Film - Malcolm McKinnon, 'Everyone Would Like To Be As Good: Dot Jenkinson', Mildura Arts Centre

KEITH ROGERS (VOICEOVER): Dot would work for my father on our fruit block at Red Cliffs. In 1953, we decided we'd try and play balls. We came up to the Red Cliffs Bowling Club at least five nights a week. We played 21 up. We played because that was a real cutthroat game. We measured the balls. We did everything properly. We worked very hard to try to improve our game and become good bowlers.

We used to get in the playoffs, and we'd get beat in the first knockout of the playoffs. This happened for three or four years. Then all of a sudden, we won an event. And after that, with Dot's great ability and me trying hard, we won.

Well, without being conceited we were probably really unbeatable. We played at every tournament around the place. We won the majority of them.

People would like to beat her, but they didn't beat her very often.

-I think a natural ability in sport. She was a great sports lady. Nothing worried her. When she used to get out and play, I think she had everybody frightened to the finish. I think they were a little bit frightened of her because we used to win quite a bit. Didn't we Dorothy?

DOROTHY GRANT (VOICEOVER): We did. We did.

JOY O'RILEY (VOICEOVER): And I'd think, oh, not Red Cliffs again, so that used to make  us more determined.

-I think that she definitely was an inspiration. And it was great just to watch her. If she played in the singles or any games, if you just sat back and watched, you would have learned a lot of what to do. Some of the shots, we just shook our heads. They were wonderful.

FAYE SELKRIG (VOICEOVER): I think when Dot was alive, her name would drag people from all over to come and play at Red Cliffs particularly.

When you get to play with somebody like that, well, you try to emulate them. And I thought, this is going to really make me try harder. So I think I've become a better bowler for it.

The Dot Jenkinson Ladies Pairs started in 1996, and as we've gone long, we've just grown and grown and grown. This year our tournament has 146 teams entered. And I mean, it's getting to that stage that we don't know what we're going to do with them. Well, we might to get some skyhooks and make another green hanging from the sky to fit them in.

I think Dot would be laughing, if she looked down on us, and saying, well done.

KEITH ROGERS (VOICEOVER): Everyone would like to be as good. I don't know that anyone  ever will be.

Film - Malcolm McKinnon, 'The Lure of Success: Phil Crump', Mildura Arts Centre

PHIL CRUMP (VOICEOVER): You started off basically riding around in the bush at the back of Cardross here. I bought a motocross bike, and then I was lucky enough to be out at the motorbike club one day, and a bloke by the name of Phil Sedgeman asked me if I'd like to have a ride on his speedway bike. That was the start of it basically. It just seemed to come pretty natural to me. I met a bloke by the name of Neil Street from Melbourne. He was an international speedway rider, and he recommended me to somebody in England, and off I went.

All of a sudden when I got there, I knew nobody, knew nothing about the sport really. And all of a sudden I went from a nobody to beating lots and lots of good riders. It all just happened. I didn't plan anything really. I was pretty competitive. I always put 100% in whether I was riding in Mildura or whether I was riding in England or Sweden or wherever it may have been. I think it was just the fun of riding the thing, just trying to master riding the thing without being tipped off.

BRENDON GLEDHILL (VOICEOVER): Phil was the first of our riders to go internationally, and he really paved the way for all of the other lads that have followed. And there's probably been 30 riders that have gone from this club to ride professionally in the United Kingdom and Europe since that time.

Everybody wants to emulate Phil and I think that was how it all started. I mean, there's boys now that have grown up having never seen Phil race. But they've seen the products of Phil Crump racing. They've seen all of the other good riders that we have at the club, eight-times Australian champion Leigh Adams, Jason Lyons, Mark Lemon, Travis McGowan, all those sort of riders. A lot of good riders that have gone before have actually carried that tradition that Phil Crump started.

PHIL CRUMP (VOICEOVER): Mildura is pretty lucky because you got a terrific speedway here, which is very similar to a lot of the tracks in England. So there's a lot of riders that have gone from Mildura to Europe, and very few of them have been injured, because they were lucky enough they had to learn to ride the bike the right way in Mildura. The way the track is there, you just had to-- It was a really good teaching ground.

I do feel connected with it, you know. Even when I go in now, I think, yeah, well, this is where it basically all started. Most of the riders in Mildura, you can kind of see a little bit of me in the way they ride the bike, so that's pretty pleasing when you look at it that way.

Film - Malcolm McKinnon, 'An Outstanding All-Rounder: Ron Gregg', Mildura Arts Centre

[CROWD NOISE]

RON GREGG (VOICEOVER): I started cricket in 1947, '48. I always played with Ouyen. I  haven't played with any other side, other than representative sides to Adelaide, Melbourne, Swan Hill, Mildura. I played for approximately 25 years.

In those days, there were teams from Underbool, Torrita, Walpeup, Kiamal, Galah, Ouyen, Speed, Tempy, Patchewollock. So really it was a large competition, which was great, because you weren't playing against the same players every day.

[CROWD NOISE]

ARTHUR WILTON (VOICEOVER): I think I started playing cricket with the Ouyen Cricket Club a couple of years before Ron, but when he came into the game, I was absolutely astounded at his ability. From 14 or 15 years of age, he's playing in the senior cricket sides. And he immediately became a drawcard for all around him.

[CROWD NOISE]

Probably the most vivid memories are the grand final against Kiamal Cricket Club, who were probably favorites to win the game, I had. So they had a strong side, batting and bowling.

