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  2. CRICKETER LOWRY'S MARRIAGE

    A TWO-TIERED wedding cake, surmounted with a silver replica of the great Bobr[?]ff. That was the delightfully refreshing decoration at the head of the table after the wedding in Hawkes Bay a few days ago of cricket ...

    Article : 348 words
  3. Dressing Room Echoes

    MANY HAPPY RETURNS on:— June 23: Q. McMillan (South African cricket) June 24: Jack Dempsey (ex-champion heavyweight boxer of the world) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 391 words
  4. SKIPPERS OF THE BLUES

    RUGBY LEAGUE selectors in Sydney have been doing their work this season with neat discretion and some decision. But why, oh why, did they change their generals in the Sydney games with Queensland? True, the games ...

    Article : 247 words
  5. DISLOCATED AGAIN

    SID MALCOLM'S injury in South Africa is a recurrence of an old trouble. On the Waratah tour, Malcolm was the third half-back of the ...

    Article : 758 words
  6. WHEN WATER AND OIL MIX

    LEAGUE and Union Rugby may be hostile codes, but the greatest harmony exists between the secretaries of these bodies. "Horrie" Miller and "Jeff" ...

    Article : 423 words
  7. Springbok Billiards Giant

    ALLEN PRIOR, the South African billiards champion, in the Empire tournament in London, is 6ft, 4in. in height and has such a long reach that he seldom uses the rest. He must be the tallest billiards player ever (says ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. Achieves Life Ambition

    IN winning the Snooker Amateur Championship of South Australia, Frank Stevens achieved an ambition for which he has striven for many years. Five times in succession he has been runner-up in these contests, but in ...

    Article : 257 words
  9. "The Stern Parent"

    THE "Sunday Graphic" (London), condemning the "body-line ballyhoo," adds: "A stern parent's lecture to an erring child could never have been done better than the M.C.C.'s snubbing to the Ill-timed, badly-worded cable ...

    Article : 83 words
  10. Miserable Without a Horse

    HARRY HEELER derived much satisfaction out of the win by Lady Tolgus, at Strathalbyn (S.A.), last week, even though the stake was worth only £16. He considers it may be the forerunner of further success for the ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. Lawyer Huntsman

    PAUL TEESDALE SMITH, one of Adelaide's leading solicitors, probably buys, more corn mid chaff than anyone in his profession in Australia, for he has to keep up a very large stable to satisfy the spoiling requirements ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. "One-man Team" Fallacy

    WHENEVER a team builds up a systent of scoring in which one man is the key player, there generally comes a day when the unwisdom of such methods is proved. This has been the case with the North Adelaide ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. Fewer Opportunities

    FOR quite a number of years up to the present, football season, Jack Owens and Ken, Farmer dominated the position in Adelaide as far as goal-kicking was concerned, but circumstances have arisen to keep these famous ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. IT WILL BE A GREAT HOUR

    SIGNS are showing in the Rugby League sky that the valiant Kangaroos may have the honor of tackling England, instead of Wales, at Wembley. If this great match does come off, the King, or one of the Princes, will probably honor the occasion. We can imagine genial Harry Sunderland's ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. AN OLD DOG FOR A HARD ROAD

    WHEN the cycling thousands gathered together recently in Sydney there were many among the number who had been classed us "[?]asbeens," long before the present generation had even been thought of. That did not dampen their ardour, and when the old-timers got ...

    Article : 293 words
  16. "JOHN WILLIE" PIKE

    His name does not appear in any official capacity, but it is doubtful if, in the past 20 years, there is any private individual who has counted more with English and Australian cricket teams in Australia than J. W. Pike, Australian head of Bourjois. ...

    Article : 255 words
  17. WORLD SPORT TOPICS

    For two years a man has lived free in England in 26 hospitals by adopting the following tactics: He is found lying outside with the face and chest ...

    Article : 1,168 words
  18. Game In Gulf Country

    IF you want your game big, go to the Gulf Country, advises Don Harkness, one-time motor speedster and designer-builder of the "Stewart Enterprise." He has just returned to Sydney from a prospecting trip, and he ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. Wallabies' Luck Awry

    UNLESS things change, the Wallabies in South Africa are bent on building up a reputation for misfortune. Bill Cerutti, their finest all-round forward, sustained an injury, apparently to the back, that has kept him out of ...

    Article : 180 words
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