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From Red and Black . . .

to Green and Gold


THEIR games range from rugby, soccer and cricket to skydiving and spear-fishing, from tennis and athletics to golf, power -boating, rowing and show-jumping. They are the Old Dalian Springboks, Proteas and other South African internationals. Some have been SA champions. Since 1896 more than 60 Old Dalians have represented South Africa and other countries at sport. Most of their names appear on an honours board in the Old Dalian Assembly Hall. The first was 1896 rugby Springbok Walter Taberer. The latest are loose forward Keegan Daniel, leftwing Bjorn Basson and hooker Bandise Maku, who toured Britain with the Boks last year. Maku was flown in as a replacement and leftwing Basson returned home injured and then for tests for a banned substance. He has since been exonerated. All three are in the Bok training squad chosen before the 2011 World Cup. The most celebrated Old Dalian international in recent years has been pace bowler Makhaya Ntini, the first black African to represent SA at cricket. He retired this year from international cricket after a distinguished career in which he took 390 wickets at an average of 28.8 in Tests and 266 ODI wickets at an average of 24.6. His best figures were 7 for 37 Test wickets and 6 for 22 ODI wickets. Makhaya is still performing well for the Warriors and serving the cause of cricket. Old Dalian SA rugby Sevens players have included Gcobani Bobo, who captained the Sevens in 2007 and was a 15-a-side Bok in 2003-04, Lubalalo (Terror) Mthembu, Luke Smith, Tobela Mdaka, Nick Eyre, Odinga Sivundla, Gareth Krause, Logan Basson (brother of Bjorn ) and Shannon Rick. Shane Spring was selected for the SA Sevens in 2009 but withdrew after a spider bite was considered limb threatening. Bobo is now playing professional rugby in England. In the last two decades other Old Dalian internationals have included cricketers Monde Zondeki (2002 and 2005), Steve Palframan (1993) and former Dale Juniors Dave Callaghan and Meyrick Pringle. Steven Hall played rugby for France in 1988. Wheelchair shot-putter Chejon Fernandes won a bronze medal for Greece in the Beijing Paralymic Games. Exchange student (Dale vice-captain) and later All Black Greg Somerville has retired from international rugby and has been playing for the new Super 15 franchise, the Melbourne Rebels. Apart from Ntini, the most celebrated Old Dalian sportsmen have been cricketer Sibley Snooke, double Springbok Buster Farrer (cricket and hockey), rugby heroes HO de Villiers and CB Jennings, cricketer Hylton Ackerman and tennis internationals Pat Spence and the Blackburn brothers. De Villiers, one of the SAs greatest fullbacks, played against France in 1967, toured that country in 1968 and went on the illfated demo tour of Britain in 1969-70 before a knee injury ended his international career. Jennings, who played for Border while still at Dale, was the first man to replace the famous Boy Louw in the front row in a Test match on the SA tour of New Zealand in 1937. Taberer, the first Old Dalian rugby Springbok, played in the second Test against the British touring team in 1896. Bennett South Africa in a cricket Test against England in 1907. Sibley led SA to victory in the 1909-10 series against England. He played in 25 Tests, scoring more than 1 000 runs and taking 35 wickets, toured England three times and topped the batting averages on the 1907 tour. Still intact is his record of taking 12 wickets for 127 runs in a Test against England at the old Wanderers in 1909. Sibley scored a Test century when he toured Australia in 1910-11 and was still playing Test cricket against England in 1922-23. He managed the 1935 SA tour of England. Hylton Ackerman, chosen to tour Australia with the SA team in 1971 -72, had his hopes dashed when the tour was called off for political reasons. He scored a century in a substitute international match against Australia. After a distinguished playing career he became a provincial and national coach, administrator and TV and radio commentator. Stanley Bayly and Lex Giddy, both Old Dalian national presidents (1925 and 1927), won the SA doubles tennis title together when they were younger. Giddy won the singles championship five years in a row. Douglas and Cecil Blackbeard won several national mens doubles titles in the 1920s as partners and represented SA at the Olympic Games and in the Davis Cup. Pat Spence won several singles and doubles titles in Britain in the twenties and the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1928. He was the doubles champion of France and represented SA at the Olympic Games and from 1924 to 1931 in the Davis Cup. Another SA tennis champion was Marchant Davies, after whom the Eastern Province tennis stadium was named. He partnered Spence to win the SA mens doubles championship in 1921 and won the title again with another partner. A Springbok cricketer, Davis played for Border against the MCC while still at school in 1913-14 and in two Tests for SA against the Australian Forces team in 1919. David Poultney won the SA singles bowls championship. Jerry Cyrus, at age 32, 34 and 36, ran the fastest quarter-mile as a world champion three times. Angling Springboks included Mike Sokolich and Mike Pautz, also a world champion in his age group. In those years Ben Ryan was a lone Old Dalian international golfer. * Who are the next OD internationals? Can Dale provide another Makhaya Ntini? * We regret that for space reasons we have not been able to list all Dale sporting internationals.

KEEGAN DANIEL . . . in action for the Sharks

CAREER HIGHLIGHT . . . cricket hero Makhaya Ntini kisses the hallowed turf at Lords ground, London, after taking his tenth wicket in the second Test against England in 2000
*Picture: AP, with assistance from the Daily Dispatch

GCOBANI BOBO . . . South African Sevens captain

BANDISE MAKU . . . from Bulls to Lions

STEVE PALFRAMAN . . from Border to Springboks

LUKE SMITH . . . a Sevens Springbok

CHEJON FERNANDES .. paraplegic for Greece

FLASHBACK to the 1981 Old Dalian Reunion attended by 15 Dale sporting internationals. Back row (from left): Mike Pautz, Rod Cummings, Buster Farrer and Hylton Ackerman. Middle: Terry Boucher, Trevor Gee, Des Torr, Gary Radue, Brian Mclaren and Mike Sokolich. Front: Anthony Wood, Pee Wee Howe, Pat Spence, CB Jennings and HO de Villiers. (Pee Wee) Howe played two Tests in the 1956 Bok tour "Down Under" and Mike Jennings (son of CB), toured Britain in 1969-70. This was then only the second time in SA rugby history that a father and son had won international honours. Buster Farrer, the first Old Dalian double Springbok, played in six cricket Tests for SA in 1962-64 against New Zealand and hockey against Australia and Rhodesia in 1971-72. In 1990 he played squash in England for an over-fifties South African team. Two Dalians, Derek Fowler (swimming) and Robert Bluett (surflifesaving), represented their countries while still at school. Sibley and Stanley Snooke were the first brothers to play together for

GREG SOMERVILLE . . . from Dale to All Blacks

FATHER AND SON . . . CB and MIKE JENNINGS

SIBLEY SNOOKE . . . record holding cricketer

BJORN BASSON . . . in action for Griquas. He is now with the Bulls.

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