BECAUSE of changes in placings and bookmakers paying out before the weight signal was given confusion reigned in the betting ring at Ascot on Saturday after the running of the last race—the Welter Handicap. ...
Article : 636 wordsGIVING an almost flawless display, Eric Harris, former Leeds player, was the star of Saturday's B.R.L. games. Harris took his passes cleanly, and revealed great speed in dashes to the goal line, ranging from 40 to 60 yards. He ...
Article : 549 wordsTOP: Gallery watching play in the challenge match at the Indooroopilly links yesterday. ABOVE: The players, Duncan and Walker and Thomson and Anderson, on the way round. The umpire is second from the left. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsNEW YORK, April 7.—J. Ferrier, the Australian golfer, slipped in the third round of the Masters' tournament at Augusta (Georgia). and with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsHints to half-backs will be given by Norman Potter in his second article, exclusively written for The Courier-Mail. ...
Article : 378 wordsDavis Cup player Adrian Quist has agreed to make his Queensland country tournament debut in the Nambour championships over ...
Article : 268 wordsKATANGA will do most of his final gallops for the Queensland St. Leger under the watchful eye of trainer Harry Plant, who recently brought the ...
Article : 294 wordsGodfrey M surprised punters, bookmakers, and his trainer by winning the Novice Handicap at Ascot on Saturday. Some weeks ago Godfrey M. showed trainer Morgan a gallop good enough ...
Article : 491 wordsWindsor, although weakened by the absence of two of its skips, put up a good fight against New Farm in the Q.B.A pennant fixtures on Saturday. ...
Article : 182 wordsTrainer N. Ross Mill appear before the Q.T.C. committee on Friday. On Saturday at Ascot Ross ...
Article : 65 wordsWarehouse association will commence its fixtures on April 13. Singles will be played in the pennant grade men's competition. Another change is the ...
Article : 65 wordsIn her last and most brilliant innings of the women's cricket season on Saturday, Kath Smith, with 222 not out, broke the Queensland record for ...
Article : 177 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Extensions to the official stand will be the next improvement to be carried out at the Canterbury Park track which was ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Frank Wootton, rated as one of the world's leading jockeys, died suddenly in Sydney yesterday. ...
Article : 194 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Dave Brown, Eastern Suburbs centre, and record points scorer with the 1937-38 Kangaroos, was injured in a trial match ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Mitchell Vigoro cup was won by the Brisbane team on Saturday, when it defeated West Moreton. J. Flori (Brisbane) had highest score, 17, and ...
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Advertising : 9 wordsG. THOMSON, Brisbane club champion, and E. W. Anderson, State professional champion, defeated R. Duncan, Indooroopilly champion, and O. Walker, Indooroopilly professional, 1 up, in an exhibition four-ball for the golfers' war effort at Indooroopilly yesterday. ...
Article : 290 wordsFast Company, Sans Pareil and Assegai arrived back in Brisbane on Saturday. They were accompanied by High Rank, recently purchased by Mr. ...
Article : 47 wordsAlan Wilson, who regularly skippers the bay cruiser Viking and has won many R.Q.Y.C. trophies in the open class showed the way to a dozen other ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, April 7.—Kingsley Rennerley has won the amateur billiards championship for the fourth successive year. ...
Article : 45 wordsW. Lyons, a prominent New South Wales 16ft. skiff skipper and racing boat builder, who was killed in a car accident in Sydney on Saturday, will ...
Article : 107 wordsINNISFAIL, Saturday.—Because it is considered that it would be unprofitable to conduct boxing tournaments in June, the Far Northern Amateur ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, April 6.—The Liverpool Spring Cup, which was run to-day, resulted: Black Speck (8 to 1 against). 1; Heavy Weight, 2; Lover's Fate, 3. ...
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Article : 6 wordsLast years hockey premiers and runners-up—Valley and Y.M.C.A. respectively—began the season with good wins on Saturday. Valley defeated ...
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