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    ALL BLACK half-back and captain F. D. Kilby has plenty of experience behind him to stand in good stead in the games against the R.U. elect of Australia in the next few weeks. He made the South African trip with ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 131 words
  3. DRESSING ROOM ECHOES

    MANY HAPPY RETURNS on: June 21: Jack Dempacy (world's ex-champion boxer); F. R. Caughey (California, U.S.A., A.A. team in Australia. 26: "Digger" Evans (A.I.F. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 395 words
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    VICTORIA regards Canon E. S. Hughes as evidence of the fact that Christianity can he muscular—and still be Christian. Thirty years ago, the canon was just as lusty a smiter with the bat against the bowling of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 111 words
  5. INVESTED HALF A CROWN

    TOM McKAY. "Kadina" studmaster, who received such a fine advertisement the other day when three of his Amalfis filled the positions in the ...

    Article : 139 words
  6. KICKING FOR GOALS

    WITHIN the first five minutes of the St. George-Northern Suburbs Rugby Union first grade fixture at Hurstville three penalty kicks were ...

    Article : 166 words
  7. "JERRY" BAILEY, FOOTBALLER

    ACKNOWLEDGED as the man who had most to do with establishing Rugby League in Newcastle (N.S.W.). Mr. W. M. ("Jerry") Bailey is still a keen supporter of the code, but he now devotes most time to the South Newcastle ...

    Article : 134 words
  8. YORKSHIRE ECLIPSES YORKSHIRE

    THE moment the sun peeps cut from the mist and clouds in England and wickets get the whiff of drying breeze, batsmen make their bats chirp like birds emerging from the tree-shelters after rain. Thus Herbert Sutellffe, with ...

    Article : 204 words
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    It is said that the English R.L. footballers are kicking against the diet ordered by the managers. Here are Jim Russell's suspicions of what is going on "under the lap." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  10. Housed Many Champions

    SOUTH MELBOURNE Football, Cricket, and Bowling Club has housed many fine men in its time, like its bigger brother, the famous M.C.C. Peter Burns, "Sonny" Elms, Ted Slatter, Harvey Kelly, Harry Lampe, all were ...

    Article : 145 words
  11. Limbless Soldier

    OUTSIDE the Sydney General Post Office a returned soldier piles his calling in a sheltered kiosk. He was a Lismore (Northern Rivers, N.S.W.) boy when the war broke out, and just old enough to decide for himself. ...

    Article : 103 words
  12. Lucky Tote Official

    OPERATORS working totalisator machines must keep their wits about them. Adelaide has had numerous instances of the men behind the apertures being sadder but wiser men at the end of a day's work, for any ...

    Article : 134 words
  13. McConochy Got His Ration

    NEW ZEALAND has not been famous for its production of champion billiardists, but one did make his appearance, in the person of Clark McConochy, of Timaru. Tiring of attempts, by correspondence, at arranging a match with ...

    Article : 143 words
  14. An Exuberant Coach

    "BOB" WILLIAMS, the old Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) R.L. forward, received many congratulations when Brisbane administered first defeat to the Englishmen. A year or two back the veteran was dejected over the chasm ...

    Article : 112 words
  15. Not a Seagull

    SIR ROBERT MAC ANDERSON, who was knighted for distinguished war services, is a member of the Sydney City Bowling Club, and loves a good story. He tells of a friend who walked one summer evening along South ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. Rumor-tisms

    WHEN they do anything at Rose Bay they do it in style. And so, last Saturday, for the first and second rounds of the State Golf Championship, ...

    Article : 974 words
  17. Rugger Stalwart

    RIVERINA has lost a good and popular sportsman through the death at Albury of Mr. Frederick J. Belbridge at the age of 64 years. A man of fine physique, he was in his younger days a noted Rugby Union footballer ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. Bill Beach, Speed Hog

    EX-CHAMPION sculler, "Bill" Beach, was speedy enough on the water in his day, but speed on the land is anathema to him. Aged 81, he drives his own motor car, and the other day was taking his two grandchildren for a ...

    Article : 80 words
  19. Aldermanic Don Moon

    ROSEHILLL trainer, Wm. Booth, has a curious pair in his stable: Fuji San and Don Moon, winners of the Doncaster Handicaps of 1925 and 1927. Fuji San is just about to turn 11 years, and Don Moon 10. Despite age and ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. Aptly Named Colt

    MR. F. J. SMITH, well-known Sydney accountant, who races as Mr. "Constable," went back to war days for a name to attach to his two-year-old by Heroic from Winter. What was more Heroic than the Dover Patrol that ...

    Article : 102 words
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