Roy Parks - An Aussie Football Player And Brilliant Cricketer Whose International Career Took Second Place To Wartime Service

https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 22nd July, 2023. Australian time | Ozguy1945

[Ozguy1945]

Roy Park played Australian Rules football and cricket at the highest levels. He played 85 games of "footy" in the Victorian Football League and one test match for Australia against England.

At school, Park’s batting so entranced his schoolmate, future Prime Minister and cricket tragic future Robert Menzies, that Wikipedia reports that Menzies: “……. recalled reading Shakespeare behind the school practice nets, “so that he could partake of the bard whilst watching Park bat.” “

Roy Park could have played more cricket for Australia but circumstances forced him to put wartime service first.

Those Were The Days.

[EEGator]

I have no clue what footscray even means…

[Ozguy1945]

:I have no clue what footscray even means…”

The name of a Melbourne suburb where one of the footy teams Parks played for was located.

[EEGator]

Thank you.