Each day examples of sports news from exactly 100 years ago will be reproduced in blog posts below. Most of the posts will mostly relate to soccer (or British Association football as it was sometimes know in the pre-war period) but other sports will get a look in, especially during the Australian summer.The material will be extracted from the National Library of Australia's digital archive and other sources.
3 May 1912, Hobart Mercury
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
Owing to the delay
caused by the re-drafting of the competition rules theBritish
Association League roster will not commence to-morrow, as previously
intimated, but on Saturday, May 11. Two practice games have been
arranged for to-morrow. As the association's, new ground at Lindisfarne
is not available to-morrow, the St. George v. Hobart match will take
place at South Hobart.The cement, wicket will be covered with a couple
of loads of tan. The following are the teams for to-morrow's matches; -
South
Hobart v. Y.M.C.A., at Cornelian Bay; kick-off at 3 p.m. Players travel
by the 2.25 p.m. train from town. South Hobart: J. H. Honeysett
(capt.),W. Swinton. J. Mirrlees, A. Fry, H.Smith, A. Crawson, A.
Cracknell, J;Fletcher, F. Roberts, L. Fry. and A.Ringrose. Y.M C.A.:
Perry, Nicholson, Hubbard, Wilkins. Gudgeon, Dawkes, Higgins, Wilson,
Hudson, Bond, Gates, Cato, Kitto, and Lockington.
Hobart
v. St. George, at South Hobart ; kick-off at 3.15 .p.m. St. George: W.
Jones (capt.), Pratt, Almond. Benson, Hogben, Reid, Gould, Garde,
Parkinson,Wise, and Schultz. Hobart: A. Jephson (capt.), J. McMillan,
Mortimer, Collier, Glen Mitchell. Brad, Leverton, Lewis, J. P. Smith,
Lighten, and J. Long.
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