The first success of the CBC Old Boys Cricket club was as winners of the J.Treloar Shield in the 1933-34 season. East Fremantle Footballers were the Premiers but teams finishing in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th places on the Premiership list played for the J. Treloar Shield. CBC were the inaugural winners of this shield with a further success in this shield in the 1937-38 season.
CBC made their first appearance in the finals in the 1938-39 season. Unfortunately they were beaten in the semi-final by South Fremantle.
Other successes by the Club were again in the Treloar Shield in 1939-40 and in 1947-48.
In the 1954-55 season the F & DMCA expanded to two grades. CBC who had amalgamated with Ports were included in the B-grade and missed the finals in the first year but succeeded in winning the Club's first premiership under the captaincy of Des Martienson in the 1955-56 season
Between the 1955-56 season and the 1960-61 season CBC featured in the final rounds and during this time the great rivalry between CBC and South Fremantle developed.
CBC were runners up to South in the 1959-1960 and again in 1960-61 but finally in the 1961-62 season under the leadership of Doug Stewart the Club won its first A-grade premiership.
It should be noted that at this time members of the CBC Cricket Club began to have a solid impact on the administration of the F & DMCA. Names such as Don Podmore, Tom Hegarty, Alan Howell, Alan Johnstone along with other notable club members began to appear in the Association records and these members continued to make a solid contribution to the running of the association for many years.
The 1962-63 season saw the epic tie in the Grand Final between CBC and South Fremantle in a game that continued into the football season and thus could not be completed.
The 1963-64 season was the third success in as many years when CBC defeated Spartan Cricket in the premiership.
Now came a development stage in the Club's history. With the advent of many young players from the CBC Football Club the F & DMCA was asked, through the agency of Roy Becker and Harry Newman, to allow the Club to include two teams - one in A-grade and one in B-grade. The Association finally agreed, with the restriction of three moves between grades for the whole season. Thus in the 1964-65 season CBC included a second team in the B-grade. This move was followed in the 1965-66 season by the Spartan, East Fremantle and Hilton Park Clubs and so the expansion of the Association towards its current formation was under way at the instigation of CBC.
The Club now had a lean spell in the A-grade without success for 10 years until the legendary defeat of Hilton in the 1973-74 season grand final under the leadership of Tom Hegarty.
However in the interim, the B-grade under the captaincy of Kevin Swan had won the first of many premierships in the 1969-70 season and again in the 1972-73 season under Des Newman.
With the expansion of the Club to two teams the administration also needed growth. Prior to 1970 the committee met rather irregularly and many of the administrative decisions were made by discussion after the game and implemented by Roy Becker and Harry Newman who held the position of secretary/treasurer between 1960 and 1970.
The administration of the Club underwent great changes in the 1970's.
From 1970 to 1974 Frank (Dusty) Culley took on the presidency of the Club and the committee began to meet on a monthly basis. Dusty gathered a strong committee led by Kevin Swan as secretary and Don Haines as treasurer and began to dictate terms rather strongly.
Ron Culley was elected president in 1974 and his 10 years of presidency saw the development of the Club's administration to its full potential. With regular meetings and formalised committees the Club led the way in both administration and on the cricket field. The administration has continued under the leadership of Tony Basile, Domenic Bianchi, Harry Burgess and Peter Christie and the solid committee function will ensure continued excellence in administration.
During this period of administrative growth, the playing strength of the Club continued to develop enabling the Club to include teams in each new grade up to sixth grade. CBC has the proud record of being the first to include the extra team each time an extra grade was added.
The premiership page shows the full details of premierships won by all senior grades and colts. The success of the Club in winning many premierships across the grades is unprecedented. It has won 59 senior premierships, 5 colts premierships and 7 one-day premierships. It has only failed to win a premiership on 4 occasions in the past 30 seasons.
Another 'first' for the CBC Club was the movement through the agency of CBC Football Club into the "White House". Becoming the first Club in the Association to operate its own licensed club was of great benefit to the members. The premises were a great boost to the social life of the players and helped immensely to foster the club spirit and character which have become synonymous with all CBC teams. In time the White House was taken back by the Fremantle City Council and the Club managed to move into new premises which had been built on Fremantle Park.
The Club continued enormous success during the 1980's under astute leadership of Ken Judge, whose contribution to the cricket standard and administration of the Club has been of inestimable value.
Ken brought a professionalism to the CBC Cricket Club which has continued from the smallest details of dress to larger details of winning record numbers of premierships across the grades.
The Club entered a new era when Ken Judge and his able adviser and assistant in John Pietroniro stepped down from the leading roles and allowed others to take the positions of captain and coach. With such a strong foundation to work from the club continued to have success on the field.
The 1992/93 season, under the guidance of Kim Hagdorn and Domenic Bianchi, saw the Club come within a whisker of creating an Association record that could only be equalled but never beaten. That is, to win every trophy the Association has on offer. The only Grand Final we lost was unfortunately the 1st grade. We won the Club Championship, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade and colts premierships.
1993/94 was also another outstanding year. It saw the introduction of a One Day Premiership Trophy for each grade. The club was represented in all 5 One Day Grand Finals and went on to win the first three grades. It again won the Club Championship and the first four grades played in the Grand Final. Winning back the 1st grade Premiership was the highlight after the previous year's loss and also the 4th grade went on to win "back to back" premierships. The disappointment however, was the loss in Grand Final by the 2nd and 3rd grades after each finishing minor premiers and the "tied" semi-final by the 5th grade. This is the first tie that anybody could ever remember in a final. Remarkably the 5th grade achieved the same result the following year.
1996/97 saw the Club experience another major change with the amalgamation of the Fremantle and Districts Mercantile Cricket Association with the South Suburban Cricket Association to form the South Metropolitan Cricket Association. The Association did not have to wait long before it was to feel the impact of the C.B.C. Cricket Club. In its first year the Club won 3 senior premierships and the 3 one day premierships. The Club has also managed to win at least one premiership in each season in the SMCA, and won the first grade senior premiership and one day premiership in 1998/99 under the leadership of Gary Buckenara.
This year also saw David Nolan take over the presidency for his second stint. In 1999/2000, the 2nd and the 5th grade won the premiership. The 5th grade went on to win three more premierships in a row from 2001/02 up until 2003/04. In 2003/04, under the guidance of coach and 1st grade captain, Brad Bootsma, the first grade won the one day premiership. They were joined by the 4th grade who completed the double in 2003/04 by winning both the one day and two day premierships.
Moving on to the 2004/2005 season, CBC moved from Fremantle to its new home at Karoonda Oval in Booragoon. This was an exciting move as most of our members live in the City of Melville, as well as strengthening our bond with the Bateman Junior Cricket Club. The 2004/2005 season was a mixed one for the club with the positives being CBC and Bateman Juniors becoming closer, more social activities, a second grade grand final and a 6th grade premiership.
The 2006/2007 season saw our first grade team find some form again. After losing the semi final in the previous year, the first grade finished on top of the ladder at the end of the 2006/2007 season, making their way through to a home Grand Final against Leeming, who eventually won by 2 wickets. In 2007/2008, the ties between Bateman JCC and CBC were strengthened further, with Andrew Galbraith becoming the first former Bateman JCC player to become the seasonal club captain. 2007/2008 also saw David Nolan give up the Presidency after 13 years (10 in a row) in the job with Terry Culley taking over for the 2008/2009 season.
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