sports

Sometimes starts as a fun game between two ladies, yet can end up more serious.

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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: Annual sports days have been featured in Yarrabah in north Queensland since the Church of England established the mission in 1892. From at least 1917, sports have been held to commemorate the mission’s birthday and are tinged with religious associations. The foundation sports day competitions themselves include a mixture of footraces, quaint recreational activities, and traditional Aboriginal events such as fire lighting and spear throwing. Imposed on inmates of the mission as a colonial event, they are embraced by residents and celebrated as the ‘Pride of Yarrabah’. On 17 June 1892, Reverend John Brown Gribble established the Yarrabah Mission (initially called Bellenden Ker after a nearby mountain range) on behalf of the Church of England, 16 kilometers by sea and, today, 60 kilometers by road from Cairns in north Queensland. Sports days in Yarrabah, documented since 1895, have been central to foundation commemorations since at least 1917. These annual events have included myriad activities, as indicated in a church report (Northern Churchman, 1 August 1941, p. 16): There were races to suit every taste – long-distance, flat races for those who liked hard work, thread the needle, book races, boomerang and mirral [woomera] throwing, etc. for those who prefer testing their skill: a lemon race for those clean folk who are fond of washing their faces; for the adventurous ones, there was a greasy pole to be climbed. Aquatic events such as boat races have disappeared from the contemporary program, but foot races, traditional Aboriginal activities, and novelty competitions continue. Local Aboriginal man, Darren Miller, argued that the annual sports day represented more than just sports, but was ‘a day of existence’. Miller was referring not only to the celebration of Yarrabah’s founding, but also its continued existence as a proud, Aboriginal community. Source: espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_6e87ff4/Yarrabah_sports_...