Turf Facts I & Fancies Too Much Racing. Three Days Last Week
ALTHOUGH we are going through a time of fairly acute depression the racing game is being played a little too much. No one could object to reasonable…
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Pigeon Homing Evolution of the Racing Pigeon Active Fanciers Are Best Breeders
CONSCIOUSLY or unconsciously, the breeder moulds the object of his fancy to the particular form he favors, or develops characteristics that appeal…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Football in Place of Bullfights. Huge Crowds at Games in Spain
Football has become so popular in Spain that some people believe the end of bullfights is already in sight. It is not unusual to see a crowd of 60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AH Ready for 'Wizard' Smith's Dash A New Style in Tennis Skirts
"WIZARD" SMITH'S attempt on the world's land speed record soon to be made. Top picture: Taking the car through the dunes to Ninety-mile Beach. Inset: "Wizard" Smith. In oval: Electric mechanism operated…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Has Improved with Racing British Peer May Score To-day Vic. Pk. Handicap
FROM the manner in which he hung on to run a close third to Kite Hawk and Ooaloo over a mile and a quarter at his last start, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World of Sport Cricket Dame Fortune has a Jest with Woodfull
WM. WOODFULL must have had a smile to himself on New Year's Eve. A few days previously he had won the toss against New South Wales and sent them in to bat. The earlier…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →A Review of SPORT Bradman Has Most Uncanny Cricket Sense Ever Known
DON BRADMAN'S superiority to every other batsman, past and present, is based on the most uncanny cricketing sense, or brain, one has over known. An amazing thing is that it existed while he was still a boy. Born in him he has cultivated the sense to a decree that is as amazing as the results he has…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Has Crawford the Will to Win? Ex-Champion Tennis Player Says He Has Not
TENNIS opinion in Sydney is that Australia should be represented in the next Davis Cup contests. Views as to the number of players vary. But it is generally belived that if there…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Woman's Place in Sport English Controversy Over Tennis Stars— Tilden's Experiment LONDON, November 5
CAN a woman hold her own with a man in such games as tennis, cricket, and golf? This question has recently been exercising the pens of the sports critics, and though no unanimity has been reached, it is generally agreed that women and men approach closer to equality in golf than in any other game. R. Endersby Howard, who is the golf correspondent of the "Daily Mail,"…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Punters Roast Books in Brisbane Winning Favorites Plentiful at Holiday Meetings Tolgus Wins Three Races
IN spite of the howl about inconsistent racing in Brisbane lately, so many favorites rolled home at the Christmas meetings that there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When Captain Bill Stopped to Play a Dog-racing Incident of the Stirring Days of the Golden West
IT was the peak of the goldfields boom at Kalgoorlie and Boulder. Footracing and whippets, almost every night by electric light. Champion runners from every State and abroad; imported whippets; and top-class boxers, were to be seen doing theirs—before thousands of miners with pockets filled with real money…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Test and Interstate Cricket Scores and Club Notes Everywhere Good Scoring in Other States Farquhar's Century
VETERAN Jack Farquhar, with a breezy 130 for Eastern Suburbs against Wests, was the only three-figure batsman in Brisbane grade…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Pilot's Notebook Greenline Was Star Performer at Randwick But His Rider Did Not Believe He Could Win Spearman Improved with Racing
THE seven-year-old gelding, Greenline, was the star of summer racing at Randwick, and it was again brought home to us that, where a good horse is concerned, it is unwise to allege a handicapper has treated it harshly. The opinion was general that Greenline had gone downhill, and when, after his second…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stawell Prepares For Big Annual Athletic Meet
THAT energetic body, the Stawell Athletic Club, is already preparing for its 55th annual carnival on March 26 and 28, a fact conveyed by a vivid…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →"Argus" Athletic Budget Successful Highland Gathering
FLAVORED with tine and warm weather, the 64th annual Catherine of the Highland Society of N.S.W. was a very successful function at the R.A.S. Show…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Round and Ancient Game in Review Existing Rules of Golf Need Immediate Revision Only Mighty Intellects Could Master Existent Arbitrary and Ambiguous Laws Veteran Players Often Stumped
WHEN doctors differ who shall decide? Questions are constantly cropping up on the golf links which not one golfer in a hundred, even though they may be fairly familiar with the rules, can definitely answer. Young players are advised to "learn the rules," but you might just as well expect the average citizen to pass an examination in law, or to qualify for the higher mathematics, as expect him to thoroughly ma ster the Rules of Golf. Often these rules are arbitrary,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Queensland Sprinter Booked for Fresh Field Brisbane Mare to Leave for Melbourne Lady Linden Won Six Races on End at Eagle Farm Preparing for Newmarket
LADY LINDEN, most spectacular of Queensland's sprinters during the last year, is booked to leave Brisbane for Melbourne by the "Orungal" next Saturday. She is to undergo a preparation for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bold Bid Reflected The Scobie Skill in His "First-up" Win New Year's Day Racing at Flemington Bold Bid Credits His Owner With a Third Standish Brilliant Burst of Speed
IT is nothing new for C. B. Kellow to win the Standish Handicap, for, on two successive years, Blue Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Regatta at Vaucluse
The third annual Vaucluse regatta is set down for Saturday, January 16. Record entries have been received for the sailing events, 50 for 12ft. skiffs open event, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Swimming. Women's Championships
Heats of the New South Wales Women's [?] Swimming Association's championsips will be decided at Coogee Aquarium Baths to-night at 7.3[?]…
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