Miscellaneous sport

Warren Fahey sings ‘I’m Forever Playing Two-Up’, a song learnt from his father, George Fahey.

No visit to a major sporting stadium in the twentieth century was worth tuppence without the consumption of a hot saveloy in a roll. Street sellers had portable stoves which kept the snags hot and they would yell out their wares: “get ’em hot, get ’em now, hot saveloys”

Searle was one of our internationally successful oarsmen and Australia seems to have ruled the world of skulling.
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Australia’s first internationally successful sportsmen, and they were ‘men’, were skullers. Oarsman, Bill Beach, was a superhero and he was followed by Henry Searle..
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SYDNEY GAME

a menagerie race where an animal had to run (with person) for 75 yards. A dog came first and a goose second.

A MELODY RACE

the first 50 yards on hands and feet the second 50 yards backwards, the third anyway you liked.