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At Griffith

https://collection.maas.museum/object/325415#&gid=1&pid=1

PIC/15611/1-18002 LOC Cold store-Fairfax archive of glass plate negatives [picture]/Radio broadcast of day four of the Ashes tour from radio station 2UE, Sydney, 24 July 1934

A telegram from Young citizen and Federal MP Tom Collins wishing Young best wished in their Maher Cup match. Date is difficult to read, but is probably the Junee challenge on 1 August 1934.

Young Rugby League Maher Cup and Weissel Cup winning team of 1934.

The people from top left are:
Dick Heinrich - spelled wrong in caption. Young butcher and president of the club (1884-1940)

Clarence 'Jum' Miller - later played for…

Group 9 Team of 1934

Back from left: Lindsay Gown (Group 9 secretary), Harry Phair (Junee), Bill Newcombe (Young), Reverend Dudley Leggett (Young), Jack James (Cootamundra), Bill Thompson (Grenfell), Jack Whitty (Junee), Norman Bland (Temora),…

Keith Ellis played for Junee 1928-31 but otherwise played for Newtown. Ellis in centre, Thornton on right.

Cootamundra De La Salle Old Boys 1934.

Catholic high schools were great developers of football talent. At least 10 of these boys plus their coach represented in the Maher Cup:

From back left: Jack Chapman (trainer), Benny Hudson, Hugh…

A still from a collection of W.F. Gilbert photographs. Young baths opened in 1934 so the lack of landscaping would indicate this was taken soon after opening.

I think this is the team from the final Maher Cup match of 1934 on 22 August.

From back left: Ernie Heinrich (local butcher - president?), Clarence ‘Jum’ Miller, Father John Morrison, Jim McMenamin, Norman 'Ben' Hall, Merv Torpy, Mick O’Rourke,…