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Darley News – THE BULLETIN OF THE OLD JOSEPHIANS’ ASSOCIATION OF NSW Joes triumphant in cricket quadrangular After a lapse of four years, The Saints Cricket Quadrangular was staged in NSW. St. Joseph’s, St. Benedict’s, St. Peter’s and St. Anthony’s Colleges battled it out to become the champions on February 11 at Doonside in Western Sydney. The competition was hosted by the Benedictines but a joint organising committee focussed on setting up a T10 format. The Joes managed to beat the Bens and Antonians convincingly but lost to the Peterites in the first round. The Joes’ aggressive play gave them a superior run rate which put them in the finals where they met the Petes again. This was a repeat of the nail biting JoePete match experienced in Sydney few months ago at the same venue. Joes batted first but managed only 77 runs for 9 wickets in their 10 ...

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ST ANTHONY’S VS ST BENEDICT’S – A proud SAINTS partnership – by Afzal Laphir The first XI encounter between St Anthony’s College Kandy (SACK) and St Benedict’s College Kotahena (SBC or Bens) is scheduled to start today at Kotahena. The visitors will be captained by Thisara Ekanayake and the hosts by Steve Arshan. The last victories at Kotahena for the two sides were registered in 2007 (SACK) and 1978 (SBC). Whilst the 2007 win was the Antonians’ last success on any venue, the Bens last win was in 2017 at Pallekelle. The first encounter on record between the two Saints schools took place on 16th October 1909 in Colombo as a “day-game”, which resulted in a 35-run win to the Bens. On a rain-affected day, the home side’s innings was destroyed by Wijegoonewardena (6/25) but the Antonians found the Pinto-Theodore bowling combination too hot to handle, falling for a paltry 48, ...

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Noteworthy Boxing History of St. Anthony’s College, Kandy – By A J M Mushtaq Source :  Antonian Newsletter – September 2023 Boxing was introduced to the schools in Ceylon during the first decade of the 20th century. Two Old boys, Messrs. Cyril E. S. Perera (later Queen’s Counsel & MP for Colombo North) and M. J. Taylor, were instrumental in bringing the game to St. Anthony’s College, Kandy, inspired by Mr. L. Mc D. Robinson, a lecturer at the Government Training College. St. Anthony’s was fortunate to obtain the services of the famed boxing trainer, Mr. John Gaye. Boxing had become so popular that it was hard to decide which of the two games, cricket or boxing, was more popular, with a large number of athletes taking up the sport. In the STUBBS SHIELD tournament, which started in 1914, St. Anthony’s participated for the first time in 1918 and became ...

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SCHOOL CRICKET IN SRILANKA – By Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam First school to start playing cricket in Sri Lanka was St. Thomas’ College in 1864, which was first at Mutwal, and later shifted to Mt. Lavinia, followed by Royal College in 1878, which was then at San Sebastian, and later moved to its present location. They were followed by Richmond College Galle in 1887, Ananda College Colombo in 1892, Trinity College Kandy, Wesley College Colombo, Kingswood College Kandy and Dharmarajah College Kandy in 1893, St. Benedict’s College Colombo in 1895, St. Joseph’s College Colombo in 1896, Prince of Wales College Moratuwa in 1897, St. Anthony’s College Kandy, St. Thomas’ College Matara and St. Servatius’ College Matara in 1899, Central College Jaffna in 1901, Mahinda College Galle in 1902, St. John’s College Jaffna in 1904, Nalanda College Colombo in 1924, St. Peter’s College Colombo in 1933. Since then several other schools had ...

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The oldest Antonian Alive – Leslie Graham 99 not out The life of Leslie Harry Graham at St Anthony’s College Kandy during the years 1928 to 1939. Leslie was in boarding school for 11 years. Sports was compulsory activities, which he participated in. His favourite was soccer and perused with it. The team photo attached was taken in 1936. When he completed his studies, while Leslie was waiting for his results to come from England, he got the opportunity to teach grade five at St Anthony’s College, he really enjoyed that time very much.     ...

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St. Anthony’s College Kandy – Rugby in the 50s onwards Anthonians took up to rugby long after the schools introduced sports like cricket, boxing, hockey, football and athletics. Only in the ‘1950’s did the Anthonians take the oval ball to Katugastota, and Bruce Winter became their first rugby captain. A big hand should go to their great coach in that era, old Trinitian Bobby Jayaweera who spared no pains to teach the Antonians how they should handle the Oval ball. Later Maurice Perera helped in coaching the Antonains. From the day, they touched the ovalball, the game became very popular. In the early days, it remained just an introduction of the game for quite some time, with no signs of attracting the enthusiasm of youthful Antonians. From the day, they touched the ovalball, the game became very popular. In the early days, it remained just an introduction of the game ...

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