The Phoenix of the Cricket World
DEAR Kippax,--Last week "Smith's" very seriously questioned whether you had the Test match temperament. Even your brilliant 260 n.o. against…
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Gregory Beats Hopman in Tennis Test Aus. Wins Doubles British Isles Still Have Lead Improved Tennis Play
THE standard of tennis in the second day's play of the first Teat between Australia and Great Britain was of a vastly improved nature when a further…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arrived by the Aorangi Fashions, Racing, and Business
Passengers by the Aorangi, which reached Sydney yesterday from Vancouver, included:--Mr. W. E. V. Robson, M.L.C.,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hop Harry Fights . Pearce Stadium To-night Boxing and Vaudeville
A MERICAN "Hop" Hurry Stone, one of the best known fighters In Australia. meets Newcastle. hard-hitting welter, Jimmy Pearce, in the main…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lawn Tennis. Britain Leads Australia. Gregory Beats Hopman
As a result of the second day's play yesterday in the lawn tennis test match between Great Britain and Australia, the visiting team is leading by faur games; the rubbers and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Cricket. Click and Kuth Cups Melbourne
On the Fitzroy Cricket Grounds, to-day tenins representing Jewish communities of Victoria and Western Australia met in the final match of the triangular series to decile the destination of the Glick and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Australia Beaten by One Point N.Z. Wins Second Bowls Test
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--The second test match between Australia and New Zealand was played at Wellington to-day on a green made heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Bowls the Test in N.Z. Weather Clears Wellington, N.Z.
Rain delayed the start in the third bowls test match between Australia and New Zealand, and it was decided only to play [?] heads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Standen As "Pro." Velodrome To-night Some Brilliant Racing Expected
TACK Standen, a member of the last Olympic team that participated in the Games at Amsterdam. and who did remarkably well…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shield Cricket. N.s.w. Wins. on First Innings
New South Wales won the Sheffield Shield cricket match against Queensland by 22 runs on the first innings. The local men failed by 39 runs to compile the total necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Pompetttors in the Singles Lawn Tennis Match Between Great Britain and Australia
DR J. C GREGORY (GREAT BRITAIN), WH O DEFEATED H. HOPMAN (AUSTRALIA) IN THREE STRAIGHT SETS. H. HOPMAN (AUSTRALIA), WHO WAS BEATEN BY DR. GREGORY (GREAT BRITAIN))…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Another Even Break in Tennis Test Everything Depends on Willard and Collins
Everything will depend on today's games in the tennis test match, which is being played against. Great Britain at…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →3 Sets to 1 Willard Beats Collins Australia Leads in International Tennis
With rubbers and sets equal, but leading, by four games, the British Isles, tennis team continued its Test Match against Australia, at the N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A.j.c. Warwick Farm Eight Races. Notes for To-day
The Australian Jockey Club will bavo control of the week-end racing nxtuie, and will docide an eight-ovent programme at Warwick Farm this afternoon. Notwithstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →"Real Cricket" Honor to the Loser England Wants All Five London
"Real cricket," says tho "Dally Mall" in a leading article apropos of the fluctuations in the Test Match. "If England wins, as seems probable,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Were Chapman and White Out for Ducks? Mystery--But Not a Cricket One
A LITTLE mystery agitating the curious in Brisbane is whether English cricketers, Chapman and White, were out for a duck when they visited Coochin Station recently. ALTHOUGH this is the close…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seventh Round of Grade Cricket Norths Try Out Nevill of Shore; Stars Will be Absent
Grade cricketers resume their competition this afternoon, after the Christmas holidays, but will be without the Sheffield Shield…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Worshipping at Cricket Shrine While Workers Starve the Tragedy of It All (To the Editor.)
Sir,--The leading article in the "Labor Dully" on the prevailing cricket hysteria accurately sums up the situation. It should be reprinted in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mock Men Not Part for Women Athletic Strain New York
"The outrageous attempt to make Women pseudomen" was attacked here by the Women's Division of the National Amateur Athletic Federation. "False standards, overstrain, and the copying of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Racing Flames Menace the Wollondilly Valley Howling Gale Follows Sydney's Grilling Bush Fires in Many Parts, and Temperatures Reach Century Mark While State Swelters Women Help at Barrallier
Bush fires are raging in many parts of New South Wales. At Barrallier the racing flames now threaten the whole of the Wollondilly Valley. Men, women, and children are fighting desperately…
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