Queensland Times (Ipswich), Wednesday 1 June 1921, page 4
COLLIERY EMPLOYEES' SPORTS.
The Queensland Colliery Employees' Sports Club,;in accordance with the usual custom, will hold a sports carnival on the Bundanba racecourse, on Friday next (King's Birthday). The committee has been working energetically during the past few weeks, and the arrangements are now about completed. A good day's sport is assured, Judging by the number of entries which have been received for the various events, and if the function is patronised as largely as the committee expects, a record success should compensate the promoters for the trouble they have gone to in making the preparations. Pedestrian and horse events are set down for decision and not the least of the attrac tions will be the junior inter-city soccer match, one of the events of the season so far as local patrons of this form of sport are concerned; This match will begin at 3.15 p.m. and should, in itself, be a big "draw" to the Q.C.I.U. carnival
Daily Mail (Brisbane), Friday 3 June 1921, page 7
ankle deep in mud.
queenslanders plight;
(Bv a Special Correspondent.)
SYDNEY, Thursday.— After having subsisted for two days upon cups of tea and refreshment-room pies, about a hundred hungry Queenslanders stopped off the mail train at Central station in the early hours of this morning. The ladies wore a most dejected air. All their Queen-street finery had been ruined by the rain and mud of Ben Lomond. One lady lost a pair of expensive suede shoes, and tramped off the platform in her husband's house slippers. The troubles of the passengers who left Brisbane at 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning began at Glen Inncs, where a railway official informed them that owing to land slide the mail could not pass. The Train was shunted into a siding. In several carriages the lights were inoperative, and the passengers could not see to undress in the crowded carriages. The Queensland soccer team kept up its spirits by singing "Do I Want, to See My Mother Any more?" and "Take Me Back to Brisbane." Before the day broke crowds of sleepy passengers besieged the refreshment rooms in search of tea and toast, and it was still dark when the train moved out of Glen Innes for Ben Lomond, a few miles away. Just before Ben Lomond was reached the order "all get out" was given. Rain had fallen all night, and when the passengers lowered themselves from the mail train on to the permanent way they found themselves in a sorry plight. Anklc-deep in mud, they were called upon to transport their luggage about a quarter of a mile to the relief train. To do this the men had to clamber up an almost perpendicular height, as the track was impossible be' tween the train and the railway bank. Many persons had had falls in the mud, but the majority took their reverses in good spirit. Eventually the passengers and luggage were lined up in the vicinity of the engine, which was partially buried, and the relief train got away from Ben Lomond for Sydney about 9 o'clock amid cheers.
Lest we ennoble the soccer players too much: this https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/253206276?searchTerm=soccer
Herald (Melbourne), Wednesday 8 June 1921, page 7
football for women
CLAIMS OF RUGBY URGED
SYDNEY, Wednesday.
Considerable controversy In tho newspapers is going on concerning the proposal to establish women's Rugby football clubs In Sydney.
Many people are opposed to the scheme, and medical men have given the opinion that the strain of the game will affect the girls In later life.
Miss Ella Gormlcy, one of the physical culture experts of the Education Department, is opposed to Rugby being played by the girls. She said that in the American universities the girls played "soccer" (Association football), but that was a different game from Rugby. She fancied that this craze for football among Sydney girls was due to tho photographs of the French and English women's football teams and the news of their matches, but she thought the Sydney girls over looked the fact that the game these teams played was "soccer" and not Rugby. She thought that there were plenty of games in which girls could indulge without taking up Rugby football.
Age, Monday 6 June 1921, page 9
Soccer
Windsor 6? goals, St Kilda - 2 goals
Other results:—
League I
- Preston 9, Footscray Thistle ,0;
- Melbourne Thistle 2 (Robertson, Grant), Spotswood 1 (Shrives).
- N. and D. 1 (Lennox) Albert Park 0.
League II
- Welsh United 4, Preston A 0;
- Thistle A 4, St. David's 0;
- St Kilda A 9, Windsor A 2;
- Brunswick 6, Yarra Falls 0.
If we have time:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242499227
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