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During the long Queensland summer, members of the Bar Association have often taken up their bat and stepped up to the crease. Their triumphs and failures, against old adversaries, the Queensland Law Society; newer opponents, the New South Wales Bar; the Medical Specialists; and the Mt Mee Farmers, have been documented by eminent sports writers, Henry Blofly, Bitchie Renaud and Ian Crappell, and captured on film.

 

Enjoying the Inaugural Inter-Bar Match, 1973

Queensland defeated New South Wales by 57 runs.

Callinan takes the toss at the 1993 Inter-Bar Match.

Enjoying the lunch break in 1973

Still enjoying lunch, 20 years on

 

Callinan hit for six – through the window of the administration building at the Army Barracks, Paddington, Sydney.

 

Bruce Collins standing in front of the window.

 

When shown this photograph, His Honour had a story to tell, "A few years later in another Qld Bar v NSW Bar game I was bowling to Collins.  He executed an almost perfect off-drive, never travelling more than 5 cms above the ground.  It struck mid-off on the toe of his boot, floated gently into the air enabling me to take the easiest and most undeserved of caught and bowled of wickets."

 

Bar v. Solicitors

 

"The practice of an annual cricket match between barristers and solicitors has existed as long as I remember…”

 

The Hon. Mr Justice E.J.D Stanley,

Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland 1947-1964.

 

In 1965, the annual grudge match took on new importance for these two old adversaries, with the introduction of the Chief Justice’s Cup, donated by Sir Mostyn Hanger.

Crowley QC with the Chief Justice’s Cup, 1993.

Barristers & Solicitors Annual Cricket Match

Brisbane Cricket Ground, 8th February 1954

 

Intra-Bar Cricket: The Clowns, Clones, Drones and Wolves

 

"To an outsider unaccustomed to the Bar’s penchant for bending, if not crushing, the rules of anything, the game played would have appeared to have little relationship to that which is played at Lords."

- Henry Blofly

 

In 1983, Callinan’s Clones and Crowley ’s Clowns took to the field for the first Intra-bar cricket match. Over the years, the Clones and Clowns were joined by Dobbin’s Drones and White’s Wolves in a series of matches that produced some fine shots, and many laughs.