Jack Reece        26-Mar-1917 - 23-Jul-1995

Lake View & Star CC were lucky enough to have Jack Reece play 9 matches for them across the 1938-1939 (2 matches before he was operated on for appendicitis) & 1940-1941 seasons when he played 7 matches & was a member of the side that lost the Grand Final against High School CC in the Saturday Turf Association. Having been born & raised in Adelaide he made his 1st grade pennant debut for Glenelg & was attending a night bowling school under the tutelage of the great test leg spinner Clarrie Grimmett & former test batsman & South Australian Coach C.E. (Nip) Pellew. By 1935 he was playing for the Colts side where Pellew was now his club captain & coach. In his first match against the Kensington side in a 1 day game he took 5/33 including the wicket of Don Bradman, a feat he was to replicate again in Feb 1940 when he played for Goldfields against a SACA side captained by Bradman at the Kalgoorlie Oval (now Sir Richard Moore). A member of the Qld Sheffield Shield squad in the 1937-38 season he was a Claxton Shield winning baseballer for South Australia & also represented Victoria in a Claxton Shield campaign. During WW2 he enlisted in the R.A.A.F & was stationed in Yorkshire at R.A.F. station Lissett flying Handley-Page Halifax Bombers with 158 Squadron.


Harry Carrington        30-Oct-1911 - 22-May-1944   
 

Born in 1911 in Fremantle, Harry Carrington first seems to have appeared in the Goldfields in 1932 when he became a premiership player for Boulder City Football Club. In 1936 he was playing WAFL football for Perth Football Club (as a ruckman for 2 seasons) & by 1938 was back in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. In the 1938-39 season he played the first of his 2 seasons for Lake View & Star Cricket Club in the Saturday Turf Association.

A premiership player in 1938-39, Harry played both of his seasons alongside the legendary Jack Reece. Stats wise he was pretty successful with the ball in 38-39 taking 20 wickets @ 12.3 with 1 x 5 wicket haul.

In the winter of 1940 he won another local football premiership, this time with Mines Rovers. In the summer of 1940-41 he played his second season for Lake View having more success in this year with the bat scoring 232 runs @ 16.5 with 1 x 50. This powerful Lake View side finished runners up in this season & Harry also played in the Saturday Turf Association side that finished runners up in the A Grade Boan cup (An Eastern Goldfields side that had future W.A. captain Wally Langdon in it).

Harry represented the Goldfields in Baseball, playing locally for the Lake View team & worked as an Electrician for Great Boulder Gold Mines on the Golden Mile.

Having enlisted in the R.A.A.F. in 1941, by 1944 he was in the U.K. with 49 Squadron (Bomber Command) & on the 22nd May whilst on a mission to attack Duisburg Germany, the Lancaster Bomber he was piloting was shot down over Roosendaal en Nispen (occupied Holland at the time).

Pilot Officer Henry Joseph Carrington is buried in Roosendaal en Nispen cemetery in Holland alongside 5 of his crew members.

                                                                                                Lest we forget.

John Grigg        22-Jan-1904 - 30-Dec-1990   
 

Born in Geraldton in 1904, between 1920-21 & 1923-24 Johnny Grigg was in Perth playing in the  WACA Colts side. His Seniors cricket career whilst in Perth saw him play for a variety of different clubs including Subiaco, West Perth, East Perth, North Perth, Nedlands & Perth in both A  & B Grade (pennant competition). An all rounder, he was described in the Kalgoorlie Miner in December 1938 as a "fast medium opening bowler & a batsman noted for his quick scoring". Many a newspaper article refer to him in the 1930's as one of the hardest, longest & cleanest hitters in the pennant competition in Perth. An accomplished Australian Rules footballer, he was a premiership player in the WAFL for Subiaco in 1924, Captain of the club in 1933 & represented Western Australia against South Australia in Adelaide on the 3rd July 1926 (Younger brother Harry had the distinction at the time of having been one of only a handful of people to have represented W.A. in both cricket, (cap no. 88, 3 matches) & also playing Australian Rules football for W.A. (in 10 matches) - he had been capped in both sports at the age of 18!).

 Johnny Grigg played 49 matches for Lake View & Star CC in the Saturday Turf Association between 1938-39 & 1941-42, scoring 913 runs @ 17.9, 6 x 50's with a H.S of 75 & capturing 108 wickets @ 14.1, 4 x 5 wicket innings, 1 x hat trick & best bowling 6/49, 14 x catches & 1 x stumping. 2 time LV&S CC premiership player in 1938-39 & 1939-40, he also was a member of the 1940 Goldfields Cricket Association side that won the Boan cup (batting at 4) & the following year captained the 1941 Eastern Goldfields Association side (which included Wally Langdon) that eventually lost the final to Tambellup.   

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Richard (Dick) Fitzgerald

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Dick Fitzgerald played for several different cricket clubs in Kalgoorlie- Boulder in his roughly 12 years of playing the game here. In 1947-48 & 1948-49 he lined up with the Viewers in the Saturday Turf Association, playing 17 matches, taking 103 wickets & becoming a two-time premiership player with us in the process. He was described in the Kalgoorlie Miner 29 Jan 1947 (page 6) as "a fastish left-hand bowler, he maintains an accurate length while concentrating on the leg stump. He possesses the ability to turn the ball disconcertingly from the leg occasionally and can be relied upon to keep the runs down". A regular representative player for the Goldfields, at Country week in 1949 he took out the A Section Bowling Average with 20 wickets for 108 runs @ an average of 5.4. In April of 1949 Dick represented Goldfields against the WACA & earnt the distinction of taking 10 wickets for the match including 9/28 from 13 overs with 3 maidens in the first innings. By 1950-51 he had shifted to Perth & was playing 1st Grade pennant cricket for the South Perth Cricket Club, winning that clubs bowling average in his first year, 36 wickets @ 15.4. On Boxing Day in 1950 he ripped through a powerful North Perth line up taking 9/32 (19 overs, 9 maidens). Roy Mitchell named him in his best ever Lake View side in 1995. For LV&S CC he played 17 matches, scored 228 runs @ 14.25, 1 x 50, top score of 66. With the ball, 103 wickets for 579 runs @ 5.6, 2 x 10 wicket matches, 10 x 5 wickets in an innings, best bowling 7/12.

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