Joseph Pabst

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer and physician (1870–1924)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Joseph Pabst

| image = Some well-known medicos of Auckland City and province (1903) (cropped to Joseph Pabst).jpg

| caption = Pabst in 1903

| country =

| fullname = Joseph Charles Pabst

| birth_date = 1870

| birth_place = Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia

| death_date = 19 May {{death year and age|1924|1870}}

| death_place = Wellington, New Zealand

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role = Batsman, occasional wicket-keeper

| club1 = Auckland

| year1 = {{nowrap|1894/95–1897/98}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 5

| runs1 = 71

| bat avg1 = 8.87

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 20

| deliveries1 = 12

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1= 5/1

| date = 22 September

| year = 2024

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38152.html Cricinfo

}}

Joseph Charles Pabst (1870 – 19 May 1924) was a New Zealand cricketer and doctor. He played five first-class matches for Auckland between 1894 and 1898,{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38152.html |title=Joseph Pabst |accessdate=19 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} and practised as a doctor in Auckland and Wellington.

Life and career

Pabst's father was a German who migrated to Australia in 1860 and settled on the Bendigo goldfields, where he established a business as a butcher. Pabst was one of four children, two boys and two girls.{{cite journal|title=Death of Mr. J. Pabst|journal=Bendigo Advertiser|date=3 March 1902|page= 3|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88614363}} He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1892,{{cite journal|title=The University of Melbourne|journal=The Argus|date=15 November 1892|page= 7|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8481728}} was awarded first-class honours in 1893, when he was acting resident surgeon at the Melbourne Women's Hospital,{{cite journal|title= University Honors|journal= Bendigo Advertiser|date=20 March 1893|page= 2|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88965858}} and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1897.{{cite journal|title= The University |journal= The Age|date=22 March 1897|page= 6|url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/193692635}} He took up a position as house physician at Auckland Hospital in September 1894.{{cite journal|title= Hospital and Charitable Aid Board |journal= New Zealand Herald|date=18 September 1894|page= 6|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18940918.2.58}}

Pabst played cricket as a batsman and occasional wicket-keeper.{{cite book |last=McCarron |first=Tony |year=2010 |title=New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010 |page=103 |location=Cardiff |publisher=The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |isbn=978-1-905138-98-2 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/104/index.html|access-date=22 September 2024}} Playing for the Gordon club in senior Auckland cricket, he was one of the leading batsmen in the competition in 1894–95.{{cite journal|title= Cricket |journal= New Zealand Herald|date=19 January 1895|page= 6|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18950119.2.53}} He made his first-class cricket debut in January 1895, captaining Auckland to victory over the touring Fijians.{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4258.html| title = Auckland v Fiji 1894-95| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =22 September 2024}}

Pabst married Frederica Isabel Peacocke in Auckland in August 1901.{{cite journal|title= Marriages |journal= New Zealand Herald

|date=10 September 1901|page= 1|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19010910.2.2.1}} They moved to Wellington in 1922, where he went into private practice. He injured himself when he slipped on the stairs outside his surgery and died a few weeks later in May 1924, leaving a widow and several daughters.{{cite journal|title= Dr J. C. Pabst |journal= New Zealand Times |date=20 May 1924|page= 3|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19240520.2.17}}

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