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Cricket Curiosities (No. 73) – Dying Cow Stops Game

Posted on November 29, 2018 by

In January 1930 Sydney’s The Sun newspaper and The Newcastle Sun reported the following unusual occurrence of many years prior: The Sun (Sydney) Tuesday, 28 January 1930 A long-lost Sydney urban myth? Or the exhausted rantings of a sports journalist … Continue reading →

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The Staying Powers of Men – Macdonaldtown Park 50yd Race

Posted on September 14, 2015 by

Good grief. Who knows how it came to this. Now some blokes have been known to overstate their athletic abilities, but I reckon that if you weighed 17st. (108kg) you’d have realised a running race probably wasn’t worth staking your … Continue reading →

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