The dominant South Fremantle combination of 1952, 53, and 54 completed a unique hat trick in Western Australian football that has surely never been equalled or bettered, when they took off the league and reserves premiership double three years in a row.   There were naturally many players starring in the seconds each week who could have walked into any other league side, but many stayed, preferring to play seconds with a strong club rather than league at a weaker one, clinging to the hope of a lucky break. Peter Amaranti was a perfect example of a top class performer unable to crack a regular league game because of the sheer talent of those occupying places in the league side. A centreman, he was competing with players like Tony Parentich, Eric Eriksson, Frank Treasure, John Colgan, and Pat Daly, all State representatives, but Amaranti had faith in his ability, and, undeterred, kept starring in the seconds, winning fairest and best awards in the 1952 and 54 seasons, while playing fifteen times in league ranks.   A product of the South Fremantle juniors, Amaranti's football education was provided initially in the Cobbers Association, later the Temperance League, and eventually it was the Ex Scholars, under the coaching of South star, Frank Treasure, who set him on the path to a league career. “I went to South in 1951, played a few seconds matches in a back pocket, but played up a bit, and ended up back with the Ex Scholars,” Amaranti recalled. “Frank got hold of me, sent me to centre half forward, and I kicked twelve goals twenty four, so he left me there.” Returning to Fremantle Oval in 1952, Peter played in the seconds, coached by Len Crabbe.   The seconds grand final of 1954 was the catalyst for Amaranti to look elsewhere. “I had been approached by Ron Jarvis and Charlie Strang about the possibility of a move to the battling Subiaco, and hadn't given it much thought, until a youngun by the name of John Todd put his spectacular stamp on the seconds grand final of that year,” said Peter. “I thought, “this doesn't look good for my future at South,” so I decided to make the move.” It proved to be the forerunner of a migration of South fringe players to the Maroons. The appointment of South ruck rover Charlie Tyson as Subiaco coach a year later saw Don Glass, Bill McGilvray, and Colin Hickman join Amaranti at Subiaco Oval. Amaranti hit the league scene running in 1955, named fairest and best in his first season in the maroon and gold. A hard at the ball, close checking midfielder, he was a reliable mark, with exemplary delivery of the ball to his forwards.    A highlight of the year for Peter was the first meeting with his former club, when Parentich was moved off him by South coach, Clive Lewington. “It was a big difference at first, coming from a top side to a bottom one,”he commented. “You certainly had to earn your kicks.” He became a leading centreman in the WANFL, only prevented from achieving State honours by the presence of some of the State's best ever centremen. Ray Sorrell, Tom Everett, Kevin Clune, Don Marinko, Todd, Parentich, Brian Gray, and Ken Armstrong graced WA football ranks at the time, making it tough for an aspiring centreman to get State recognition. Sorrell and Clune regard Peter as one of their toughest opponents. Amaranti played a big part in the resurgence of Subiaco in the late fifties, culminating in a grand final appearance in 1959, when they were valiant twenty three point losers to a rampaging East Perth, who won their third flag in four years. Peter coached the seconds side in 1965, before retiring that year, after a one hundred and sixty nine game career with Subiaco to add to his fifteen at South Fremantle. Amaranti's fitness and ability to  shrug off injury enabled him to have an almost injury-free run over a fine career. Amaranti subsequently returned to South Fremantle in a junior coaching role, and was later made a life member of the Melville Junior Football Club, adding to similar honours he received from Subiaco Football Club and the WANFL. Unable to separate the top players he played against over his career, Peter had no hesitation in naming Subiaco's Laurie Kettlewell as the best he'd played with. A boiler-maker by trade, Amaranti has a long running business, P & D Amaranti Engineering, at Bibra Lake. These days he is semi retired, swapping the tools for a fishing rod, with a getaway down South a favourite pastime, with wife Dorothy(formerly Foster), who was an  All Australian softballer.  The Amarantis have two daughters and a son, Mark, who inherited some of Dad and Mum's sporting prowess, playing a hundred and eighteen games with East Fremantle and managing to achieve something Dad didn't, two premiership flags. The story of Peter Amaranti is a lesson in perseverance to any aspiring footballer. A man who believed in his ability, he became one of this State's best centremen in one of the finest eras for  specialists of that position the WAFL has known. The most satisfying respect one can have is that of his peers, and Peter Amaranti achieved that.