The Club is delighted to hear that Geoffrey Lovell has been appointed Chair of Council at Cranbrook from 2024.
Geoff, a Bradman Scholar, was a distinguished player with SUCC and with Oxford University in England and has had strong connections with the governance of Shore School and of St Paul’s College.
James Rodgers
Brian Booth died 19th May 2023 at the Calvary Hospital, Kogarah. He had been in the palliative care unit for six weeks and two days. During that time, he was visited by family, cricket, and hockey friends, which he and Judy greatly appreciated.
Many of you know Brian’s story. Born in Perthville, near Bathurst on 19 October 1933. He was educated at Perthville Infants and Primary School, then Bathurst High. He was a gifted sportsman, with cricket, hockey and tennis filling in his days, outside of his studies. He then moved to Sydney where he attended Sydney Teachers College, graduated as a PE teacher, and taught at schools including Hurlstone Agricultural College and Narwee Boys’ High before becoming a lecturer in the School of Human Movement at Sydney University. He retired early and worked with the Christian Businessmen’s Association and the Bible Society of Australia. He was a regular speaker at sports events, dinners, presentation nights, and Churches.
He commenced playing cricket for the St George DCC, his only club, in the 1952-53 season retiring at the end of the 1976-77 season. Not only was he a player, but a mentor, coach, President of the Club and finally a Patron. He was referred to by many as Mr Booth, out of respect. His cricket career with NSW and Australia was memorable on many counts, but this note is not the place to highlight or discuss them. He was both a vice captain and subsequently captain of the Australian team
He enjoyed his hockey, playing for St George and represented NSW and Australia. In 1956 he was selected as a member of the Australian Olympic Hockey team for the Melbourne Olympics. Each year a highlight for Brian and Judy was attending Sydney hockey dinners. He felt it took him back to his early days in Bathurst where he learnt the rudiments of the game.
Brian was quiet and sometimes reserved but always wise. He had great recall of cricket and hockey moments and was a wonderful raconteur when the occasion called for a story. His Christian faith set him apart and he played all sport with the right spirit and attitude. The essay he wrote for Wisden Australia in the early years of its existence exemplified his outlook on life and cricket and how it should be played. He was a friend to many and always made you feel welcome.
Mr Booth, as I called him up until 1978 certainly encouraged me when I founded the Australian Cricket Society in Sydney in 1973. He regularly attended meetings and 31 years ago became our Patron. He enjoyed the meetings, special functions, and the Annual Dinners. Mixing with members and their guests was something that he looked forward to when anything was organised.
Our thoughts at this time are with the family wife Judy, Jan, Lyn and Ian, Alison, Jenny and Jim.
I am sure we are all better people for having known Brian Booth. I know I am.
Ronald Cardwell,
The Australian Cricket Society – NSW Branch
Dr E.J. ‘Ted’ Yarad
21.05.1937- 10.05.2023
The Sydney anaesthetist and former Club Member Ted Yarad died on 10th May, aged 85.
Ted came to SUCC from North Sydney High and played several years in lower grades, with modest success.
He was more successful in baseball and played first grade for the University Club. He captained the SUBC Intervarsity Team in Adelaide in 1960, his last student year.
After graduation he played as a wicket keeper and batsman for Northbridge in the Northern Suburbs Cricket Association competition for a number of years, probably to the age of fifty years..
Ted maintained a lifelong interest in the game and the Sydney University Club.
He was sighted watching the Club play at North Sydney Oval only last season despite the onset of some health issues which slowed him down. He was a member of the SUCC Foundation
He also attended Test Matches in Sydney and Adelaide over many years.
We send our sympathy to Ted’s wife Helen and the broader Yarad family.
Hartley Anderson
In 1918-19, an undergraduate, simply named 'Verbuiggen', is listed as playing lower grades for SUCC.
In all likelihood, this is ADRIEN HENRI PIERRE EUGENE VERBRUGGHEN (1899-1985), MB 1921, ChM 1922.
No statistics survive from the 1918-19 season and the names, especially those which have been misspelled, have been long forgotten.
His real surname ought to have been known at the time.
He was descended from Pieter Verbrugghen (1615-1686) and Hendrik Frans Verbrugghen (1654-1724), both Flemish sculptors, whose works adorned Flemish churches.
Adrien's father was Henri Adrien Marie Verbrugghen (1873-1934), born in Belgium, the founding Head of the Sydney Conservatorium in 1915 who had won first prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in Brussels in 1889. He was an orchestral violinist and a conductor who toured Scotland and Wales (where Adrien was born in 1899, followed by Marcel (Max) 1904-85 and Phillippe). He was professor at the Glasgow Athenaeum and was chosen over 173 applicants to be the first Director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music from 1915 until 1923. After that, he conducted in USA where he died in 1934 and where his family continued to live. He was a distinguished presence with an elegant waxed moustache and dark eyes.
After graduation, Doctor Adrien specialized in neurological surgery and spent the rest of his life in USA. His connection with SUCC had been long broken.
He might be forgotten but the surname, correctly spelled, has survived.
In the Sydney Conservatorium, a Hall is named after Henri Verbrugghen. In the Canberra suburb of Melba, there is a street named Verbrugghen Street
Adrien's mother was Alice Emma Beatrice (Beaumont), a singer who married Henri in 1898.
James Rodgers
WK Inglis (born 11/2/1888. died 26/1/1960) played two 1st Grade games.
In the history of SUCC, 777 players have represented in 1st Grade.
About 100 of them played just one game.
Another 50 or so played only two 1st Grade games.
