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Newspaper
Sydney Referee
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 17, 1938
Page
9
Muddy crowds greet O'Reilly at a tense game with shouting, smiting, and rapid exchanges. Players clash, innings swing, and officials struggle to control the scene as spectators cheer and react to each move.
Fragmentary OCR text references a marine counter and several persons including Jon and V McCostey. Mentions a place and event or meeting with unclear details and multiple proper nouns.
An unclear OCR passage references Victoria electors and Wesley College. It notes historical mentions of stations or halls and a general discussion of education and local individuals. The garbled text makes specific names or dates hard to extract.
An opaque OCR fragment references a man named Brown and multiple disjoint terms. It mentions September, strokes, a date, and various scattered names and places, without coherent events or context. The text reads as noisy notes rather than a clear article.
Advertising for Don Bradman drew a crowd of over 100 to the Kensington Oval in Adelaide district where he played amid a recent injury. He scored 49 in two minutes before a rare run out, with a large calico streamer on display and the club secretary’s promotional design.
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