Central West sports set for Longreach weekend tourney
More than 100 representatives from four bodies travel from Rockhampton and beyond to Longreach for a busy weekend. Rugby League, football and hockey matches feature intertown clashes, with Central West and Rockhampton squads, plus YWCA cricket and basketball events. Notable players include Bernie Johnson and Prance Central Queensland star Puig-Aubert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.E.E
Rockhampton
Central West
Longreach
Blackall
Winton
Bernie Johnson
New South Wales
Johnson
Central Queensland
France
Prance
North Queensland
Puig-Aubert
Longreach Club Names Top Swimmers and Trophies
After the season closes, Longreach Amateur Swimming Club announces points and awards for 1951 to 1962. Jean Sutton earns Women A Grade top swimmer and John Rossberg tops Men A Grade. Percy Camden wins junior best trier. blazers to leading swimmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longreach Amateur
John Rossberg
Jean Sutton
Croall and Reardon
The Greatest Game and a Leather Ball Battle
A fragment evokes a soccer or football scene with references to sixteen shillings, Blackall town, and thirteen men meeting around a leather ball. The verse hints at a historic contest and looming worry as champions may fall in a communal sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bate Gm
Blackall Town
Rugby selectors to watch as Central West juniors face Rockhampton
Central Queensland selectors will travel to Longreach to view the Central West Juniors matchups against Wanderers East West and Rockhampton. Readies list of players from Blackall Barcaldine Longreach Winton and other clubs with team colours and captains named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackall
Central West
Rockhampton
Binckall
Longreach Golf Club
Pallce Marck Th Carter
Queensland
Golf Club
Longreach
Central Western
Rock- Golf
Le-Maating
Q. Philipson
W. Rochester
Intertown
R. Steemson
Central Westee
Teserve
R. Burny
Oene
Bunt
Jesbérg
M. Hauff
C. Irvine
M. Irwin
B. Johnson
M. Turn
Central Queensland
Long Teach
de ‘Woat
Lea
Central West Juniors
Wanderers
East
Barcaldine
R. Clarke
Capt
Long- Well
Winton
B.reach
Marks
L. Kenna
N. Cliffe
Grant
Cwatoe
Blacker Creel
Williams Reach
N. Ballas
Jackson
Jackson Aeroniacy. R. Webmar R. (Longreach); " ‘Thompson
G. Thurecht
D. Thompson
R. Ivers
Whanderers Junior
C. Hinton
T. Banks
R. Krause
A. Scamp
A Rycen
C. Dodds
D. Tucker
T. Barnes
R. Robinson
R. Gutheridge
V. Seaby
J. Hauff
T. Bannah Peereiabos
R. Bar
P. Shaw
W. Alexander
Col- Ours
Maroon. West
G. Douglas
L. Linsker
Long
V. Evert
D. Hill
B. Pollock
Biretton
Phillipson
W. Bochester
W. Green
RB. Campbell Barcaldine
O. Hauff
M. Turnbull
Budd
Barcaled
F. Esberg
NH. Ee
Ww. Liddell
D. Crow
E. Jeffcoat
K. Roberts
J. Whyte
D. Casey
M. Green
G. McKenzie
G. Williams
E. Fisher
N. Joyce
Neste
C. Barnes
J.eet Wert
Bird
Hunt
Unsworth Leads Longreach Intertown Batting Averages
Cricket bodies announce season batting and bowling averages and fielding totals. K Unsworth tops batting with 25.66 average, H Searles leads bowling at 3.14, F Shaw takes eight catches across ten intertown matches against Barcaldine Rockhampton Watersiders Mt Morgan and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Cricket Association
Longreach
Association
K. Unsworth
H. Searles
F. Shaw
Barcaldine
Rockhampton
Rockhampton Watersiders
Mt. Morgan
Myers
J. Unsworth
A. Myers
L. Twidale
Camden
A. Deasy
W. Thurlow
J. Whelan
D. Grant
P. Nelson
J. Houghton
R. McGrath
C. Cogrell
A. Mulholland
Also Mentioned on This Page
West
Allenstown Hockey Club
Cricke
Rockhampton Y.W.C.A
L Kneen
McVey
Tle
I. Kneen
K. Lawrence
Searles
Lawrence
A. Butler
J. Rossberg
J. Sutton
G. Steedman
Janury
G. Steelman
Lap
Yomguana
Northern Territory
North West
O’brien
Imperial Hotel
C.Q
Eouy Bay
Australia
Harris Bros
Aramac
Muttaburra
Isisford
Jundah
Alpha
Jericho
N.O Hs Tl K
Tynan
D. Butler
EK. Unsworth
BD. Grant
Larking
Whelan
Shaw
Deasy
Houghton
L. Ogg Ae
Briskey
Mulholland
Macdonald
R. Beardue
Carney
EH. Macdonald
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