Marathon Bowls
CYCLING is not the only sport which can last a week. Bond! Bowling Club staged a marathon fours event in its Christmas…
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Associate Golf
TODAY the English Ladles' Golf Union, with its subsidiary committees distributed throughout the Dominions of the British Empire, sets out on a new year of activity. In Australia the "old year" has been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Looking Over Racing
So New Zealand racing is to be the medium of a comprehensive Government inquiry. I suppose now there will arise an agitation in N.S.W. for a similar move, but disregarding the fact that Racing Commissions are usually abortive and produce merely the washing of much dirty linen, the conduct…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manly Tennis Juniors Shine
Juniors again did well at the Seaside lawn tennis tournament, which was continued at Manly yesterday. Manly players, R. Barnes, aged 15,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Speedway Races Are Abandoned
Rain caused officials to abandon the speedway meeting which was to have been held at the Sports Ground last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lakes Golf Club Celebrates at Dance
THERE were several hundred members and their friends at the annual New Year's Eve dance, held last night at the Lakes Golf Club,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Husbands First, Tennis Second BATHURST
Because they did not want to leave their husbands, married women selected to represent Bathurst in the Country Tennis…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dinner Dance At Royal Sydney Golf Club
THE coming of the New Year was celebrated at the Royal Sydney Golf Club, Rose Bay, with a dinner dance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To the Races with Captain Jay
That great dust heap called history has the 1938 racing season in its keeping and it will not rank higher. "Poor, damn poor," murmured a clerical punter sadly when scanning the field in the Denman Handicap yesterday, and his remark can be applied to racing during the year which expired at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wickets to Dixon in Shield Cricket
Play in the Sheffield Shield match yesterday at Sydney Cricket Ground. LEFT: PEPPER (N.S.W.) bowled by DIXON. RIGHT: EASTON plays a bail from Dixon into his wicket…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mighty Hitting Poidevin-Gray Cricket Men Waited In Adjoining Park When James Scored Sixes
When Don James batted for Waverley in Poidevin-Gray cricket yesterdays his team mates went to the adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Happy Holidays For Children In City Areas Melbourne Letter Farewell To The Old Year: Tennis At Camperdown MELBOURNE
WHAT a contrast with Christmas Eve Here we are on New Year's Eve with sounds, of revelry from fifth floors and basements, from beaches, balconies and ballrooms. From middle-aged men 'and diminutive Scottish immigrants staging…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Board Of Control, A Letter, And Empire Cricket Ties Game in Canada Strange Sequel Follows Ban On Waddy's Tour Proposal
The Australian Cricket Board of Control does not favor tours by private teams. It told Mr. E. L. Waddy that when he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cape Hawke Regatta
The Cape Hawke annual regatta was held on [?]urday, when 14 sailing boats from Sydney. George's River. Port Stephens, Lake Macquarlel, and Taree competed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →With Wep at Races
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tennis Exhibitions at National Park
About 500 watched a series of tennis exhibition matches yesterday at newly-opened courts at Audley, National Park. Among the players were A. Huxley F…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bright Colors for Holiday Races
BRIGHT colors predominated in the dressing for Tattersall's meeting at Randwick to-day. All shades of cyclamen were popular for both make-up and frocks and many ensembles grouped pastel cyclamen with a pale jacaranda blue…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Surprises In State Tennis Team
There are no surprises in the list of players to represent New South Wales officially in the Australian tennis championships…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Football in Domain. Italians and Germans. Unusual Costumes
At a time yesterday when the habitues of the Sydney Domain, wilting under the sun's heat, and tiring of speeches, were seeking the shade of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Private Tours. Cricket Board's Ban. "Canada Wants Team."
The decision of the Australian Board of Control refusing an application by Mr. E. L Waddy, the former N.S.W. representative cricketer, to take a…
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