Boxing
A.N.R. (Moree): Sparge never fought in America. The brilliant ex-feather weight champion was never outside Australia. QUERY (Muswellbrook): Six years from…
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Boxing Notabilities
Ian Keith (manager of Willie Smith), Springbok and British Empire featherweight champion Willie Smith, and grand old man of the Australian boxing game, W. Lawless ("Solar Plexus," of "The Referee")…
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Manager of Leichhardt Stadium Ltd., Pat McHugh, who promises to stage fights in a big way at the suburban resort…
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Following is the draw for the Australasian Coursing Club's fixture at Mascot on Thursday:- Alexandria Stakes.—Heat winners of last night's Maiden Stakes…
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Jack Murray and Jack Paul will supply the principal contest of 15 rounds st Rushcutter Bay Stadium to-morrow night. The supporting engagement will be between Pat Carrick and Alby Roberts. Vandeville…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bowls. Wollstonecraft Championship
Results in the championship of Wollstoneeraft Club, for a trophy presented by the patron, Sir Clifton love:—First round: Watson, 31, heat Catts, 18; Quarrell, 33, beat A. Newlands, 13: Reid, 33, beat S…
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CRICKET: The selectors of the 1800 Australian team for England were H. Trumble, J. Darling, and S. E. Gregory. J. SMITH (Albert Club): Yes. It happened…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coursing Good Dogs : Bad Prices
It will be remembered that last April Mr. Len Fowler took a large consignment of Australian greyhounds to Durban (Natal), where it was proposed to start…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Golf. Cronulla Club
Four ball best half v par.—A. J. T. Gliddon and L. C. Norton. 6 up; C. A. Glassop and F. S. Stone, 4 up; V. Maxwell and H.A. Snelling, 2 up; J. McNicol and H. B. Primrose, jnr., 1 up; G. S. Blackmore and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gosford Racing Club
Entries for the meeting of the Costord Racing Club on January 8 are:- Approved Slakes, 6f.—Chrysocolla, Simbake, Aeroacre, Sear, Greyzino, Nardoona, Lady Leuops, Percyllene,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Greyhound Coursing Association. Saturday Afternoon Draw
The Greyhound Coursing Association's draw for the live hare meeting at Epping racecourse on Saturday afternoon is:- Lillyfield Stake.—Miss Veronica, Ants, Cynosure,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Biff, Bash and Boxing Briefs
JOHNNY LECKIE is still in the Land of the Moa. A farmer, well-endowed with worldly possessions, he has told Stadiums, Ltd., hits terms…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Swimming Coming Events Sydney League Club
To-morrow right members of the Sydney League Club will conduct a 100 yards brace relay handicap and next Saturday 66 yards senior and junior 440 yards handicaps, and 93…
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KATOOMBA Carnival was a great success, as evidenced by the crowd of city and country bowlers that occupied all available playing space at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interstate Bowls Tasmania Beats Victoria
The first bowls match at Launceston, between teams belonging to Tasmania and Victoria, resulted in a win for the Tasmanians, who scored 103 points to 82. In the second…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dance at Golf Club
Members of the Royal Sydney Golf Club saw the old year out in a most enjoyable manner last night, when a dance was given at the clubhouse, Rose Day. Although the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country Rush Tennis Championships
On January 8, the country tennis carnival will begin on the N.S.W. Lawn Tennis Ground at Rushcutters Bay. The teams entry is equal to the largest on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cricket Craze
Even the Indies who visit Balmoral are smitten. No doubt they think they could do better than some of our Test players…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swimming. a Nice Trip for Mrs. Borg
SO the lean Swede, Arne Borg, is to put up another record by being the first International swimmer to pay us a second visit. IN 1924, when he was here last, Arne had a trying time in Sydney, for he did not win any of the three races in which he tackled Charlton, and the only straightout win…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Overseas Rugby Ireland Downs France Paris
Fifty thousand people at the Olympic Stadium here to-day [?] Ireland beat, in the international Rugby match by two [?] to nil…
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