mando1463 said:Wine drinking
Don't think we invented that. We do participate a little tho.
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Don't think we invented that. We do participate a little tho.
Was it polocrosse?
No Doc
Good question, the polocrosse folks reckon they have the only international sport invented in Australia, but it was in Sydney.
Back to the research.
Back to the research.
I have been doing more research on this question and surprise surprise, controversy.
The interweb is a dangerous place. Something stated as fact in one place is shot down in another :8
To rephrase the question....
What international sport is CLAIMED BY SOME to be the only international sport invented in the Hunter. Hint... lower down the valley then where polocrosse would have been invented.
I apologise for not researching my question fully 8.(
RR
The interweb is a dangerous place. Something stated as fact in one place is shot down in another :8
To rephrase the question....
What international sport is CLAIMED BY SOME to be the only international sport invented in the Hunter. Hint... lower down the valley then where polocrosse would have been invented.
I apologise for not researching my question fully 8.(
RR
Hmmmm
Was it sport parachuting?
Was it sport parachuting?
Not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
Then I've got nothing. Be interested in the answer.
Hint...maitland. early1900s
Did you see my revised question Doc?....
I have been doing more research on this question and surprise surprise, controversy.
The interweb is a dangerous place. Something stated as fact in one place is shot down in another ops
To rephrase the question....
What international sport is CLAIMED BY SOME to be the only international sport invented in the Hunter. Hint... lower down the valley then where polocrosse would have been invented.
I apologise for not researching my question
RR
Did you see my revised question Doc?....
I have been doing more research on this question and surprise surprise, controversy.
The interweb is a dangerous place. Something stated as fact in one place is shot down in another ops
To rephrase the question....
What international sport is CLAIMED BY SOME to be the only international sport invented in the Hunter. Hint... lower down the valley then where polocrosse would have been invented.
I apologise for not researching my question
RR
Motorcycle speedway? It is controversial, but still a good question.
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Paul
Motocycle speedway
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Paul
The early history of speedway race meetings is a subject of much debate and controversy. There is evidence to show that meetings were held on small dirt tracks in Australia and the United States before World War I. An American rider named Don Johns was known to have used broadsiding before 1914. It was said that he would ride the entire race course wide open, throwing great showers of dirt into the air at each turn.[1] By the early 1920s, Johns' style of cornering was followed in the US where the sport was initially called "Short Track Racing" by riders such as Albert "Shrimp" Burns, Maldwyn Jones and Eddie Brinck.[2] Consequently, two long-hold and common beliefs are incorrect: first, that New Zealand-born rider Johnnie Hoskins invented the sport, and second, that the first meeting was held on 15 December 1923 at West Maitland Showground, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. For instance, a contemporary newspaper report of this meeting, in the Maitland Mercury, mentions previous meetings.
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Paul
damn dduck same time
Yep HB, must have beaten you by a key press. Give me a few mins to think of a question.
1923 showground
Very talented Australian musician and composer who was close to his mother, and had a taste for flagellation.
He was a pianist...
No Doc.
Dec 1923 maitland showground
Dec 1923 maitland showground
DrDuck said:
Oh crap missed a few posts. Sorry.
Yes speedway has long been claimed as first started at Maitland in 1923.
Over to you Doc.
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