The sailing fixtures on the Brisbane River on Saturday afternoon, in the majority of cases, comprised test events, and the record number of competitors in each of the three classes—18-footers, 16ft. skiffs, and 12ft. skiffs—exemplified the keen desire by local ...
Article : 133 wordsThe giant Italian boxer, Primo Carnero, met Young Stribling to-night Ior the second time. The Italian was disqualified at the end of the seventh ...
Article : 921 wordsThe weather was distinctly on the warm side on Saturday, but had no effect upon the attendance of competitors on all metropolitan links. The coup brought off by ...
Article : 1,453 wordsOn Saturday Walter Lindrum achieved a feat unparalleled in the history of billiards by making a break of 3263 in his match against Willie ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 992 wordsThe feature of the 12ft skiff test race for representation in the Australian Championship, held on Saturday, was the thrilling duel between the two champions, ...
Article : 725 wordsA medium north-east wind veering to n,-n.[?]., and freshening at times, with the water fairly smooth from the last of the flood tide to early ebb tide, ...
Article : 410 wordsPat Redmond (17.4), a young Irish giant, was knocked out in the fourth round of a stirring encounter with Fred Young (14.1), the English heavyweight, at the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe 12ft. Skiff Club has decided [?]wo of its three tests for the honour of Queensland representation in the interState competitions in January, and the ...
Article : 96 wordsVictor II., sailed by V. Lucas, won the first heat of the Waterloo Bay Skiff Club's championship sailed at Waterloo Bay, yesterday afternoon. This event, ...
Article : 733 wordsIntense enthusiasm was manifested in the 18-Footer Sailing Club's race on Saturday.It was the second heat of the club championship, the second heat of the test ...
Article : 511 wordsGrime (Australia) defeated Leckie (Napier) on points in a 15-round boxing contest at Napier, before a record attendance. Grime's infighting won the contest ...
Article : 37 wordsNorman Gillespie (9.4½), or Victoria, the lightweight champion of Australia, had, a hard fight to retain his title against Jack Roberts (9.7½), of Newcastle, at the ...
Article : 97 wordsAlthough Ivy came home comfortably ahead of the opposition in the 10ft. sharples' race on the Hamilton Reach on Saturday, she was not equal to winning ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 722 wordsSpurwing II., under the control of Roy Wilson, made a creditable display in the Inter-club contest between the Wynnum and Manly Club and the Sandgate Yacht ...
Article : 812 wordsMelborne Inman, writing in the "Evening Standard," eulogises Walter Lindrum. "He has no rival," states the article. "If perfection is possible, he is ...
Article : 163 wordsAn excellent entry was made at Wynnum on Saturday for an impromptu Bogey Handicap.D. Woosley, a son of the wellknown Major, was the winner, with a ...
Article : 175 wordsW.F. Gardiner Was in receipt of 8 strokes on Saturday in the handicap against the par of the course, the latter being known in contradistinction to ...
Article : 339 wordsIn order to select seven boats to contest the Australian championship the Queensland 16ft. Skiffs' Association held the first of a series of three test races ...
Article : 598 wordsThe 11 competing boats in the race conducted by the Hamilton Unrestricted Yacht Club on Saturday afternoon got away to a good start the back-markers ...
Article : 240 wordsAbordare and Thara along with Edie on the wind, provided one of the keen est contests seen for some time in the Brisbane 16-Foot Skiff Club scratch ...
Article : 868 wordsA detailed account of the four-ball match played between M.T. Stafford and H. Sloan (B.G.C.) against A. Gazzard (Sandgate), and W. Southcompe ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Morning Post," in an editorial article, remarks: "There is no doubt that Lindrum is the finest player the world has ever seen. We used to think that ...
Article : 51 wordsDlegel retained the Professional Golfers' Association national championship to-day, defeating Farrell by six up and four to play. Farrell, alter a game start, slipped ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the close of to-day's session in the match between Clark M'Conachy (New Zealand) and Tom Newman (England) the scores were:- ...
Article : 116 wordsA light east-north-east breeze, variable at times, in both strength and direction, did not favour yachting on Saturday. In the race for the Rawhiti Cup, Utlekah ...
Article : 160 wordsE. Munro (6) won the "Bisque Bogey" handicap staged by the Royal Queensland Club on Saturday. He won the 3rd and 12th in 3 each.Clarke Williams won the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsJim Ferrier, the 14-year-old son, of the secretary of the Manly Golf Club, won the Manly Club's Summer Cup, after a close contest with G. Thompson, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe results of the afternoon's competitions at Oxley were:—First men's approaching and putting: Mr. P. R. T. Wills. First ladles' driving: Miss Doris ...
Article : 74 wordsThe third round in Tattersall's Club annual snooker tourney will be commenced to-night, the games being:—T. Dunn (on 15) v. M. Geary (on 35); F.Morris ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 9 Dec 1929, Page 9
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