Pennant History

For many years the pinnacle event on the Croquet calendar was the Metropolitan Pennant competition.

Most metropolitan clubs fielded a team and sometimes multiple teams, sometimes in divisions and occasionally divided by region to keep travel down.

Clubs had played ad hoc events for a number of years and once the WACA came into existence this became officially organized. This was often difficult when done by phone calls and letters.

Clubs going to wrong venues and/or on wrong dates happened from time to time and strict rules regarding format and forfeits were enforced.

All play was doubles, usually over two untimed matches with scores added together, thus ties were common.

Most years the winner received a wooden shield and the runner-up a certificate, but on rare occasions something different was offered, in one year a mirror, which still exists in the archive.

In the beginning, there was an A and B Division but this expanded over time to include A2, A3, B2, B3, C and c2.

In 1965, everything changed and so it became Div 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and the Tray (Best performance by a team from any grade)

The first recorded winners of the Metropolitan A Pennant Shield were Euston in 1906. Located in Havelock Street, Euston was one of our very first clubs having been established in 1905 . The competition consisted of teams from Perth, Guilford, Subiaco, Lakeside and Leederville.

The earliest photo we have of any pennant winning team is from the 1907-08 season. Subiaco were the winners of both the A and B Grade Pennants.

One of my favourite photos is of the Bassendean Club who won the C Grade Pennant in 1961-62 and then followed it up with the B Grade pennant in 1962-63 whilst still winning the C Grade Pennant that year with a whole new group of players.

Perhaps the most successful team can be attributed to Mt Lawley. The team of E.Baldwinson, K. Sayers, M. Smith, E. Reay and A. Bevis won the A Pennant title in 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36 and 1938-39.

By tracking the results over time, it provides solid evidence of the ebbs and flows in the popularity of croquet.

The pennant photos have also been an excellent resource in helping us put a face to many of those who went on to represent Western Australia in the EIRE CUP.

Over time, we hope to keep adding images to the collection.

