Time Travellers in Essendon, Flemington and the Keilor Plains

Sporting Clubs

Ascot Vale Presbyterian Church Cricket Club, circa 1909

Back row, L-R:   1,  2,  3,  4,  5  F  Ely,   6 Anthony Glover Park,   7

Middle row, L-R:  1  E Kennedy,  2,  3  Blackie,  4,  5  William Kennedy Park

Front row, L-R:  1  N McKinnon,  2  D Ely,   3,    Photographer:  Sutcliffe and Akers, Melbourne

See the back of photos for some names: http://mvcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/search/asset/801/1

Courtesy of the Moonee Valley Library Service Heritage Collection, HER-00070A.jpg

There is a date on the back of this photo of 1916, but comparing the age of William Kennedy Park in this photo, and in the photo of the Essendon Baseball Club, he is clearly younger in this photo than in the other.  The baseball photo can be no later than 1914 because A T Swift, also pictured, embarked with the AIF in 1914 and did not return.  Sutcliffe and Akers is first mentioned in Trove in 1909, so this photo may date to about that time.

Ascot Vale Presbyterian Church Cricket Club, circa 1914

This group of sportsmen dressed for cricket includes brothers William Kennedy Park and Walter Glover Park, centre front and centre right, respectively, circa 1914.  The Park brothers played for the Ascot Vale Presbyterian Cricket Club.  Courtesy of the Moonee Valley Library Service Heritage Collection, HER-00063.

The last time W K Park was mentioned in the Essendon Gazette in the cricket results was on 1915 when he was declared to be entitled to a trophy for the best batting average in the A Section.  W G Park was last mentioned at a Smoke Night in 1914 when he contributed a song to the entertainment.  Keep in mind, however, that the last issue of the Essendon Gazette in Trove dates to 1919.

The Essendon Churches Cricket Association decided in 1915 to suspend matches for the following year owing to the war.