Charles Geldart "Gillie" Wilson (9 January 1869 – 28 June 1952) was an Australian
first-class cricket
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er who represented
Victoria and played with
Otago
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and
Wellington
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in New Zealand. He also played
Australian rules football
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for
St Kilda in the early
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL).
The first part of Wilson's sporting career took place in Victoria. Recruited from suburban Melbourne-based team Hawksburn, Wilson debuted for St Kilda in
1887
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
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, when they were competing in the
Victorian Football Association
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(VFA). Wilson played two senior VFL games, the first came in the inaugural season in
1897
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
against
Geelong
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...
at
Corio Oval and the other at
Junction Oval
Junction Oval (also known as the St Kilda Cricket Ground, or the CitiPower Centre due to sponsorship reasons) is a historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The oval's location near the St Kilda Junc ...
in
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
against
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
. He later served as a club secretary. While a St Kilda player he made three first-class cricket appearances for his state, as a right-handed batsman, all in the 1890s against
Tasmania
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Wilson moved to New Zealand in 1902 after his football career finished, and became manager of the
Invercargill
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branch of Sargood, Son and Ewen, a New Zealand warehousing and manufacturing company.
He made his first-class debut in New Zealand when he took the field for the
South Island
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against
Lord Hawke's XI at Dunedin in 1902–03. He was the first player to score a century for
Southland, which he did against Otago in 1903–04 with 117 not out. He was transferred in his work to
Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...
in 1905, and from 1905 to 1912 he represented Otago in the
Plunket Shield and other first-class cricket fixtures, captaining the team most of the time and serving on the Otago cricket Association executive from 1907 to 1912.
[ He then moved to Wellington where he played for the province until his retirement in 1920.
He had his best summer in 1908–09, when he scored 429 first-class runs at 71.50 with two hundreds. One of those hundreds was an innings of 188 against Hawke's Bay, where he was captain and opened the batting. He followed it up with 49 in the second innings.][
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1869 births
1952 deaths
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Otago cricketers
Wellington cricketers
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
St Kilda Football Club players
South Island cricketers
People from the Colony of Victoria