Saturday's race was the twelfth Marathon in Australia—the first took place in 1909—the fifth in N.S.W., and the first to carry the title of an Australian championship. Of the 30 entrants, 20 started, and 14 were timed in at the finish. The outstanding feature was that, after ...
Article : 1,937 wordsThe winner is R. F. McMurdo (number 4 in the centre of the field, with Q on his breast), of the Rocklea Harriers, Brisbane ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 1,913 wordsL. W. Hayes, of Richmond, is still amateur billiards champion of Australia. He defeated R. E. Zeigler (Queensland) with ease in the ...
Article : 1,305 wordsA young policeman, C. E. Armstrong, of Emerald, won the King's Prize at the Grand Jubilee, prize meeting of the Southern Queensland Rifle Association, at Enoggera range last week. In March last year he joined the Emerald Club, and has now leaped right into the front rank ...
Article : 1,104 wordswinner of the Australian Marathon, the only representative of his Stale who figured in the big Sydney race ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsNEW Victorian champion 10 miles' walker, Ray Osborne, is some stepper. Certainly he won the title last Saturday by only 27 seconds, but how did he do it? He went ...
Article : 271 wordsThe famous Chelsea Soccer Club has its home ground at Stamford Bridge, where the English amateur athletic championships are carried out each year, and ...
Article : 202 wordsFULL particulars of the American track field championships at Lincoln, Nebraska, have reached me, and I notice many fine performances including one individual world ...
Article : 278 wordsFor next Saturday's 50 miles road walking championship, under the auspices of the N.S.W. Walking and F.G. Club, the entrants are : J. Lewis (Vic. holder), R. F. McMurdo ...
Article : 308 wordsFollowing Auckland's example, the Otago amateur athletic championships may be held early in November (writes the "Referee" correspondent), as it is desired to have the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe circulation of the "Sunday Times" is increasing rapidly each week, because its readers enjoy the exclusive articles that become the topic of all town talk on Mondays. The "Sunday Times" publishes the latest news—both Australian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsLAST week I gave details of the first of the Queensland senior track and field championships from the pen of a well-informed correspondent, and this ...
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Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), Wed 31 Aug 1927, Page 15
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