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Sport, 1937

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Holiday Cricket Competitions. Poidevin-gray Shield. Many Fine Performances

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 17

Bowlers generally prevailed in the first round of the season's Poidevin-Gray Shield matches, played yesterday on wickets affected by rain. C. McCarthy (Waverley) made a chanceless…

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I Hit The Englishmen To Leg Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 1

I AM just sitting here waiting for the match to start. There are 11,000,000 people…

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When the Gong Goes the Boxing Game Great & Small by Jim Donald. Miracles -- Do Happen

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 9

RONALD RICHARDS, middleweight champion of Australia by the grace of a minor miracle of the…

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New Laws Made for Cricket Prevent Damage to the Wicket Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 2

BATSMEN or bowlers who wilfully damage wickets in matches in Australia, except Tests or other international fixtures, can be given out or prohibited from bowling during the rest of an innings by a…

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Spotlight On Sport Cricket's Lure For Multitude Packing Them in at Tests

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 4

EVERY now and then there are dismal forebodings that cricket is falling from its pedestal as the leading summer sport of the…

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SPORT and SPORTSMEN Will A.J.C. Continue To Take Racing's Taxation Kicks Lying Down? This Is The Propitious Moment To Demand Relief From The Govt. A More-Than-Half Revenue Grab

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 8

VAST falling off in attendance and tote figures, and a consequent loss of revenue during Xmas racing at Randwick was a pointed reminder of the Turf's need for relief from the super-taxation under which it labors in N.S.W. N.S.W. Cabinet has pecked away at the subject from the safe vantage represented by…

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Cricket

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 2

Now what's all this excitement About what they call Tests? I hear they're to do with cricket-- To me they just seem jests…

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As Sociate Golf

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 2

THE New Year has a great deal to offer associates who feel inclined to take advantage cf the opportunities which will face…

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Swimming Schoolboy In Senior Hundred

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 19

With many leading swimmers competing at the Cronulla surf carnival and others resting for the…

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Coursing Meeting Declared Off Queanbeyan

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 19

Queanbeyan and District Coursing Club committee to-night declared its coursing meeting off. It was decided to hold a free night next Saturday…

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W.A.'s Powerful Swimming Team

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 13

PERTH, Saturday.--The West Australian swimming toom, comprising H. Nankivelle, P. Oliver and Misses E. do Lacy and D, Green, left Perth last night by train for Sydney, where the first section of the Australian Championships will be held at North Sydney Pool, commencing on January 9. Mr…

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Racing Men In New Year

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 16

Attendance Question And Dearth Of Probable Champions Are Problems For-- A NOTHER year has passed…

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Grade Umpire Caused Cricket Stir

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 14

Action of the umpires in the first-grade match between Paddingtgon and Waverley in directing Paddington's captain, R. Gostelow, to close…

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Strengthening Our Cricket Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 14

As soon as the fate of the Ashes has been decided, we must begin to build Australian cricket anew. We must get back to essential things, the foundations upon which our house of cricket,…

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Rare Football Accident Has Parallel Here

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 11

One of the most rare football accidents, believed to have occurred only once before, and then in Sydney, is reported from…

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Looking Over Racing Criticism Of Tote Barometer

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 16

Complaints that the totalisator barometers at Randwick are not altogether accurate were heard during the four…

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Wide Effect Of New Cricket Rule

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 15

The Australian Board of Control to-day passed a stringent law which may widely affect cricket…

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Grade Cricket Only One Win in Grade

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 14

With grade games limited to one day, some interesting play was expected. It was thought the captains would…

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Pot Pourri of Racing Big Price for Promising Horse

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 2

THERE are still men in the racing game who arc prepared to pay a decent figure for a horse that has shown promising form. This was exemplified last week, when 900 guineas was paid for the grey three-year-old colt Arabia…

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Golf Lakes Are "Lush a Course For' Champs Some Identities

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 7

SET sail for the Lakes yesterday, a driver as a mast, a niblick as a keel, and, weathering a stilT westerly, anchored safely at the…

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