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1934 Claxton Shield

Field	Value
name	Australia Interstate Baseball Carnival
year	1934
date	5 – 12 August
host	South Australia Adelaide, SA
defending_champs	Inaugural tournament
teams	3
champion
num_championships	1
runner-up1
runner-up2
next	[1935](1935-claxton-shield)

| runner-up1 = | runner-up2 = The 1934 Claxton Shield was the first annual Claxton Shield, an Australian national baseball tournament. It was held at the Adelaide Oval and Hindmarsh Oval in Adelaide from 5 to 12 August, and was won by the hosts South Australia. The other participating teams were New South Wales and Victoria.

The tournament was the first of what would be an ongoing series of regular national tournaments. Prior to 1934, there had been interstate tournaments, where one state would host only one of the others for a series of games, and there had been two national tournaments, the first in 1910 with New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria, the second in 1912 which also included South Australia, both of which were won by New South Wales. Though the specifics of the tournament's format would change over the years, with the exception of the suspension due to World War II, the tournament would continue through to 1988 as the highest level of baseball in the country.

Format

Each team met each other team twice over the course of the week. In each game, two competition points were on offer to the teams. The points were awarded as follows:

Win – two points
Tie – one point
Loss – no points At the end of the tournament, the team with the most points was declared the winner, and awarded the Claxton Shield. As there was a tie between New South Wales and Victoria for second place at the end of the tournament, their net for and against was used to split them, hence New South Wales finishing second.

Results

References

Bibliography

References

(8 August 1934). "Interstate Baseball—Victoria Defeats N.S.W.". [[The Argus (Australia).
(6 August 1934). "Victoria Defeated". [[The Argus (Australia).
(10 August 1934). "Baseball—Tie Between Victoria and N.S.W.". [[The Argus (Australia).
(13 August 1934). "South Australia Wins Championship". [[The Argus (Australia).
Kent, Mitsie. "Baseball Backgrounder". Australian Baseball Federation.
(14 August 1934). "Baseball—Interstate Series". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
[[#refClark. Clark 2003]], pp.52–3
[[#refHarris. Harris 2009]], p.26

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