1948 Claxton Shield
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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox tournament
| name = 1948 Australian Carnival
1948 Interstate Carnival
| year = 1948
| date = 7 – 14 August
| host = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} Perth, WA
| defending_champs = {{bb-state|Victoria}}
| teams = 4
| champion = {{bb-state|Victoria}}
| num_championships = 2
| runner-up1 = {{bb-state|South Australia}}
| runner-up2 = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| previous = 1947
| next = 1949
}}
The 1948 Claxton Shield (at the time known as either the 1948 Australian Carnival or the 1948 Interstate Carnival) was the ninth annual Claxton Shield, an Australian national baseball tournament. It was held in Perth, Western Australia{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gawQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5978%2C2897992 | title=Sport Details – Baseball | date=9 August 1948 | accessdate=11 February 2010 | newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald | page=4 }} from 7 to 14 August, and was won by Victoria for the second time overall, successfully defending their title from 1947. The other participants were South Australia, New South Wales, and hosts Western Australia.
Format
As had been the case in all previous tournaments where there had been four teams, each team 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, while the remaining two teams faced each other to determine third place.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gqwQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2995%2C2964319 | title=Sports Details – Baseball | date=10 August 1948 | accessdate=11 February 2010 | newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald | page=6 }}
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|Victoria}}
| 5 | 2 | 1 | – |
| align=left | {{bb-state|South Australia}}
| 4 | 2 | – | 1 |
| align=left | {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| 2 | 1 | – | 2 |
| align=left | {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| 1 | – | 1 | 2 |
{{baseballbox
| date = 7 August 1948
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|South Australia}}
| score = 4 – 1
| team2 = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} Perth, WA
}}
{{baseballbox
| date = 7 August 1948
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|Western Australia}}
| score = 1 – 1
| team2 = {{bb-state|Victoria}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} Perth, WA
}}
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{{baseballbox
| date = 9 August 1948
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|New South Wales}}
| score = 1 – 0
| team2 = {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} Perth, WA
}}
{{baseballbox
| date = 9 August 1948
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|Victoria}}
| score = 2 – 1
| team2 = {{bb-state|South Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} Perth, WA
}}
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{{baseballbox
| date = 11 August 1948
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|Victoria}}
| score = 8 – 1
| team2 = {{bb-state|New South Wales}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} Perth, WA
}}
{{baseballbox
| date = 11 August 1948
| team1 = {{bb-state-rt|South Australia}}
| score = 5 – 0
| team2 = {{bb-state|Western Australia}}
| stadium = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} Perth, WA
}}
=Finals=
==Third place final==
==Championship game==
All-Australian team
At the conclusion of the tournament, representatives from the Australian Baseball Council selected an All-Australian team. It was the fourth such Australian team selected at the end of a Claxton Shield tournament.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=h6wQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6459%2C3432887 | title=Details of Sport – Baseball | date=16 August 1948 | newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald | page=5 | accessdate=11 February 2010}}
| class="wikitable" border="1"
! Position ! Player |
| rowspan=2 | Pitcher
| {{flagicon|New South Wales}} R. Lawler |
|---|
| {{flagicon|Western Australia}} C. Puckett |
| rowspan=2 | Catcher
| {{flagicon|South Australia}} P. Brideoake (c) |
| {{flagicon|Victoria}} W. Anderson |
| First Base
| {{flagicon|Victoria}} R. Straw |
| Second Base
| {{flagicon|New South Wales}} C. Emmerick |
| Third Base
| {{flagicon|New South Wales}} M. Deigan |
| Short Stop
| {{flagicon|Victoria}} R. Harvey |
| rowspan=3 | Outfielders
| {{flagicon|Victoria}} R. Black |
| {{flagicon|Victoria}} W. Driver |
| {{flagicon|New South Wales}} J. Rowley |
| Utility
| {{flagicon|Western Australia}} G. Dickinson |
| colspan=2 | |
| Manager
| {{flagicon|South Australia}} R. C. Scott |
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 }}
- {{cite book | last1=Harris | first1=John O. | title=Baseball Queensland 1905-1990 | url=http://www.qld.baseball.com.au/default.asp?Page=52210 | accessdate=19 July 2009 | year=2009 | ref=refHarris | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706101958/http://www.qld.baseball.com.au/default.asp?Page=52210 | archive-date=6 July 2011 | url-status=dead }}
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