In 1939 the Claremont Football Club photo is of Leckie and Smith on tour. The Club had sent a team away to tour through Kalgoorlie through Broken Hill and then to Adelaide. The group went by train for the tour and these photos were taken by Jack Reeves who labelled and kept them and handed them to his daughter.
Secretary Hugh Leckie was one of the longest serving officials in the history of The Claremont Football Club acting in tandem with President Mercer from 1936 to 1949 and presided over one of the golden years of the Club. They were stabilising influences during the heady years 1936 to 1940 during the war years when the senior players were prevented from playing and the competition was run for juniors.
SMITH, Glenville Baker Played 113 games for Claremont between 1926 and 1941. Memorably nicknamed ‘Gunboat’, Glen Smith, unsurprisingly, was not wont to take any prisoners while out on the football field. An incident where Nipper Truscott from South Fremantle being carried off the field on a strtcher was long remembered. A member of Claremont-Cottesloe’s inaugural league team in 1926, he continued with the club for 10 seasons, playing a total of 111 senior games.
