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Sat 25 May 1935 - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954)
Page 8 - Great Football Dramas—No. 5
Great Football Dramas—No. 5
WHEN TERRIFIC HAILSTORM
BURST AT HALF-TIME!
1921 Final Was Most Amazing Of All
By P. J. MILLARD ("Short-Pass")
Retold by an eye-witness, this is the fifth of a series of great football dramas.
It describes how that phenomenal hailstorm at half-time upset the 1921 League
final, between Richmond and Carlton, and the extraordinary scenes at the M.C.C.
ground.
i
H
ULLO! Hullo! Is that the
Melbourne CncV« Groutta"?
Has a terrible hailstorm hit
the ground yet?" An excited
roice rapped out the words over the
•phone.
to™™
A hailstorm? Bless you. no-whj-r
45ked Test umpire Bob Crockett of the
ground staff, who had answered th<
ring. "Then you'll catch it any minute
. . . it's a terror . . . just swamped us
here, and . •
The rest u-as drowned in a terrifyi
n E crash tha t swelled into a m i gh ty
continuous roar, just as if the heavens
u«ere falling on the roof.
The fiercest hailstorm in memory in
Melbourne had burst upon the ground,
half-wav through the 1921 League preliminary
final between Richmond and.
Carlton!
Not one ot the 42.866 persons present ',
on Saturday, October 8. 192L will ever,
forget that memorable game of violent •
weather contrasts—truly the most extra- j
ordinary final of them felL I
A emelling first half on a dry ground •
in fine weather, with Richmond out- •;
slaving Carlton, 5.5 to 2.10 .. . that:
hailstorm of phenomenal fury lashing f
the ground . the sudden, dramatic j
change to Antarctic conditions . . . the J
playing arena covered with white hail
inches deep . . . not a blade of grass i
visible . , . umbrellas riddled by bul- J
lets of hail . , . thousands of spectators i
soaked and freezing . . . rain pouring!
down . . . and then—on with the game!!
. . . that remarkable second half, with!
numbed, mud-coated players strugeline
blindly for an elusive, slippery ball in
a swirling, icv morass . . . Richmond's I
desperate fight as Carlton, brsving the :
appalling conditions better, mad? a eal- •
lant bid for victor.', that just failed!
From half time the match was a whirl.
of unbelievable, unforgettable scenes, j
Scores And Teams
Scores, quarter bv quarter, were:—
,
1st 2nd 3rd Final.
Richmond 4.2 5.5 S.5 10.7 <67 pfc.)
Caritoo . U 2.19 7.14 7.17 (SSpte.)
The teams
RICHMOND
Backs: G. WeaUwriJL Thorp, Taylor.
Half-fords.: Don. ft. Weatherlll. TnmbulL
Forwards: Herbert Bavlfc*. Hall,
fodovm: Mfoogree. H. Jamei- .
Kover: Hngfatt.
„„
HaV-bacte: Raleieh, O'Brien. CreeiWIl
r
:
one still playing senior football *- " *" in Mel.
bourne. Dan Mlnopue and Checker
Hughes a„ coaching" St Kildi.snd Mel-
bourne respectively" Baroev Herbert, o!
muST URichrnond-s oresddent.
Tr- R
j
r^Q. ^L L^-^L^fLlSr
.f lfi
•
tLi rTrhnn 911
^5(11 in ^
had defeated Collmgwooa i,.10> in the
™
had finished the home and home
matches:—
CARLTON
....
W.
1."
tl
2
L. Pts.
RICHMOND .. .. 12
-
COLLING WOOD
9 —
GEELOXG
..
..
? —
Carltcn had the double
Essendon. with three wiris. 2 draws and
11 defeats, were last.
The first half of the "final''
1
'
hard, tearing battle. Richmond were thef
dashmg
Carton Vhe lugged
J"!
" ^ ' t j ? ? * T
fej 118^ , being t
f R rt^m,
F 031 . P<*
^"Me
At
jM
£ V 13 W**-!although
. ha< ? 8lwa >' s appeared dangerous, j
While the teams were in their dressing!
broke without , . warning, , , sl . :c _ _
cold puffs of wind and vivid lightning,
Plucky £150 Bet
.. , . . .. . . ..I
It was lmmeoiately obvious that bom
teams would have to adapt their play
to the suddenly changed1 conditjons. This
seemed likely to favor Carlton, as Richroond
had been the faster and more:
, *. ... a wU-knov-Ti lisht-'
' * ^ r ^ th? Richmbnd
wwght l»*er •«niMred the
roojru
bv^ich-1
-evens. Ho was promptly 1> "set
by o> men
mond players, officials, and supported
Hit judg^nent p:o-.-ed to be s.^hWy
astray but ^ t e W . ^ ^ t a ! ^
sportsman. —- r—
a belter reward.
