The Rev. G. V. Portus, a well-known Sydney Rugby footballer, recently back from Oxford University, whither he went as a Rhodes Scholar, has been appointed lecturer under the ...
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Advertising : 121 wordsIt is not six months ago since Mr. Justice Grantham, whose remarks from the Bench have caused so much criticism, travelled many thousands of miles by land and water on a ...
Article : 247 wordsThe proposal has again been made for an athletic contest between Oxford and Cambridge and Yale and Harvard or between Cambridge and Harvard, and the matter is being considered ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. A. M. Crook, Lancashire County, has been nominated by the Rugby Union Committee as president for next season, in succession to Mr. T. C. Pring, Devon. ...
Article : 30 wordsDr. H. M. Moran, who captained "The Wallabies" during their tour of Great Britain, and who had been expected to play a practical part in Rugby this year—that is, as a referee—is ...
Article : 58 wordsAn important order has been issued by General Smith-Dorrien, warning army footballers against being bought out to become professional players, as, according to Rule 32 of the F.A., ...
Article : 58 wordsPhilip E. Hore, aged 18, a son of the secretary of the local branch of the Hibernian Society, Gympic (Q.), died from hemorrhage of the brain caused by getting a bump on the head when ...
Article : 40 wordsA writer in an English paper says:—"I wonder what some of the high-souled British workmen who are regularly guilty of 'barracking' would say if their houses were to stand behind ...
Article : 56 wordsGeorge Unholz wished draw referee Bill Squires' attenton to the fact that Bob Whitelaw was fouling brother Rudie when that pair met at Maitland on July 26, 1909, and these are the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe transfer of L. R. Roose, the famous Welsh International goalkeeper, from Sunderland to Huddersfield is announced. Roose has played regularly for Sunderland for the last three ...
Article : 49 wordsTwo miners, Walter-Moat and John Jinks were buried by a fall of roof at the Silkstone pl[?] of the Whitworth, Colliery, Normanton. Jinks was a player of great promise, and was ...
Article : 53 wordsA. L. H. Gotley, who captained England against Scotland at Twickenham recently in the Calcutta Cup football match, has left for Rhodesia, to take up an appointment under the ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the principal event at Oral (N.Z.) Sports Club's Meeting last week, Dowd, the rider of Gamester, was thrown from his mount when doing a preliminary. On the conclusion of the ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the last Canning Park (W.A.) races the Benvollo mare, Herondale, dropped dead while being saddled up for the Third-class Plate. A post-mortem examination disclosed that her ...
Article : 52 wordsThe King has intimated to the Polytechnic authorities that he will be pleased to allow the start of the Polytechnic Harriers' "Marathon" race to take place from the private grounds of ...
Article : 75 wordsWriting to the Sydney "Referee" in reference to a statement regarding big bags, a correspondent says: "I would back Donegal against any county in Ireland for good ...
Article : 104 wordsAnother interesting victory is to be credited to J. H. Parry, son of Judge Parry, who won the quarter-mile race and the long jump at the Oxford University sports last month. He won ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. "Jim" Sharman, a resident of the ancient town of Camden (N.S.W.) for over 60 years, who was "scouting" for a number of pigeon-shooters at Sydney last week, to the ...
Article : 55 wordsA really great cox. (said Mr. W. G. East, ex-champion amateur sculler of England) must have a perfect genius for noting to a nicety just the crucial moments to do this or that; ...
Article : 244 wordsFor the third year in succession J. Bouin has won the cross-country championship of France. This time showed improved form by his easy win from H. Ballon and J. Keyser Bouin ran ...
Article : 98 wordsEvidently an English racehorse owner believes that the naming of horses has something to do with their success or otherwise, for we find that Mr. M. Raphael has given the name ...
Article : 102 wordsGray has now been playing day after day without rest for more than three months, four [?]ours per Gtem in public and almost as much in private, for it he is to maintain his wonderful ...
Article : 198 wordsConnected by marriage with the Lytielton family, Dr. Talbot, the recently-appointed Bishop of Winchester, shares their enthusiasm for cricket. ...
