Tilden on Tennis (No. 7.) Tilden Gives Cameramen Grey Hairs
FILMING a car speeding at 85 miles an hour would be easy compared with filming Bill Tilden on the tennis court,” said. Ray McCarey director of the…
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Sport, 1931
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Cricket Major's Creek v. NOWRA
The inter-district match between Nowra and Major's Creek was played on the latter's wicket on Sunday before a big crowd of spectators. The…
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The following are the results of St. Bede's tennis tournament (ladies' doubles), played at Braidwood on Wednesday last. The winners were…
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The batting display of Nowra's crack run-getters at the Creek last week was rather disappointing. Some of these men are noted quick-scorers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tilden on Tennis (No. 8.) How Tilden Figured Out Tennis Angles
WILLIAM T. TILDEN the tennis ace, who has made a series of instructive picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contends that a great measure of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Golf Hints (No. 10.) Playing the Chip Shot
THE chip shot to the pin is weakness displayed by the majority of players. Control—which gives direction —and the pack of judging the proper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket Collector Defeats Veterans
Collector easily defected the Veterans on Sunday at Collector. Two cars, carrying the Veterans broke down and had to be towed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cricket Pirates v. REIDSDALE
These teams met on the Rec. on Sunday, when Reidsdale turned the tables on the home team with a vengeance. A feature of the match was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cricket F.C.T. Cricket Association a Grade
Failing to reach Kingston’s score by twelve runs, Northbourne XI suffered a first innings defeat in the A grade match on the Kingston wicket. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Golf Hints (No. 11)
WHEN a golfer feels right at the top of the swing it is so much in his favor as far as confidence goes. One famous golfer told me that he always…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mechanical Hare Coursing on Queanbeyan Ground Show Lease Arranged For
A largely attended meeting of the Committee of the Queanbeyan F. and A. Association last night decided on an agreement to lease…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tilden on Tennis (THE LOB—No. 9 of Series)
THE lob used to drive the Opponent back from the net. and is used in three ways. One is a chop lob, the second one is the back spin lob like a chop stroke…
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The Braidwood cricketers visited Major's creek on Sunday, but returned home a little fie worse for wear. The Creek won by five wickets and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Inter-district Cricket on Queanbeyan Park Oval on New Year’s Day
A Queanbeyan District XI. will meet a strong representative eleven from Canberra on Queanbeyan Park Oval, oil New Year’s Day. with [?]…
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