“BILL” BARWICK, the Tasmanian .champion distance runner, provided one of the biggest athletic sensations seen for years by winning the mile at the National Games in record time of 4min. 16 4-5sec. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 671 wordsAFTER 22 years, the Essendon Harriers have produced a brilliant half-mile runner in Thorold N. Irwin, winner of the 880yds. championship at the National Games on Monday in 1min. 55½sec. (on Australian record), to follow in the footsteps of G. A. Wheatley. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 473 wordsTHAT the victor of today is often the vanquished of tomorrow was strikingly shown in the second Australian National Games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday and Monday. Seven Australian national champions were defeated. They were: F. O’Brien (N.S.W.), 440yds.; Alf Watson (Vic.). 120 yds. hurdles: A.J. Hillhouse (Vic.) one mile run; Fred Woodhouse (Vic.). ...
Article : 131 wordsSATURDAY was full of surprises at the Australian National Games. Fred Woodhouse, Victorian and Australian pole vault champion, was one of the five ...
Article : 205 wordsONLOOKERS received a mild surprise at the fine and easy exhibition of running by Teddy Hampson. who has proved himself to be a worthy successor ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 339 wordsONE of the, finest spectacles seen in Melbourne for years was the march past in the National Games On the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. ...
Article : 244 wordsREGARDED as the greatest long, distance runner Australia has produced. Alex Hillhouse (Vic.) further justified himself by winning the three miles ...
Article : 186 wordsREGARDED two weeks ago as one of the certainties for the Australian Olympic team, Geo. Golding, the 440 yds. record holder, has more or less ...
Article : 184 wordsON Monday the selectors, of the Australian team will submit their report to the Australian Olympic Federation, which will ...
Article : 77 wordsF. J. RALPH won the South Australian 100 yards professional championship at Pa[?]neham Oval on Thursday night finishing two yards in front of M. J. ...
Article : 270 wordsBOTH the Latrobe and Burnie Athletic Clubs came out well on the right side of the ledger in connection with their recent holiday carnivals. ...
Article : 642 wordsFINE sportsmanship was displayed during the National Games by G. E. S. Gordon. English high jump champion in 1930 and runner-up in the British ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 185 wordsIn warm weather, a record crowd attended the motor-cycle road races on Phillip Island on Monday. Stewart Williams (New South Wales). ...
Article : 354 wordsTWO of the first to congratulate “Bill” Barwick, the Tasmanian distance runner, after he had won the one mile championship at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsConditions were very unpleasant for the riders in the Olympic road test from Campbellfield, held in conjunction with the National Games on Monday afternoon. ...
Article : 230 wordsA SPEED track for car racing in Perth is on the cards. A local company proposes to build the very latest tor those who speed, and the site is to be ...
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Advertising : 183 wordsWHEN Alf. Watson, the champion hurdler, flashed past the post the winner of 440 yards hurdles championship in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 words“DON was just too good for me. I have no excuses to make over my defeat,” said Alf Watson, the Australian 120 yards hurdles champion, on Saturday after Don McLardy, the Victorian champion, had scored a 14 yards victory over Watson and E. J. Baker (N.S.W.) ...
Article : 192 wordsMiss. Eileen. Wearne (N.S.W.). the Australian champion women sprint runner,, who dead heated with her colleague, Miss Chris[?]le. Dahm, in the ...
Article : 75 wordsGEORGE MARQUES averaged nearly 67 miles an hour in the S.A. 100 mile solo championship at Sellicks Beach. Monday. He rode a 8] h.p. ...
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Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954), Wed 3 Feb 1932, Page 11
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