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• TI - Basketball - TI - 1957

  Ladies basketball teams listed. Playing every Thursday night.

• TI - RL - TI - 1957

  Game report. Blues 22 defeated Reds 19. Try scroeres listed.

• TI - RL - TI - 1957

  Game report. Blues 35 defeated Greens 19. Try scorers listed.

• TI - RL - TI - 1957

  Game report. Greens 46 defeated Reds 20. Tryscorers listed

• TI - RL - TI Teams & Players - 1957

  Rugby League season starts. 3 Teams with Coaches listed. 1. Kropp Bowie's Blue team 2. Gelam Warria's Green team and 3. Roly Kirk's Red team. Coaches and players listed.

• TI - RL - TI - 1957

  Torres News (Thursday Island, Qld. : 1957-2015) 16 April 1957: 7 Game report (brief). First competition games held. Roly Kirk's Reds versus Kropp Bowies Blues. Result not reported. Torres News (Thursday Island, Qld. : 1957-2015) 16 April 1957: 8 Game report. Reds defeated Blues 26-20. Only 19 players in total. Tryscorers listed.

• TI - Boxing - TI - 1957

  Boxing Tournament Thursday Island. Bouts and results listed.

• TI- Tennis - TI - 1957

  Tennis Club AGM notes.

• Cherbourg, Thursday Island - Boxing - Mackay - 1950 June

  Jimmy Sharman Troupe. Col Daley from Cherbourg vs Tony Assan, "pearl diver" from Thursday Island. Daley is not named , but it is clear from context that he is the boxer referred to as "one lad who shone like a full moon was Archie Bradley's Cherbourg mission fighter". Cross-reference this with report of Assan-Daley fight in Sharman's tent in Cairns around this time: Cairns Post, 20 July 1950, p2.

• Cherbourg, Palm Island, Woorabinda - Jubilee Celebration - Multiple Locations - 1951

  Brisbane Telegraph (Qld) 10 April 1951: 14 More than 120 aborigines from four settlements in Queensland and Torres Strait will come to Brisbane for the Jubilee celebration week. Brief run down of events.
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  TI - boxing - TI - 1935

  Boxing at Town Hall arranged by the Straits Sporting Club. Context suggests these are weekly events. Key fight is Stephen (Buddie) Saranealis v Henry Dan for the Heavyweight Championship of Thursday Island. Several others bouts listed.

• Thursday Island - cricket - description - 1903

  South Sea Islanders pearlers encouraged to play cricket

• Cherbourg, Thursday Island - Boxing - Cairns - 1950 July

  Cherbourg boxer Col Daley to fight in Jimmy Sharman troupe: “Yet another bout of interest is the clash between Thursday Island's vicious puncher, "Tony" Assan and Archie Bradley’s Cherbourg Mission lad, Col. Daley, who is rated to be one of the best prospects in the state. Bradley claims his latest discovery will prove another Elly Bennett”. See entry for Mackay 1950