5 Test matches (which they lost 3-0), 13 other First Class matches (which they won 1-0) and 7 minor matches (which they won 3-0). Australia had been suffering a drought since 1937, but this ended as it rained in every match the MCC played on tour, including tropical thunderstorms twice in Brisbane and again in Sydney. However, this had an adverse effect on the pitches and denied the touring team adequate practice and lead to many draws.
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1948 in sports 1948 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
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Ken Pound John Henry Kenneth "Ken" Pound (born 24 August 1944) is an English former professional association football player. He played for Portsmouth, Swansea City, Bournemouth and Gillingham between 1962 and 1971.
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Samuel Day (sportsman) Samuel Hulme Day (29 December 1878 – 21 February 1950), known as Sammy Day, was an amateur sportsman who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and association football for Corinthian F.C.. He made three international appearances for the England football team as an inside forward.
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George Barnes (sport shooter) George Barnes (1849 – 25 January 1934) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
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1945–46 Brentford F.C. season During the 1945–46 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League South, due to the cessation of competitive league football for one further season following the end of the Second World War in Europe in May 1945. A return to competitive cup football came in the form of the first FA Cup staged since before the war, with the Bees advancing to the sixth round, equalling the club record.
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Wallace Watts Wallace Howard Watts (25 March 1870 – 29 April 1950) was an English-born international rugby union player who played club rugby for Newport and international rugby for Wales. Watts was part of the 1893 Wales team which won the country's first Triple Crown. From 1892 Watts played for county team Gloustershire.
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Len Smith (rugby) Len Smith (1918–2000) was an Australian representative rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 1940s. He captained the Kangaroos in two Tests 1948 and was controversially omitted from the 1948-49 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.
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Albert Titley Albert Titley (18 November 1918 – 17 September 1986) was an English footballer who played for West Bromwich Albion, Port Vale, and Macclesfield Town in the 1930s.