Victorian Racing Day for Topweights
Good weight carrying performances were put up by Hellenist and Kenney in winning their rutes at Caulfield on Boxing Day. Hellenist was successful…
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Sport, 1931
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Boxing Jack Haines Improving in St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Doctors are confident that Jack Haines (boxer), who was knocked out by Ambroso Palmer on Saturday night, will recover. He has been in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Holiday Racing B.h.j.c. Meeting Early Flower's Handicap
In the presence of a mere handful of people the New Year's Day meeting of the B.H.J.C. was held on the Big course Yesterday afternoon in dull…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tennis Broken Hill Team in Sydney for Country Week Games
A team from Broken Hill has left for Sydney to participate in the Country Week carnival to be held in Sydney beginning on Tuesday next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cricket League Games To-morrow's Play (By "Looker On.")
The seventh series of League games will b[?] to-morrow on the Western Oval No. 1 wicket and on the Jubilee Oval after a fortnight's spell from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cricket Ball Makers Wage Cut Causes Strikes London, December 29
Assorting that the Australian tariff on cricket balls has halved exports, employers in the Amalgamated Society of Cricket Rall Makers at Tunbridge,…
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[A Serion of Articles on the Interhational Game by Famous players and Writers.]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boxing Bobby Blay in New Zealand
Bobby Blay has gone to Wellington (N.Z.) under contract for three contests (says a Sydney newspaper). Blay's first fight is to be with Tommy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sporting Endurance Swimming 42 Hours for Woman
Wellington (N.Z.), January 3. Yesterday Miss mercedes Gleitze, the English swimmer. raised her own endarance record to [?] hours…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robbery From Shop at Mallon's Tennis Courts
A report has been submitted by John Carbis Hynes to the police that between the hours of 1 a.m. and,6 a.m, on New Year's Day a robbery was committed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tennis St. Mary's Tournament H. Graves Wins Singles
The annual handicap tournament being conducted by St. Mary's Tennis Club. Railway Town, will be advanced another stage to-morrow yhen the finals…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cricket League Matches To-day's a Grade Games
The seventh sories of League A grade games began on the Jubilee and Western ovals to-day in excellent weather. On the Jubilee Oval St…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Late Cable News. International Cricket. South Alrick defeats M.C.C.
Capetown, Monday.—South Africa defeated the M.C.C. Team in the First Test by 26 runs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mussolini to Speak to the People of America Broadcast From Rugby (Special to "The Miner.") London, January 1
Sigaor Mussolini will speak for half an hour in English at 7, o'clock this evening at Rome. His speech will be transmitted by telephone to the Rugby…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheffield Shield Cricket Victoria v. N.S.W. Rain Interfered with Play, March Drawn
The above match was commenced in Melbourne on Wednesday last, but owing to rain was greatly delayed and resulted on Monday in a draw. Only one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tennis [A Scries of Articles on the laternational Game by Famous players and Writers.] NO. 15 My Methods in Match Play (By Senorita De Alvarez.)
If you are going to play in a tournament you will have to take lawn tennis seriously. The two most valuable pieces of advice 1 can give you are: —…
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A match was played on the Double Blues' court on Sunday morning between Shelley's Snowcap Tennis Club and the Double Blue Tennis Club,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sporting Boxing Importations Fight Sydney, Sunday Night
Two importations again occupied the ring at the Sydney Stadium last night and the bout lasted lm. 24s. In that period Herman Bundren (America)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sporting Endurance Swimming 42½ Hours for Woman Wellington (N.Z.), January 3
Yesterday Miss Mercedes Glcitzc, the English swimmer, raised her own endurance record to 42½ hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CRICKET (Continued from Page 3.) M.C.C. in South Africa England Follows on in Second Test Match Capetown, January 4
Having lost tho hist Test to the South Africans at Johannesburg, England is in a precarious position in the second being 1G3 runs behind on the…
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