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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
3
Trade catalog notes numerous silk fabrics by width and pattern with colors and special values. Items include 18 inch Lovisene tartan silks in wine helio reseda navy and white. chiffon taffeta silks. brocade silks. damask and satin options with price markdowns and yards per value. Also lists Louisene and Japense washing silks with assorted hues and discounts.
Advertises discounted bulk purchase of three stock at eight per cent, featuring red ticket marked goods from Holmes and Sons Melbourne. Promises great bargains on sample bredsteads and a range of best grade goods with 15 cots included in Holmes stock. Sale items claim rapid turnover with limited availability.
A busy racing report outlines tomorrow's Rosehill program with a strong betting slate and convenient tram access. It notes Beauchamp gelding Rhoshus State Recruit and St Leonard among entries, recalls recent Albury results, and lists gear and jockey positions while reporting Bendigo’s Grand Annual Steeplechase and other winners.
The East Sydney A A Club will hold its annual cross country from Cole's Hotel Flemington tomorrow afternoon. Members should catch the 9.30 p.m. train from Sydney. A 100 yards club handicap will also be run. An amendment to the ponality ten to that effect is doubled and it is recommended that branches affiliate with governing bodies in each sport as they are represented.
The council of the 8.8, W. Apinelation favors forming the Amateur Sporting Federation but objects to listing the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools and several other unions, including the Public Schools' Athletic Association and Sydney University Sports Union, in the government roster.
The selection includes Mosman states Ferguson Booth Siilman Reynolds Senior Leigh Lane Travers Prostor Downe Petersham Moyer Werrick Allan Hayes Maliory Russell Mucdougall Lacuna afCor Mick O Neill Gelledge Dewson Mayne Butwood Fowler Whisker Southwick Aylmer Hot Corbett Brown Jono Ash down Souter Milne D Fowler Ralmain Hart Loutit Hughes Fiat Gabriel Clark Fushardinga Harrold Gregory Rowntree White Macpherson Campbell Waverley Pallwood King Cullen Ward Baxter Dawson Abel Gregory Linsley Todi Culver Palle Stanmore Morgan darkyon Farebrother Lamstowns Laidiow Binstead Hands Stevenson Pidgeon Collyer Burls Turton Farrar Oly Garnett Boswell Jurett Wilkin son Merrett Singleton Woode Massey Cul ten Ward Orier Hicwood Johnson Middle Marbor Ossley Goldstein Att worth Lane Watson Arthur Swan Senior Booth Wood
Handicaps listed for Leichhardt Club Gladerone SMS Rann event to be held soon during Irish Week. Notable competitors include Barrell PF, Mizon S J, Bex Mont 7, Verew 7, Collings A, Kenny E, with officials A. Collings and E. Kenny referenced.
NSW Cyclists' Union members urged to enter the Redfern Club M Neil Austral road race on the Hammush course near Parramatta. Event planned as two heats though date delayed from the 6th, rescheduled to later this week.
A scratched roster shows Cowna 2 facing itiblan Bat Vistorie Barrarks with players Nel el Lena Walley Shen Plockhart Flockhart Hawn Connell Thumpson Bray Rowmwell Winton Rodd. Details indicate a 12th man Winton and 1 goal by Rodd.
The SB W amateur championships are planned for June at the Gaiety Athletic Hall Castlereagh Street with boxing classes Bantam Feather Light Welter Middle and Heavy plus wrestling Ort Vatdib Heary and others featuring numerous listed entrants including H Stevens P Kinghorn F Rigghorn and H Hedger among many. A stray verse ends the page with the quip about Peppers at Cured and a lawyer.
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