One batted for two days I think. It was a known dasher batsman, who'd many times be prepared to throw his wicket away to give someone else a hit. He obviously looked as though he could have stayed a bit longer, but in this instance, he was determined to stay as long as he possibly could, and he did.

[CROWD NOISE]

RON GREGG (VOICEOVER): Playing against the West Indies, I'll never forget that. It was just nice to be able to walk out on the ground, whether you're fielding or whether you're batting, to say, well, here I am. And those days-- And I never, never hardly ever wore gloves-- and I didn't wear gloves that day and I paid the penalty.

ARTHUR WILTON (VOICEOVER): My recollection of it was when had made 30-0 out when the Sunraysia team were put into bat against the West Indies. One of them was hit on the arm by West Indian quick bowler, Lester King. When we turned in the West Indies innings, and he absolutely starred in the field. He brought the house down many a time with his returns over the wicket. Even bringing applause to my vivid memory from the West Indies' leading players.

[CLAPPING]

He's regarded as one of the best all around sportsmen that's ever been in the Ouyen district. He would have been an inspiration for many years in the sport of cricket particularly, and of football. There's still talk about, to this day, what his feats in both areas.

[CLAPPING]

RON GREGG: Maybe the bowlers bowled where the bat was at the time, and I was lucky enough to score a few runs. Now, I batted reasonably well, I don't mind saying that.

[CROWD NOISE]

Film - Malcolm McKinnon, 'Putting In For the Club: Chris Brown', Mildura Arts Centre

I think I can go back to 1911, actually, when my old grandfather first came to the Mallee, and this was virgin Mallee scrub at that stage. And the second or third week in, most of them here and were looking for a day off and they all turned up in town and decided to have a game of football. And right from that stage, he started to organise a club. And that, of course, followed onto dad and his brothers and then, I suppose, myself and still all the cousins and nephews and sons through bit of skill.

[WHISTLE]

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

-Every night after school we'd play games of footy. We had no underage organised football at that time. So at the age of 13, I started playing with the men in the seconds. Played a full season at the age of 13 in 1964 and played 'til 1984-- 21 years.

Take a quote from Ron Barassi. Ron Barassi said never be proud of your ability, always be proud of what you do with that ability. And I think I probably got a little bit more ahead of myself than might normally have been. I managed to go coaching for four years and won a premiership on my first year down to [INAUDIBLE] and played 14 interleague games. And I've met the 1975 premiership with the local club. I think you can never get away from anywhere. It doesn't matter how far you go, it's always fantastic to come home to your local club and pull off the premiership.

-Oh!

-Right from the start. The day I left school, I come to a meeting and started off on a committee. So at the age of 17, I've been on a football committee all the way through.

Then after I finished playing, I decided to step up higher and to go on the presidency of the Walpeup-Underbool Football Club at that stage and became a delegate within the Mallee Football League. And then about two and a half years ago, I was elected by the whole of the state to become one of the nine directors of the Victorian Country Football League.

-You got to think of your children. You want to bring them up in the same atmosphere as we did. So you start to realise now that it's your turn-- you can put your part in. And that's the good thing about a small club, small town, everyone does everything to make it as one team.

So you look, and your dad went through Walpeup-Underbool, and his dad, too. And you just feel that you have to support the club, you play for the club. It's your club, you're a part of it, so you do whatever you can to keep playing. Because once that goes, well, no footy club, not many towns survive without that.

Film - Malcolm McKinnon, 'The Possibility of Winning... Deserie Wakefield-Baynes', Mildura Arts Centre

Ah. [TWO GUNSHOTS]

I started shooting back in 1970. My father introduced me to shooting, and gave me my grounding and basically most of my coaching. We were very involved with the Mildura Gun Club at that time, and both Dad and I won our National Championship in the same year-- 1974. His trophy was a gun, and we had that fitted out for me. And that's where I really started to come into my own, I suppose. And I stayed with it and just never looked back.

[TWO GUNSHOTS]

It wasn't until Australia got involved with the international shooting on a female level in '91 that I started the international shooting. And then in '91, I made the first team for the World Championships in Perth, and I made the men's team in '92/'93 for the World titles. And since then, it's just snowballed.

[TWO GUNSHOTS]

To qualify for an Olympic team, that's the pinnacle of all achievements-- whatever sport you're involved in-- and then I was very fortunate. I capped it off with a bronze medal, which I came in as a dark horse. I had never won an international medal prior to that. Just to make the final for the Olympics, it was a marathon in itself-- and then to actually come through and win a bronze medal.

And the approach that I took was that I had absolutely nothing to lose. I had everything to gain, and I really did. It was that 4 or 5 inches between the ears that got me there. [CHUCKLES]

Yeah, I get goosebumps thinking about it. Yeah, the sensation, the crowd, everything-- it's very, very vivid.

Ah.

[TWO GUNSHOTS]

The thing with shooting is that every day is such a different day, and you can't stay at the top all the time. So each day you go out there and you compete, and there's still a challenge. There's still the need to succeed-- the drive to succeed. I still enjoy it. I still enjoy going out there and competing. The adrenalin, the excitement, the possibility of winning, the fear of failure-- I mean, it's all part of it, and it's all there.

Ah.

[TWO GUNSHOTS]

Coming up to the Commonwealth Games, I would really like to be there. I'd like to have another go on home soil and make good. It'd cap off a pretty good career. [CHUCKLES]

[TWO  GUNSHOTS]