- v , . .
The moment the hail hurtied do«n.
spectators scurried for shelter Bandsmi.
who had been playing "A Perfect
D.v- on ^^ junds and in-
Vfith
terrific force the
.""SJl^T'j
storm struck the
"""
high
stands and rattled alarmingly on roofs,
In. , few minutes the uie whole wnoie arena
...... v..«. abnormally large hail stones.
mortJy of jaggec. irreeuUr shape.
Undcr the semi-open stanos, people,
sJiivering with cold, huddled together. In
the open, stoic spectators were drenched
and almost frozen. Panic seized many,
In a frenry of fear they banged and
kicked at closed doofs. and stampeded
into bars and refreshment rooms.
h e hail storm, mercifully, lasted only
f, minutes. It did vast damage in
lbourne and suburbs. As it passed
on. heavy rain came. Seeing bad£
needed shelter going to waste in the
members' enclosure, crowds Irom the
"outer" surged across the white, stormswept
arena to the sacred reserve,
where, in their blind rush, thev trampled
down Bert Lutfrell's prized flower beds
and fancy borders.
It was en unprecedented invasion. On
the way over manv of the younger
spirits waged an "ice-ball war." There
was a roar of laughter as a man slid
ards. to tu fall i.ji in ui the uie haiL iihil There mere
was
hushed silence when he did not rise. He
had to be carried in. injured.
Just as the rain had ceased (or a while,
put came (he players, to gaze on a desolate
spectacle without parallel in League
football. Water was everywhere, swirlmg
over the arena. Flood streams from
the park outside were pouring into the
ground. To make it worse, a water pipe
n the ground had burst!
J
It was a remarkable scene, the more:*
so when above the packed and drenched
mass of people rose a cloud of steam.
A tremendous splash in the centre,
nd the "game" was on again! Into the
icv torrent plunged the players. The.v
lid, slipped and slithered. Carlton at
once were the more adeDt at this new
sport of "splash-ball." The Tigers, true
to name, were unhappy in the Polar
4
setting.
Gone G was their 1 — friskiness an~d
ierceness.
Adept At "Splash-ball"
Carlton men often fished the ball, now'
... , , . , , . i
hke a lump of grease, out of the muddy i
depths as dexterously as an angler landing
a trout. So boggy was the ground
that b player bumped a behind post
°r f its , ^
a " d j i
flve
minutes to replace it. With conditions
rv. the Blues had constantly , failed . in
and stuck. marked—yes, Vet in the actually slush, marked—like
they kicked
champions!
In the closing stages, when Richmond,
to some extent, had found their feet,
they, like Carlton, became amphibious,
finishing
gamelv, bat'Jed through
,0 win b}. eig;ht points
Thus ended an
astonishing match, which, for one thing.
[^j illustrated the adaptability of Victorian
footballers.
Richmond's best that day u-ere:—Halt
Herbert. Mcintosh. Hislop. Thorp. Min-
Tavlor. Hughes and Smith;
and
Carlton's
were
Riskens.
McLktchie.
Fisher.
Blackmore.
Duncan,
who.
kicking l
poorly, gathered a harvest of behinds. |
' fcSui"'rf .the/storm.; the Association
.
_ .
.
. .
_
preliminary final, on the historic East
Melbourne cricket ground, was aband<!nc(i.
lvilh Williamrfo«-n 10.5 to Footscrav's
9.T. Plaj-ers were cut by jagged
hsi-,
The mitch.
re.pUyed
the follow*ing
Saturday, when
won by 9.H to 10.5.
Williamstown
plaved* on the
old
East
Melbourne'
ground. It was soon afterwards lorn up,
to become oecome railway re.way yards.
^
wason Richmond. defeating C a r
ton by 5-6 (36 pt5.»
4.8 i32 pts.) in a^
desperate grand final won their second:
League pennant^-another
triumph
for
Dan Minogue. their captain and coach. ;
who the previous season had led them
to their first League premiership.
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APA citation
Great Football Dramas—No. 5 (1935, May 25).Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954), p. 8 (Edition1). Retrieved November 25, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181690624
MLA citation
"Great Football Dramas—No. 5"Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) 25 May 1935: 8 (Edition1). Web. 25 Nov 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181690624>.
Harvard/Australian citation
1935 'Great Football Dramas—No. 5',Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954), 25 May, p. 8. (Edition1), viewed 25 Nov 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181690624
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{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181690624 |title=Great Football Dramas—No. 5 |newspaper=[[Sporting Globe]] |volume= , |issue=1339 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=25 May 1935 |accessdate=25 November 2025 |page=8 (Edition1) |via=National Library of Australia}}

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