DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
CRICKET PAVILION BURNED
OLD PUOTOGIUI’US LOST,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, . Australian and N.Z. Press Association.
MELBOURNE, August 14
(Received August 14, at 9.10 a.m.)
A fused electric wire was responsible for the destruction by fire of the members’ pavilion at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground. The greatest loss to the club is that of a series of old photographs, most of which cannot bo replaced, of members of the chib who became famous in the cricket world, such as Warwick Armstrong, H. and A. E. Trott, and Jack Conway, who resigned the captaincy of the clnb to manage the first Australian Eleven to visit England. _____
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Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 4
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106DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 4
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