OLD PHOTOGRAPHS LOST
DISASTROUS FIRE AT SOUTH MELBOURNE.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 14th August, 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A fused electric wire was responsible for destruction by fire of the members' pavilion at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground. The greatest loss to the club is that of a, scries of old photographs, most of .them irreplaceable, of members of the club who had become famous in the cricket world. These photographs included such great players as Warwick Armstrong, H. and A. E. Trott, and Jack Conway, who resigned the captaincy of the club to manage the first Australian eleven to visit England.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 9
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104OLD PHOTOGRAPHS LOST Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 9
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