Settlements - Description - Sport - 1930
Item
Sport
Cricket See all items with this value
Rugby League See all items with this value
Communities Involved
Palm Island See all items with this value
Cherbourg See all items with this value
Woorabinda See all items with this value
Year
1930
Title
Settlements - Description - Sport - 1930
Description
Recreations.—The usual sports and games have been indulged in, and the men enter into cricket and football competitions keenly, and generally give a good account of themselves. The Barambah cricket team had a victorious run, principally through the very fast bowling of Eddie Gilbert, a full-blood, who won his way to interstate honours. The Palm Island Senior and Junior teams organised local competitions for trophies; and matches were played at Rockhampton and at the Settlement by Woorabinda natives and European teams, the victories going to the blacks. (DNA Report for 1930, p. 12)