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nla.gov.au/nla.obj-466499855 - a cropped version of this pic, showing the 3 girls on the left, appeared in Pix on 29th June, 1940, in a feature article titled 'Psychologist Tells: Why Women Go to Wrestling'...see pp. 6-7. 'O-o--o-o-h! These Three Girls Miss Enid Pickworth (clerk), Miss Beryl McClivie (typist) and Miss Dot Doherty (machinist) seldom miss a wrestling match. They belong to a party of 12 girls organised by Mrs. E. Skodder, probably Australia's keenest wrestling fan. In 1936 she was manager of bantam-weight boxer, Harry Cohen - [the] only woman in Australia to fill such a position. This party tops Sydney Stadium's "regular" list.' - caption accompanying photo on p.7. Enid Pickworth appears in another photo in this Pix article...she's the girl on the left clasping her hands...I suspect Beryl McClivie's surname was misspelled or maybe her friends called her 'McClivie'...my guess is her surname might have been McClive... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/247775321 - the Daily Telegraph, 21st August, 1939...'Somebody said - Ladies love a fight - So we asked 'em'...similar kind of article here...

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England v Australia 1928 : test cricket comes to Queensland By JOL Admin | 18 July 2013 The year 1928 saw the culmination of a long campaign to bring test cricket to Queensland. The admission of Queensland to the Sheffield Shield competition in 1926 had opened the door. International cricket had been played in Queensland since 1883 when an English touring side visited the state and played a match against the Queensland team but efforts to bring test cricket to Brisbane for the England tour of 1907-08 were unsuccessful. The facilities at the Brisbane Cricket Ground were not up to scratch and Queensland cricket authorities returned to the Exhibition Ground which had not been used for first-class cricket for some years. This move proved successful and on 30th November 1928, the first test of the series against England began at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground. The Brisbane Courier eagerly anticipated the first test. Supporters of cricket in Queensland have had their way after a long uphill fight, and Brisbane is to have a Test match. Two main reasons used to be advanced against holding one of the Tests in this city. The first was that the status of Queensland itself as a cricketing State did not warrant any change. That reason has lost weight, since Queensland now competes for the Sheffield Shield, and is recognised as a State of great cricketing possibilities. The other reason was that the wicket in Brisbane was not good enough for Test cricket. That objection also has been removed, for during the last visit of an English team to this city it was amply demonstrated that the wicket at the Exhibition Grounds could compare very favorably with the wickets in the South. Once a distinguished English cricketer opposed the holding of a Test in Brisbane "because Brisbane was too hot." Such an objection is not seriously raised nowadays, and we doubt whether that particular player was in earnest. There remains then for the success of Brisbane's first Test match only liberal patronage on the part of the public. There were no Queensland players in the starting eleven for Australia although local allrounder Ron Oxenham was the 12th man and took a catch to dismiss Sutcliff in the second innings. The side also included Victorian slow bowler Bert Ironmonger who was born in Queensland. Three Queensland players were featured in the other matches of the series. Otto Nothing, a medium-pace bowling allrounder played in the second test in Sydney. Ron Oxenham played in the last three tests and was joined in the last test in Melbourne by slow bowler Percy Hornibrook. This was the first time two Queenslanders had been on the Australian test team and both contributed to Australia's only winning performance of the series. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/england-v-australia-1928-test-cri...