Scenes at the 68th Annual Highland Gathering—sheffield Shield Cricket
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 10
The Minister for Defence (Mr. Parkhill) taking the salute from the New South Wales Scottish Regiment at the Highland Society's gathering at the Showground yesterday. A[?] Marks (New South Wales) sweeps T. Allen to square-leg for four in the Sheffield Shield match against Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Don Bradman, Cricket Psychologist His Influence On S.A. Team
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 1
LOVERS of cricket who have been accustomed to regard Don Bradman more or less as a run-getting machine, saw him in a different role in the three games recently played in Adelaide against M.C.C., N.S.W., and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Does The Mantle Of Big Cricket Fail Heavily On Gilbert?
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 5
EDDIE Gilbert, Queensland's aboriginal fast bowler, made his re-appearance at the Cricket Ground yesterday for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Swimming Carnival Should Be Full Of Thrills Our Stars And N. Zealanders Title Contests at Manly
The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2
The first appearance of the brilliant New Zealand freestyle and backstroke swimmers, Jarvis and Mathieson, has invested the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →G.O.M. OF W.A. RACING Part Owner Of The Derby Winner
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 12
MR. F. F. B. WITTENOOM, a member of the W.A. Turf Club Committee, of which he was for some years vice-chairman, recently celebrated his…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →English Racing Statistics The Agar Khan, Butters, and Richards Lead Figures Below Last Year
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 8
THE, English Hal racing sea for 1935 concluded at ManChester on. November 23, and, as in the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Half Day of Cricket Lost Comic Efforts to Dry Wicket Capetown
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 1
A POSSIBLE half-day of cricket in the third Test was lost, partly through a heavy shower at 9.45 a.m., but mainly through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Tennis Tourneys Taking Place At ONCE Plenty Of Travelling For Sydney Players How Competitors Fared
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2
THE two Christmas Tournaments, one which is played at Pratten Park, Ashfield, and carries the County of Cumberland Championship titles, and the other at Manly, which is called at Seaside Championship, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welter Hope Maintains Record But. More of Wrestle Than Boxing Match Purcell Fights In Spasms To Beat Viez Warning to the Australian
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 17
FERNAND VIEZ, a stocky, durable little Gaul, from Gay Paree, and Jimmy Purcell, moody and at times brilliant Australian gloveman, came to grips at the Sydney Stadium on Monday night. Grips is the word, for, truth to tell, it was more of a wrestle than a boxing contest…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →What Cricket Test Figures Reveal McCabe Averages 189 With The Bat: O'Reilly Holds Bowling Honors
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 13
WITH two Test matches of the series of five already finished in South Africa, and three still to be played, public interest has been recreated, galvanised, in fact, following the substantial first match victory of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Shield Cricket Melbourne Match Was All Bradman Heading for His Third Century S.A. Is In Strong Position
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Don Bradman dominated the Sheffield Shield game between South Australia and Victoria, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ATHLETICS Max White an Appreciation and Appeal
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 12
The flag of athletics droops solemnly at half-mast for another athlete, a man, and a friend, who has passed on into the valley of shadows. Max White,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Athletic Gossip
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 14
FOR the first time in interclub athletics in Sydney the metric system of measurement is to be employed. The competition will commence at Sydney Sports…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →N.s.w. Athletic Gossip
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2
THE following have been recognised as N.S.W. records: J. B. Lobban's (Uni.) broad Jump of 24ft 6½in, Sydney Sports Ground, December 7; J. P. Metcalfe's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Athletics. Jewish Meeting. Victorians Win
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 12
The tenth annual interstate Jewish athletic championships were held at University Square yesterday. A. Penn, of New South Wales, won the 100 yards event in the excellent time of 9 4-5 seconds…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Amazing Fluctuations & Finish to Second Test Match South Africans' Appeal Unique In Test Cricket Nourse Makes S.A. Record, But Was Outshone by Stan. McCABE
Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 9
THE Johannesburg Test ranks as the most stirring and sensational ever contested in South Africa. Ten Springboks—eclipsed in the first innings—made themselves into healthy props in support of Dudley Nourse, the 25-years-old son of Dave of old. They worked the Australians into a knot, and when they had finished with the bat the Australians faced…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Broken Hill Swimming
The Labor Daily · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2
Silver City League Swimming Club, Broken Hill, will stage a series of carnivals on January 22, 25 and 27, and from 25 to 30 Sydney swimmers are to compete. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Golf Tournament
The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3
Open to all members of the Jewish Community To be played at St. Andrews, Blacktown, Sunday, February 2, 1936…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowls. the Pennants
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 13
The pennants are to be resumed to-morrow, with the third round. Interest is naturally centred on the premier club, now striving for a fifth consecutive State title…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Speedway Racing
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3
"Tiger" Stevenson, "Nobby" Key[?] Wal Phillips[?] Cliff Parkinson, Arthur Atkinson, and "Dusty" Ha[?]gh, who will pair in the order named, is England's team for the…
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