Article : 80 wordsBack row (from the left) : Mr. W. B. Reld (coach), Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Amos, Miss H. Cameron, Mrs. Abernethy (skip), and Mr. J. C. Abernethy (coach). Front row : Mrs. Griffiths (skip), Miss J. Cameron, Mr. F. J. Sherwood (president), Miss McKelvie, and Mrs. Sherwood. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsThe famous wrestler, Hackenschmidt, arrived at Plymouth from America on April 8, after a five months tour, during which he has taken part in about 40 contests. His great regret ...
Article : 85 wordsWhile Mr. Harry Virr was winning the "Amateur Billiards Championship of the United Kingdom" in Dublin, a fourteen-year-old Bradfordian in Harry Taylor was winning the ...
Article : 123 words"Do you like English methods of racing?" was a question recently put to Danny Maher, the crack American jockey. "Most certainly, I do," he answered, "though ...
Article : 291 wordsStand bells on hips (Fig. 1.). Place bells on shoulders, then under shoulders (Fig. 2). Thrust arms forward, then bend (Fig. 3). Arms in front of shoulders; held as in Fig. 4. Arms ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,009 wordsThe Canadian and world's record holder, G. H. Goulding, has recently been in New York where he competed at the New York A.C.'s indoor athletic meetings. His walking ...
Article : 151 wordsAlfred Shrubb continues to delight American audience by his phenomenal running abilities. His latest victim was J. J. Hayes. the winner of the Olympic Marathon race, whom he met in ...
Article : 173 wordsPaul Withington, the Harvard (U.S.A.) coach, was praising the milder football of 1910:— "Football in the 90's was a terrible game," said Mr. Withington. "Bourget, you know, ...
Article : 113 wordsInterviewed at Fremantle on his arrival there Tom Reece, the English billiardist, said of Australia's boy champion: "I would like to say that George Gray is the most wonderful boy in ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Sydney light-weight, Ernest Huxley, left by the Mooltan for England, and his father, E. A. Huxley, caught the same boot at Adelaide. It is on the cards that the latter will put in for ...
Article : 111 words"There's nothing like point-to-point and hunt races for providing amusing sport," remarked the old huntsman. "I remember an Army major," he continued, ...
Article : 298 wordsA young forward who has jumped into prominence in England this year is Winship, the dimisutive outside-left, who plays for Woolwich Arsenal. If he could add a few more inches in ...
Article : 210 wordsAs a football legislator, Lord Kinnaird had exercised an invaluable influence for the gold of the game. Many followers of professional football have but little idea of the extent of ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Connolly, the West Australian owner, is known all over Australia as "Lucky Connolly," and for two or three seasons things went so much his way that the title seemed Justified. ...
Article : 222 wordsJust after the start of the race for the Adelaide Cup last week a trooper on the course interfered with the horses, two of which (Dyed Garments and Goodwood) fell, walle the chances ...
Article : 224 wordsCaptain Hardress Lloyd is in charge of the English team to compete in the United States for the America Cup. He has taken 35 ponies to America, and will have the following ...
Article : 82 wordsDon't run away with the idea, because you don't get a bite at once, that there are no fish in the sea. Don't try and jerk the head off your fish and ...
Article : 326 wordsSam Langford recently gave an English pressman some information about his early struggles before coming into the limelight as a pugilist. "It is true that I was once a porter, janitor, ...
Article : 351 wordsIt was an ancient pugilist. Upon a cushioned seat; He sat and watched a boxing show And spoke with frenzied heat. ...
Article : 155 wordsA Brisbane resident wrote to an English paper stating:—"We have a horse, called Developer here. I believe he was a winner in England. If you could find sufficient space to ...
Article : 293 wordsF. White, the cycling overlander, who was anxious to break the record of F. Birtles from Fremantle to Sydney—about 3077 miles—arrived in Sydney, at the G.P.O. at 9.3 p.m. on ...
Article : 184 wordsFrom Bathurst (N.S.W.) comes word of the death of one-old-time te[?]ated cricketer,Mr. G. B. Richardson. Deceased's first acquaintance with Bathurst was as a member of the ...
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Globe (Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1914), Wed 17 May 1911, Page 5
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