THE Ulverstone Cricket Club is planning a celebration of its premiership teams from 50 years ago.
The 50-year reunion is to be held at the club's River Road complex on Saturday, February 25.
The evening will celebrate the premiership wins of the first grade team in 1959-60 and 1961-62.
There are eight players still alive from the two seasons and four of them were lucky enough to play in both premierships.
Roy Stott, Len Pearce, Bruce Whish-Wilson, Bill Brain, Barry Gray, Sandy Blake and Ray Faulkner are the surviving members will be feted on the night.
Guest speaker will be former Australian Test player and one-day international representative Dean Jones who continues to be involved in cricket as a media commentator.
This season marks the 60th year since Ulverstone joined the NWTCA competition giving the club another reason to celebrate on February 25.
Former players Scott Blair, Adrian Pearce, John Allan and Bill Thompson have been helping plan the reunion and last week cast their eye over a scorebook from that era.
Blair and Pearce are from the latest generation of players while Thompson played in the 1950s and Allen in the 1960s and 70s.
CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR
THE trip to Tasmania for the Christmas carnivals series obviously did Swiss cyclist Franco Marvulli no harm.
Marvulli returned to Europe in time to compete in the Rotterdam six-day race and came very close to pulling off a victory.
He and Dutch partner Jens Mouris were on top of the leaderboard going in to the final night of racing, but couldn't hold off the finishing sprint of Peter Schep and Wim Stroetinga and had to be content with a close second.
Marvulli has been paired with Marcel Kalz from Germany for the Bremen six-day race.
German Marcel Barth, who also rode in Tasmania, resumes the six-day circus in Bremen and is riding with Milan Kadlec from Czechoslovakia.
LACK OF GAS
LATROBE'S Robin Broomhall was keen to host a Christmas barbecue for family and friends.
He keenly took on the role of chief cook and had everything in order as he was about to strike the barbecue.
One of his mates then asked what fired the barbecue. Was it gas, electric or firewood?
Broomhall assured everyone it was a gas fired barbecue and was then asked where the gas bottle was.
It seemed it was locked away in his work shed and not in its customary place at the base of the barbecue.
A sheepish Broomhall then had to collect the bottle and connect the hose before it burst into action.
ANGRY PIG
SPREYTON racehorse trainer Darren Kenny is best remembered at this time of the year as the trainer of 10-year-old Pindari Prince who won the Devonport Cup in 2009.
Kenny has spent the new year as caretaker of a mates herd of pigs at Port Sorell.
Everything was going according to plan until one morning when Kenny was attacked by a sow as he went to feed them.
Kenny was unaware the sow had been pregnant was keen to protect her piglets which had been born overnight.
EXTRA WASH
CARRICK Harness racing identity Maree Breward is still attempting to dry herself after a mishap at a car wash in Launceston.
Breward considered it was time her trusty station wagon had a spruce up and she drove it through the car wash.
Halfway through and she realised she had left the windows down and made the situation worse when she tried to stop the car and wind them up.
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