1947 Claxton Shield
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{{Infobox tournament
| name = Australian Interstate Baseball Carnival
| year = 1947
| date = 2 – 9 August
| host = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide, SA
| defending_champs = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| teams = 4
| champion = {{bb-state|Victoria}}
| num_championships = 1
| runner-up1 = {{bb-state|South Australia}}
| runner-up2 = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| previous = 1946
| next = 1948
}}
The 1947 Claxton Shield was the eighth annual Claxton Shield, an Australian national baseball tournament. It was held at the Adelaide Oval{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3woRAAAAIBAJ&pg=7438%2C865842 | title=N.S.W. Leads Baseball | date=5 August 1947 | newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald | location=Sydney, NSW| page=9 | accessdate=6 January 2010}} in Adelaide from 2 to 9 August 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.
Format
With the return of Western Australia to the tournament, the four teams played a round-robin schedule, meeting each other team once, with two competition points were 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.
Results
=Preliminaries=
| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:center"
! width=150 | Team ! width=50 | Points ! width=50 | Wins ! width=50 | Ties ! width=50 | Losses | |||
| align=left | {{bb-state|South Australia}}
| 8 | 4 | - | - |
| align=left | {{bb-state|Victoria}}
| 6 | 3 | - | 1 |
| align=left | {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| 2 | 1 | - | 3 |
| align=left | {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| 0 | - | - | 4 |
{{baseballbox
| date = 2 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|Victoria}}
| score = 4 – 3
| team2 = {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
{{baseballbox
| date = 2 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|South Australia}}
| score = 4 – 3
| team2 = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
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{{baseballbox
| date = 4 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|New South Wales}}
| score = 4 – 2
| team2 = {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
{{baseballbox
| date = 4 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|South Australia}}
| score = 4 – 0
| team2 = {{bb-state|Victoria}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
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{{baseballbox
| date = 6 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|South Australia}}
| score = 4 – 0
| team2 = {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
{{baseballbox
| date = 6 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|Victoria}}
| score = 6 – 1
| team2 = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
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{{baseballbox
| date = 8 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|Victoria}}
| score = 4 – 1
| team2 = {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
{{baseballbox
| date = 8 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|South Australia}}
| score = 3 – 0
| team2 = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
=Final=
{{baseballbox
| date = 9 August 1947
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|Victoria}}
| score = 4 – 0
| team2 = {{bb-state|South Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|South Australia}} Adelaide Oval
}}
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{{winners|bb-state|1947 Claxton Shield Champions|Victoria|1st}}
All-Australian team
At the conclusion of the tournament, representatives from the Australian Baseball Council selected an All-Australian team. It was the third such Australian team selected at the end of a Claxton Shield tournament. South Australian players made up the largest proportion in the squad, despite not being the champion team of the year, while champions Victoria had only two players selected: the smallest from any team, along with Western Australia.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xghFAAAAIBAJ&dq=baseball&pg=3532%2C4078113 | title=State Honours to Victoria | date=12 August 1947 | newspaper=The Age | location=Melbourne, VIC | page=14 | accessdate=6 January 2010}}
| class="wikitable" border="1"
! colspan=2 | Position ! Player |
| colspan=2 | Pitcher
| {{flagicon|South Australia}} D. Vaughan |
|---|
| colspan=2 | Catcher
| {{flagicon|South Australia}} P. Brideoake |
| colspan=2 | First Base
| {{flagicon|Victoria}} R. Straw |
| colspan=2 | Second Base
| {{flagicon|New South Wales}} T. Geegan |
| colspan=2 | Third Base
| {{flagicon|New South Wales}} M. Deigan |
| colspan=2 | Short Stop
| {{flagicon|South Australia}} {{Proper name|R. Brealy}} |
| colspan=2 | Left Field
| {{flagicon|Victoria}} R. Black |
| colspan=2 | Centre Field
| {{flagicon|South Australia}} W. Radbone |
| colspan=2 | Right Field
| {{flagicon|New South Wales}} J. Rowley |
| rowspan=2 | Reserve Battery ! Pitcher | {{flagicon|South Australia}} B. Dooland |
| Catcher
| {{flagicon|Western Australia}} T. Nisbet |
| colspan=2 | Utility
| {{flagicon|Western Australia}} C. Dickinson (c) |
References
Bibliography
- {{cite book | last1=Clark | first1=Joe | title=A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIXGQra02mAC&pg=PP1 | accessdate=1 January 2010 | year=2003 | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | location=Lincoln, NE, United States | isbn=0-8032-6440-2 | ref=refClark }}
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