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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →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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The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 16
Attendance Question And Dearth Of Probable Champions Are Problems For-- A NOTHER year has passed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →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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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,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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