I walked to Caringbah and stopped to witness a slow beginning by Sutherland in its first grade match against Western Suburbs. It was not until the left-hand batsman, G. Marston, came to the wicket and hit forty-five, in as many minutes, that the runs’ tally began to move along in earnest. Andrew Hilditch, who batted with him, was to progress further and score 103 not out, in Sutherland’s score of 7-216 declared.
Tiki and I returned later and witnessed Peter Toohey’s dismissal, when his score was on thirty-nine. Former Australian captain and opener, Bobby Simpson, compiled some of his sixty-one runs while we were there. However, it was somewhat cold and the play rather slow, hence we departed at five o’clock. Western Suburbs was to hang on to be 9-199, at stumps, which meant that the match ended in a draw.
At six, after “Countdown”, on Channel Two, I watched “Match Of The Day” which featured a replay of the first match of the season, in rugby league’s premiership. Manly-Warringah defeated South Sydney by twenty-two points to four after the latter had led by two points to nil at half-time. The diminutive, yet highly elusive, John Gibbs made a substantial difference when he was called upon, as a replacement, during the half-time break.
From half past seven, on Channel Nine, we watched an edition of the series, “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. It is set in the Pacific during the Second World War and stars the short Robert “Hawaiian Eye”/”The Wild, Wild West” Conrad as ‘Pappy’ Boyington, who is the leader of a squadron of fighter planes.
The film, “Operation Thunderbolt”, about the Israeli raid to free the passengers being held hostage aboard an airliner at Entebbe, in Uganda, is being screened in town.
“Rhalif”, a galloper from Queensland, who is visiting Sydney, won the Manion Cup, this afternoon, and paid three dollars for each twenty-five cents invested on the win tote of the N.S.W. T.A.B.