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Newspaper
Sydney Referee
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 30, 1936
Page
17
A chaotic OCR inspired fragment details a cricket eleven aside with Pram Kigi and St aut ok among players. It references batting, fielding, and spectators, noting attempts at scoring and varied outcomes in this lively domestic match.
A garbled note recalls the Harraway family of New Zealand and the Harraway father with ten sons forming a cricketing eleven. It mentions 1888 and a listed Australian and New Zealand context, detailing a historic family sport effort and a related tour or match.
At Kennington Oval in September 1910 thirteen Abels defeated the Early Birds. W. J. Abel scored 120 off his own bat while Bobby Abel, famed Test batsman, and four of his sons helped secure the win. The Abel family was a renowned cricketing clan in England, with a long first class legacy.
The Plite family from Northern Rivers New South Wales played a rare one family cricket match at Yass. Hortons versus Gorhams yielded 236 to 129 with Will Horton one run shy of a century. The victors hailed from four cousin families and won the Comins Cup twice in succession.
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