THE International Lawn Tennis Committee appointed to revise the definition of an amateur has produced a report on this ever troublesome and contentious matter in international sport, that, however true to fact it may be within certain territorial limits, heaps coals of fire upon the international controllers themselves, and the associations they represent. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 989 wordsWHEN the names of the Australian Sixteen were cabled to England, the critics on every side gave their views of its strength and weaknesses. None was more interesting or better-balanced than "Cricketer" (Mr. Nevill Cardus) in the "Manchester Guardian." His views are ...
Article : 1,006 wordsTHE matter of amateurism v. professionalism in sport is always a topic of considerable academic interest, apart from the practical line of demarcation that may be drawn by bodies entrusted with international powers in this direction. In ...
Article : 707 wordsJACK HOBBS has evidently adopted journalism as his second profession. On his tour in India with the English team he sent cables to the "Daily Standard." In one of these he stated that Amar Singh "must have the strength of a horse. He can hit powerfully, and he ...
Article : 185 wordsWE are living in a very wonderful era. Science conlin[?] to solve tilings that were inscrutable through thousands of years. Men are unlocking the secrets of nature, and the more they unlock the more marvellous and yet simple seems the work of the Creator. VERILY everything on earth has ...
Article : 681 words"OLD-TIMER" writes from Wellington, N.S.W., on a mailer ventilated in these columns last week. He introduces the names of many of the finest Rugby footballers in this country in the 'eighties and 'nineties who hailed from the western centres, with their hubs at Bathurst and ...
Article : 637 wordsSIR STANLEY JACKSON", presiding over the annual meeting of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club at Sheffield early last month, said that when he ...
Article : 205 wordsIT is understood that the Auckland Cricket Association is negotiating with Walter Hammond to coach next summer. If the A.C.A. be successful, it will give ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON "Daily Mail" (15/2/34) gives Walter Lindrum, the world's wizard in billiards, the credit of having defied the billiards Solons in London, and, in doing so, of having come through successfully with it. In its comments the London daily chides the London authorities, but it ...
Article : 574 wordsRE the article in this week's issue entitled "Nothing Like Old Timers." I heard Bill Woodfull's speech, and I am afraid he harps on that subject too much. ...
Article : 486 wordsFOLLOWING the invitation received by Miss Cox, secretary of the Women's Cricket Association of England, a team of sixteen women players ...
Article : 235 wordsTHE Orient Line will include New Zealand in their summer cruises. Hitherto the Australian mall companies have not called at New Zealand ports. ...
Article : 109 wordsTHE fiftieth annual report and balance-sheet of the Auckland Rugby Union is a very fine production. Auckland, despite League rivalry, keeps up its end finely. ...
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Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), Thu 22 Mar 1934, Page 13
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