Cameron Comes to Sydney Acquisition to Swimming
A real acquisition to Australian swimming, J. Cameron, New Zealand's champion sprinter, arrived in Sydney by the Marama…
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14,775 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250
Country Bowls Carnival Big Entry Received
There has been a great response for the Country Carnival, which will commence on Monday, February 3, and continue to…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Swimming State Titles Saturday Opening the Sprint Tussle
THE stage is now set for the State championship carnivals—the first of which will be held at the Domain Baths on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Honour Finished Racing Severe Leg Injury
Just before the Great Northern Derby at Auckland last week, Honour broke a small bone in one of his legs, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Year Racing Placed in Both Cups
On Boxing Day the placed horses in the A.J.C. Summer Cup, 1 mile 5 furlongs, were Donald, Jeypore, and John Buchan in that order; and on New Years Day, in Tattersall's Cup,…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Rugby League Test Match Managers to Decide Miller Sends Cable
Reading between the lines, it appears that the English Rugby League authorities are not anxious for a fourth test match…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Prospects Bright Tirranna Picnic Races Goulburn
The setting for the annual picnic races at Tirranna is in excellent order, and the arrangements are well in hand. The course now looks a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Hobart's Good Racing Bon Aire's Cup Record Tote Figures
Typically Summer weather prevailed for racing in Tasmania on New Year's Day. At Brighton the gate was £253, and Totalisator…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cricket Curiosities Keep 'Em Hitched Up (No. 55)
During a game between Stanmore Clifton and the Ramblers in 1907, a stout…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hurwood, New Queensland Bowler, Bidding for Australian XI. More New Problems Arise in Cricket Match After Match Hurwood Bowls Ably Richardson's Position: Influence of Matches in Sydney and Brisbane
(By "NOT OUT") A few weeks back, when discussing the Australian fifteen for England, it was mentioned that the big matches then to be played might bring to light a fresh player or two, notably a bowler with strong claims for selection. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ideal Cricket Teams What Left-Hand Batsmen Mean on English Tour A Cricket Commissioner Might Achieve Much for Game in Australia
Readers of the "Referee" will have noted that one has said from time to time that the ideal Australian team for England should include two high-grade left-hand batsmen and one, at least, slow-medium, high-grade, left-hand spin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cricket Must Go Home Hurwood's Rise Value of M'cabe
WHEN the young Queensland slow-medium bowler. Hurwood, routed a strong N.S.W. team in the first Shield match at Brisbane in 1927,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Amesbury's" Coursing Budget a Look Round the Kennels: Sport in England: Gossip of the Leash [?] Sportsman's Views
Mr. Walter King, of Albury, who has for many years been prominently associated with coursing in all its departments, writes interestingly of a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Newcastle Racing Curious Operations of the Fielders Bosmina and Beware in Thrilling Duel
The New Year meeting of the Newcastle Jockey Club, which was favored with delightful, breeze-tempered weather on both days, was brought to a moderately successful conclusion on Saturday. On New Year's Day, the attendance was satisfactory; that on Saturday was disappointing, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →League Football. Opinions on the Test. Australians' "Moral Victory." London, Jan. 6
The Australian Press Association's representative at likley states that the Northern newspapers are virtually unanimous in saying that the Australians won a moral victory…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Country Tennis Carnival Commences at the N.s.w. Association's Courts, Rushcutter Bay
MISS L. HICKSON, Singleton. MISS M. CARBERRY, Cootamundra…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Bowls Carnival Poor Response From Mainland A.B.C. Should Apply Closure Notes From Here and There
The Australian bowling carnival has attracted 131 singles aspirants and about 30 odd rinks from Victoria, about a dozen singles and four rinks from New South Wales, and Tasmania is thrown upon its own resources for the balance…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Rugby League Honors Rest Even Wonderful Scoreless Final 34,709 Crowd Pays £4719 to See Breathless Struggle : Did Busch Score?
Australia, O : England, O. A crowd of 34,700, who paid £4719—both records for an International Rugby League game in England. That was the setting and the result of the third Test, England v. Australia, on the Swinton ground, just outside Manchester, on Saturday. It was the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Breeding Side of Racing Prolonged Periods of Gestation Many Extraordinary Cases Recorded :: Experiences at Trakehnen Stud
A Queensland correspondent wrote recently, stating that a mare of his had carried her foal for a day or so more than 12 months. He asked if this was a rare case, and also for information bearing on the causes of this departure from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rain Benefits S.A. Racing Totalisator Figures Improve at the Breaking of the Drought Port Adelaide Shows Profit
For two years there has been a steady decline in the Totalisator investments in all parts of South Australia, and various causes were attributed, the absence of bookmakers and broadcasting being prominent among them. But it is noticeable that immediately a brighter outlook was presented in the…
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