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EMPIRE BOYS RIFLE COMPETITION. The result of the boys’ Empire miniature rifle shooting competition for the King George V trophy was; South Africa,!: Great Britain,2; New Zealand, 3. Canada. Australia and India failed to qualify. * » * • AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS AT COLOMBO; The Australian cricket team began a 'match today at the Sports Club Ground, Colombo, ringed with luxuriant tropical growth and thronged by gaily-clad natives from whom thenewspapers, by a conspiracy of silence, had withheld the news that Bradman was not playing owing to a troublesome throat. The Ceylon Eleven included no Europeans.' Tire weather is fine and hot. Australia batted first, and scored 353 for the: loss of five wicktes. Fingleton scored 49, Brown 53, Badcock 116, Hassett 116, McCabe four, Barnes, not out, eight, and Chipperfield. not out, 0.
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Northern Advocate, 31 March 1938, Page 7
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