Conan Doyle on Football
If boxing is the finest single-man sport, I think that Rugby football is the best collective one, admits Sir A. Conan Doyle. Strength, courage, speed, and resource are great…
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Golf. Notes From the Links
The recent heavy rain did a large amount of good to the golf courses in and around Sydney, as it came when it was badly needed. The Kensington course in particular was…
Continued on Trove, page 52 →Anniversary Day Amateur Races
Entries for the Goulburn racing on Anniversary Day close at the Sports' Club on Saturday night next, a fact which Union riders should make a note of. There are three events over a half, one, and two miles, for Which…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lawn Tennis. The Country Week
The country tournament produced, a very interesting match at Double Bay, near Sydney on December 28, when Dubbo met Wagga. The result was a win or Dubbo by…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Lawn Tennis. the Bathurst Players
BATHURST, Tuesday.-- Local tennis players and enthusiasts are anxious to have made know that the quartette of Bathurst players who took part in the recent country-week carnival in sydney were not indeed…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Boxing. Send-off to Mr. J. Reeves
Next Thursday evening Mr. Hugh D. M'Int[?]sh will tender Mr J. Reeves a complimentary banquet prior to his departure for London Mr. Reeves, who has managed some of the most famous boxers in the world,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Game of Cricket
Many happy birthday returns on: Jan. 5—J. Swift (N.S.W. umpire), F. G. Reed (Gordon D.C.C). 7—M. M. Campbell (Q.)…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cricket Studies, No. 13
J. B. Lane (Sydney University First Grade Team). J. B. Lane, of the Sydney University First Grade Team, can claim the honor of having represented New South Wales as a cricketer and a Rugby footballer. It is a distinction gained by very few. As a player of the great summer game, he is a good exponent of…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Western District Racing Association. Orange
The committee meeting or the Western District Racing Association was held at the Royal Hotel. There were present Messrs. C. C. M'Phillamy (president), Coy, Dalton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Associated Racing Clubs. Fixtures for 1910
[?] Wednesday, January 5 Victoria Part, Saturday, January 8; Ascot, Wednesday, January 12; Victoria Park, Saturday, January 15; Rosebery,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boxing. Last Night's Fight. M'laglen Defeats Hickman
For two minutes and ten seconds a battle royal, the like of which is rarely seen, was waged at the Gaiety Athletic Hall last night, and then all that was left of it was the proud, upstanding figure of Arthur M'Laglen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Noble Retires From Big Cricket
A "welcome home" was tendered by the Paddington District Cricket Club to Messrs. M. A. Noble and Victor Trumper, Members of the late Australian cricket team, at Bateman's Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →Boxing. Big Contest at the Stadium. Johns V. Douglas
George Johns, the brilliant welter-weight champion boxer of a few years ago, who recently re-entered the roped arena, will face Arthur Douglas, the strong, hard-fighting South African champion, at the Stadium…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lawn Tennis. New Zealand Championships. Wellington, Dec. 31
A lot of very fine play was witnessed at the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association's championship tournament at Auckland this week. F. M. B. Fisher, of Wellington, was in unasually good form, and got…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Club Races and Notes. South Sydney Harriers
From Mr. Geo. P. Parke, hou. sec. to [?] South Sydney Harriers, comes a copy of 1 reprot and balance-sheet presented to members at the annual general meeting, held [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Sporting World. Answers to Correspondents Cricket
D. E. E. (Guyra) asks: "Is it in the rules or cricket for an umpire to give a man out leg before wicket when the bowler is bowling round the wicket?"--A batsman can be out leg before wicket to a bowler…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Test Cricket in Africa. Englishmen Make 310
LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--In the test match against South Africa the Englishmen made 310 in the first innings, to the home team's 208…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →How to Play Lawn Tennis. NO. 6. Ladies' Doubles
The question of position, in ladies' play, differs from the position advocated for gentlemen only inasmuch as the very unsuitable attire with which lady players are…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Country Week Tennis in Sydney; West Australian Boys on Tour
The first country week on the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association Courts at Double Bay proved a most encouraging success. For years the association has been…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →International Cricket. England v South Africa. London, Jan. 3
In the test match between England (M.C.C.) and South Africa, now being played at Johannesburg, the first innings of the Englishmen closed for 310, being 102 in…
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