Gene Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey tonight on points for the heavyweight boxing championship of the world in a 10-round contest. Dempsey used whirlwind tactics, but the storm was ...
Article : 898 wordsTwo games remain to complete, the league football programme for the year, the winners of the North-Norwood encounter playing Sturt in ...
Article : 716 wordsFresh heart has been given to agriculturists and pastoralists by soaking rains which fell last night over many parts of the State. ...
Article : 529 wordsMr. J. A. Rinder was chiarman at the Rotary Club luncheon today. Messrs. P. A. McBride (pastoralist) and T. D. Ackland (fodder distributor) were ...
Article : 930 wordsWhile driving a motor car after straying horses at Echuca (on the Murray River, 145 miles north of Melbourne) last night, Sir. Albion it. Whitfield contractor, was ...
Article : 108 wordsIn a smash last night during a dense fog on the Paris to Marseilles Railway nine people were killed and 20 injured, including an Englishman named Blackie, ...
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Article : 94 wordsDempsey was an awful spectacle at the finish. His face was swollen twice its natural size. When the fight ended Dempsey dropped ...
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Article : 59 wordsAt the ringside the weights were:—Dempsey, 13 8: Tunney, 13 3½. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 45 wordsOnly the ancient laws of Pennsylvania regulating the length of prize fights to 10 rounds saved Jack Dempsey from the ignominy of a knockout in one of the world's ...
Article : 195 wordsA beautiful eleventh-hour rain has fallen after two days of unpleasant weather. Eighty points have been recorded. After the hot winds things looked ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsIn reply to an enquiry by Walkerville District Council the Hydraulic Engineers Department has advised that there is no authority for free water supplies for ...
Article : 32 wordsWhen making a last inspection of a flat at Hampstead for the reception of his bride Mr. Eric Chappell, 28 years of age, fell 40 ft. from a window two hours ...
Article : 117 wordsGene Tunney, the new heavyweight champion boxer of the world, is 28 years of age. He is a "made" boxer. At no time during his career has he ...
Article : 411 words"Direct and circumstantial evidence and an indirect confession all convict the prisoner," said a police inspector in the Magistrate's Court where Najim Al Fashad ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsDeparture of .the interstate steamer Dimboola, of the Melbourne Steamship Company, originally timed for noon today, has been postponed. It is expected that she ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsBefore Messrs. J. Gray and W. Usher, at Norwood Magistrates' Court this morning. Alfred Jacobs was fined £1 for having been drunk at North Kensington ...
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The News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), Fri 24 Sep 1926, Page 1
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