Grade	A	A2	A3	B	B2	C	C2
1906	Euston
1907	Subiaco			Leederville
1908	Subiaco			Subiaco
1909	Kings Park			Leederville
1910	Wanderers			Claremont
1911	Victoria			Kings Park
1912	Mueller Park			Kings Park
1913	Victoria			Perth
1914	Kings Park			Royal Park
1915	Kings Park			Royal Park
1916	Leederville			Claremont
1917	Fremantle
1918	Kings Park
1919	Fremantle
1920	Fremantle			Fremantle
1921	Perth			North Perth
1922	Perth			Subiaco
1923	Cottesloe			Fremantle
1924	North Perth			Victoria Park
1925	Cottesloe			Leederville
1926	Kings Park			Claremont
1927	Kitchener Park	Perth		Mt Lawley
1928	Kitchener Park			Leederville
1929	Kitchener Park	Swan		Perth
1930	Cottesloe	Perth		Royal Park
1931	Mt Lawley	Claremont		Kings Park
1932	North Perth			Royal Park
1933	North Perth	Victoria Park		Victoria Park	Mt Lawley
1934	Mt Lawley	North Perth		Leederville	Mt Lawley
1935	Mt Lawley	Leederville		Mt Lawley	Bayswater
1936	Mt Lawley	Royal Park		Bayswater	Midland Junction
1937	North Perth	Royal Park	North Perth	Nedlands	Mt Lawley
1938	Claremont	Swan	Royal Park	Swan	Royal Park
1939	Mt Lawley	North Perth	Cottesloe	Royal Park	East Fremantle
1940	North Perth	Mt Lawley	Bayswater	Bassendean	Swan
1941	Mt Lawley	Subiaco		Como
1942	Kings Park	Bayswater	Royal Park	Nedlands	Bassendean
1943	Bassendean	Bassendean		Mt Lawley
1944	Bassendean	Mt Lawley		East Fremantle	Perth
1945	Nedlands	Fremantle		Leederville
1946	Nedlands	East Fremantle		Bayswater	Perth
1947	Nedlands	Cottesloe		North Perth
1948	North Perth	East Fremantle	Nedlands	Swan
1949	North Perth	Bayswater	Leederville	Nedlands	Victoria Park
1950	East Fremantle	Cottesloe	Victoria Park	Subiaco	Fremantle
1951	Subiaco	Nedlands	Nedlands	Leederville	Nedlands
1952	Nedlands	Nedlands		Swan	North Perth	Hollywood
1953	Nedlands			Leederville		North Perth
1954	Bassendean			North Perth		Gosnells
1955	Nedlands			Fremantle		Fremantle
1956	Nedlands			Fremantle		Fremantle	Hollywood
1957	Nedlands			Victoria Park		Fremantle	Subiaco
1958	Nedlands			Midland Junction		Hollywood	Leederville
1959	Hollywood			Hollywood		Florest/CB
1960	Swan			Royal Park		Swan
1961	Hollywood			Leederville		Leederville
1962	Hollywood			Florest/CB		Bassendean
1963	North Perth			Bassendean		Bassendean
1964	North Perth			Victoria Park		Victoria Park
1965	North Perth			Bassendean		Subiaco
1966	Hollywood			Florest/CB		Subiaco
1967	Hollywood			Bassendean		Subiaco
	Div 1	Div 2		Div 3	Div 4	Div 5	Tray
1968	Hollywood	Victoria Park		Bayswater	Midland Junction	Royal Park
1969	Hollywood	Victoria Park		Victoria Park	Victoria Park	Bassendean
1970	Hollywood	Subiaco		Como	Gosnells	Gosnells	Hollywood
1971	Hollywood	Subiaco		Como	Gosnells	Gosnells	Hollywood
1972	Hollywood	Bayswater		Florest/CB	Hollywood	East Fremantle	East Fremantle
1973	Bayswater	Florest/CB		Victoria Park	Nedlands	Como	Bayswater
1974	Subiaco	Como		Nedlands	Gosnells	Mt Lawley	Mt Lawley
1975	Nedlands	East Fremantle		Leederville	Mt Lawley	Leederville	Nedlands
1976	Nedlands	Hollywood		North Perth	Como	Como	Como
1977	Subiaco	North Perth		East Fremantle	Mt Lawley	Como	Como
1978	Subiaco	Como		Como	Bayswater	North Perth	Bayswater
1979	East Fremantle	East Fremantle		Victoria Park	Gosnells		Gosnells
1980	Nedlands	Como		Bayswater	North Perth	East Fremantle	Bayswater
1981	Como	Como		Gosnells	Gosnells		Gosnells
1982	Bayswater	Gosnells		Como	Leederville		Como
1983	Gosnells	Bassendean		Como	Bayswater	Subiaco	Subiaco
1984	Gosnells	East Fremantle		Gosnells	East Fremantle		Gosnells
1985	East Fremantle	Subiaco		Bassendean	Leederville		Leederville
1986	Gosnells	North Perth		Subiaco	Como		Gosnells
1987	Bayswater	Gosnells		Gosnells	Florest/CB		Bayswater
1988	Gosnells	Subiaco		Fremantle
1989	Gosnells	Subiaco		Florest/CB	Fremantle		Gosnells
1990	Gosnells			Bassendean	Fremantle	East Fremantle	Bassendean
1991	North Perth	Como		Florest/CB	Bassendean		Como/NP
1992	Bassendean	East Fremantle		Florest/CB	Bass-Bays		East Fremantle
1993	Bassendean	Leederville		Florest/CB	Bayswater		Bassendean
1994	Gosnells	Como		Bayswater	East Fremantle		Como/FCB
1995	Bayswater	Como		East Fremantle	East Fremantle		Bayswater
1996	Bassendean	Floreat/CB		Bassendean	Como		Bassendean
1997		Bayswater			Bassendean		Bayswater
1998		Bassendean		East Fremantle	Sorrento		Bassendean
1999		Como			Sorrento		Como
2000		Nedlands			Florest/CB		Nedlands
2001		Como			Florest/CB		Como
2002		Nedlands			Como-EF		Como-EF
2003		Nedlands			Gosnells		Nedlands
2004		Florest/CB			Gosnells		Florest/CB
2005		Florest/CB			Como		Como
2006	Cambridge			East Fremantle			Cambridge
2007	Como						Como
2008	East Fremantle						East Fremantle
2009	Mandurah						Mandurah
2010	Cambridge						Cambridge
2011	Halls Head						Halls Head
2012	Cambridge						Cambridge
2013 onwards	Not played