Rugby League Vic Hey and Dave Brown Available for Australia!
IN severely criticising the banning agreement between England and Australia by which English clubs are prevented from exploiting…
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The Glove Parade An Editorial Review of World Boxing
HOPE springs eternal, etc. But Mr. C. E. Shearer, of the up and coming township of Pallamallawa, is very, polite about it. He writes:—…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →High Again For Open Class Races
High, who successfully carried 11.1 in the Jumpers' Plat Race at Ascot yesterday, will now be given another trial in open company…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →What Happens When a Golf Ball Is Struck?
A golf ball seems very hard and inelastic to the touch, but, as a matter of fact, like a billiard ball, it is quite clastic. When it is struck by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cricket— How She Should Be Played
LACK of color in most of the cricketers of New South Wales and Queensland made the Sheffield Shield match in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Southern Districts Cricket Association. Selected Teams
Hammondville C grade team to meet Townview, at St. John's Park, at 2.15 p.m.:—M. Hoy (captain). B. Worth. J. Gaffney, N. Tarplee, B. Tarplee, W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hibernian Cricket. Queensland Retains Interstate Shield
The fourth triangular contest between New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland has concluded, and Queensland, the holders, retained it by victories over both…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Speedway Racing. Australian Test Team. Young Riders Chosen
The honorary secretary of the Australian Speedsway Control Board, Mr. Ray White yesterday announced that the team to represent Australia in the first motor-cycle speedsway…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Money Goes Back Into Racing LONDON, January 4
Compared With £150,000 in 1937, the Racecourse Betting Control Board is putting £175,000 of the totalisator…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Speedway Racing New Men In Test Line-up
Several newcomers to Test racing have been included in the Australian speedway team to meet England in the first Test at the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →After Surf on Sunlit Sands, Brisbane Men Turn to Boxing
THE roar of the surf on sunlit sands has provided a bigger attraction for Brisbane sporting men during the past few days than the yells of a stadium boxing crowd could have done…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Successive Wins. High in Jumpers' Flat Races
High, who won the Jumpers' Flat race at Kensington on December 27, followed that performance with a win in the Jumpers' Flat race at Ascot yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Safety First on the Golf Course Murder or Suicide?
The soundness of the principle "Safety First" has lately received (writes London "Times" golf corres pondent) golfing confirmation in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Seedings in Tennis Problems For Title Matches MELBOURNE
After Bromwich and Quist, the positions in the seeded eight for the Australian tennis championships at Kooyong from January 18 to 30 may…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The Boxing Game As It Strikes Me Lesnevich Should Fix "Alabama Kid"
THE "ALABAMA KID" and Gus Lesnevich have been matched by Olympia Sports Ltd. to fight at Sydney Sports Ground on Thursday, 12th January…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →They'ae Racing What Grand Flaneur Did On The Turf
FOR the special benefit of a Melbourne correspondent (N.M., St. Kilda), and it should interest many others who are not in possession of the facts, Grand Flaneur was one of Australia's unbeaten racehorses, but he didn't continue beyond three years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Racing Details by Telegram. Appeal for Ban. Wires From Courses
In an effort to prevent the despatch of racing information from racecourses, the State Government will ask the Postmaster-General not to handle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tennis Fairfield and District [?] Court Association. Summer Competition. a Reserve
Crenbrook 2 v Orana (played [?] 17).-W. Young and S. [?] D. Miller and [?] and Mrs. Teege v L. Bax[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Country Week Tennis Championships Junior Interstate Matches. Miss Olive Stebbing's Win
The annual country week tennis tournament will begin at the Lawn Tennis Ground,. Rushcutter Bay, on Monday. One hundred and four teams have entered for the teams' premiership. The individual championships which follow from January 16 until January 21 should provide…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →N.S.W. Provincial Racing "Battler's" Hurdle Huge Costs For Small Prize
WHEN one analyses the biggest hurdle a "battling" trainer has to negotiate —running expenses— it's a…
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