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1939 Claxton Shield

Field	Value
name	Australia Interstate Baseball Carnival
year	1939
date	29 July – 5 August
host	Victoria Melbourne, VIC
defending_champs
teams	5
champion
num_championships	3
runner-up1
runner-up2
previous	1938
next	1946

| runner-up1 = | runner-up2 = The 1939 Claxton Shield was the sixth annual Claxton Shield, an Australian national baseball tournament. It was held at Richmond Cricket Ground, Albert Ground, South Melbourne Cricket Ground, and National Park in Melbourne from 29 July to 5 August, the second time Melbourne had hosted the Shield. New South Wales won the Shield for the third time, successfully defending their title from the previous two years. Queensland joined the other four states for the first time in the tournament. The other participating teams were Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia. It was also the first year an Australia national team was picked primarily based on the Championships.

Format

As had been the case in the 1937 tournament, the four teams played a round-robin schedule, meeting each other team once, with two competition points on offer in each game. The points were awarded as follows:

Win – two points
Tie – one point
Loss – no points At the end of these preliminary games, the top two teams played each other to determine the champions, while the remaining two teams faced each other to determine third place. In the event of a tie between teams in terms of points, the tiebreaker used would have been the net runs for and against, with the team achieving the greater value and placing in the higher position.

Results

Preliminaries

Team	Points	Wins	Ties	Losses	For-Against
****	6	3	–	1	+16
****	5	2	1	1	+23
	5	2	1	1	+20
	4	2	–	2	+22
	0	–	–	4	-81

Finals

Third place final

Championship game

All-Australian team

At the conclusion of the tournament, representatives from the Australian Baseball Council selected an All-Australian team. Though the selected team did not actually play together, it was the first time an Australian team had been selected.

Position	Player	Pitcher	Catcher	First Base	Second Base	Third Base	Short Stop	Outfield	Utility	Manager
New South Wales J. Lanfear
Western Australia C. Puckett
New South Wales L. Miller
New South Wales A. Goodwin
Western Australia A. Barras
South Australia F. Catt
New South Wales W. Rankin
Victoria R. Corby
New South Wales N. Blanche
Victoria S. Yum
Victoria J. Denison
New South Wales G. Borwick
New South Wales D. Mould

References

Bibliography

References

(28 July 1939). "Baseball Teams Here To-Day". [[The Argus (Australia).
(3 August 1939). "Baseball Win To S.A. – N.S.W. Surprised". [[The Argus (Australia).
(5 August 1939). "Ground For Baseball Final Changed". [[The Argus (Australia).
(11 July 1939). "Baseball – Entertaining The Teams". [[The Argus (Australia).
(8 August 1939). "Baseball Games To Continue – Australian Team". [[The Argus (Australia).
[[#refClark. Clark 2003]], pp.52–4
[[#refHarris. Harris 2009]], p.28

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