Here's a summary of the life of WILLIAM KEITH (known as Keith) INGLIS, now long forgotten, who played two 1st Grade games (1st Grade cap no121 in two separate seasons and scored just two runs. But, after graduation, he was one of the most distinguished doctors in Sydney.
Father: John Thomas Inglis, auctioneer
Mother: Australia nee Renwich
Brothers: Robert Clive, Gordon, Reggie.
Robert Clive graduated BA 1916 and was a Gunner in France 1917-18
Married (1): 1914. Jessie Fulton McPherson died 1933. 3 daughters, 1 son. (2) 1934. Madge.
Educated: Sydney Grammar 1901-1906. Known as 'Inky'. Prefect 1905; Senior Prefect, 1906.
Senior Exams: English A, French, Algebra, Geometry all Bs. Latin and Trigonometry both Cs.
Athletics Team: Premiers 1904–06. Broad Jump. Throwing the cricket ball. Hurdles. Middle Distance.
Sydney University. Medicine 1907-1911. MB 1911, ChM 1912. MD 1917 Pathology. University Medal.
SU Aths, Hockey, Rowing (Blue)
SUCC 1909-10 to 1911-12:
3rd Grade: 3-0-?-128-42.6
2nd Grade: 19-2-100-411-24.2. 2 wkts for 63. 100 v Sydney 1911-12
1st Grade: 2-0-2-2-2.0. 0 wkts for 32. 1st Grade debut 1910-11, scoring 2. Other 1st Grade game Jan 1912 v Gordon, scoring 0.
Played for Balmain after graduation. 1911-12, but not in Grade Cricket.
Enlisted 20/7/1916. Sailed 'Shropshire' May 1917. France. Promoted to Major 1917-19. 3 AGH Abbeville. Then 5 and 6 Australian Field Ambulance. Sailed 'Wondilla' back to Australia 1919.
Obit in 'The Sydneian' July 1960
KEITH INGLIS, who died on 26th January 1960, was one of the outstanding medical men in Australia in his time. After being Senior Prefect and member of the 1st Crew and Athletic team at Grammar in 1906 he went on to Sydney University and graduated in Medicine in 1911. His interest centred on Pathology and, after working in this field during the First World War, he lectured and demonstrated at the University of Sydney and joined the Staff of Sydney Hospital. In 1934 he became the first Director of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology. From 1936 until his retirement in 1952 he was Professor of Pathology at Sydney University. He was an outstanding teacher and did much valuable original investigation. From 1946 he was a Director of Sydney Hospital and died as he was to speak at a Board meeting. He retained his interest in Grammar throughout his life and was a frequent attendant at Old Sydneians' functions.
1906
The first crew will consist of R. C. Stephen (bow), C. M. Royds 12), W. K. Inglis (3), and C. R. Lucas (str)
Taken from The Sydneian 187 May 1906
SUCC
1909-10 2nd Grade: 8-0-50-184-23.0. 2 wkts for 40
1910-11: 1st Grade 1-0-2-2-2.0 1st Grade cap no121
2nd Grade 8-2-45-105-17.5
3rd Grade 3-0-?-128-42.7
1911-12: 1st Grade (Premiers)1-0-0-0- -- 0 wkts 9.
1st Grade v Gordon, Jan 1912 batting at no9. SU 1sts only loss
2nd Grade (Premiers) 3-0-100-122-40.7 0 wkts 23. 100 v Sydney
James Rodgers
This week, we remember the morning of 25 April 1915 when Australians landed on what came to be known as Anzac Cove.
As a Club, we particularly remember each one of these following 26 who played for the Club and who then fell in the service of Australia.
Lest we forget.
James Rodgers
THE GREAT WAR (1914-1918)
Major John Armstrong. SUCC 1902-04. Killed 5 July 1916.
Captain William Aspinall. SUCC 1912-14. 20 July 1917.
Lieutenant Robert Barton. SUCC 1914-15. 9 June 1917.
Lieutenant Alan Blacket. SUCC 1913-15. 16 August 1916.
Captain Norman Broughton. SUCC 1908-15. 10 September 1917.
Major Gother Clarke. SUCC 1894-97. 12 October 1917.
Lieutenant Edgar Clouston. SUCC 1913-14. 26 September 1917.
Sergeant William Gregson. SUCC 1895-1901. 14 November 1916.
Corporal Clifford ('Bob') Holliday. SUCC 1914-16. 20 July 1916.
Captain Roger Hughes. SUCC 1908-13. 11 December 1916.
Gunner Eric Leggo. SUCC 1916-17. 20 October 1918.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry MacLaurin. SUCC 1896-99. 27 April 1915.
Private Alan Mitchell. SUCC 1911-12. 5 May 1915.
Lieutenant Alexander Muir. SUCC 1914-15. 13 October 1917.
Lance-Corporal Clarence Page. SUCC 1911-13. 22 July 1916.
Lieutenant Elliot Slade. SUCC 1911-12. 30 March 1918.
Captain 'Johnnie' Verge. SUCC 1899-1904. 8 September 1915.
Captain John Stuart Walker. SUCC 1904-07. 21 July 1918.
WORLD WAR 2
Captain Stephen Foley. SUCC 1934-37. 14 May 1943.
Lance-Sergeant Jack Garvin. SUCC 1922-24. 4 June 1945.
Major Llondha Holland. SUCC 1920-21. 14 May 1943.
Flying Officer Jack Ledgerwood. SUCC 1939-41. 21 September 1943.
Brigadier Geoffrey Street. SUCC 1912-14. 13 August 1940.
Captain Laurence Tansey. SUCC 1936-37. 17 August 1943.
Pilot Officer John Traill. SUCC 1941-42.
Major Ian Vickery. SUCC 1931-39. 27 November 1942.