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Sunday Times
Sydney, Sunday, 29 January 1922, page 2.

Results of North Wollongong Surf Club's annual carnival were :-
Dawes Championship Shield : North Wollongong (55.50 points), 1; Woonona (50), 2; South Wollongong (48.50), 3.

March Past : North Wollongong, 1 ; Woonona, 2.
Surf Board Display : D. Warne (North Wollongong)

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1922 'Woonona Show Winners', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 29 January, p. 2. , viewed 02 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128211451

Cairns Post
Tuesday 31 January 1922, page 3.

SURF THRILLS
DARING DEEDS OF RESCUE WORK AT MANLY.

"Three members of the Surf Club went out to shoot the breakers at Manly recently, and were followed by two men who were warned not to make the attempt.
Before long they were caught in thc undertow and carried out, and the life-savers had to go to their aid.

Mr. Norman Smith jumped in with a life-line and battled out, having a hard swim for a great distance.

His line became entangled in the rocks, but he got clear and reached one man, who was held up for over half an hour by Dr. R. E. Brown; of Sydney Hospital, and Mr. Arthur Richards.
Thc surfer was brought ashore amid cheers.

The other man was dragged out much farther, and was only rescued after a strenuous struggle by the surf-boat, which had been. manned from Fairy Bower.

Thousands of people cheered the boat as it returned.
Messrs. Downing and Chissold, of the Manly Surf Club, were, among those who helped in the rescue.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

At the same time Mr. S. Downing had a miraculous escape from death.

He was on a surf-board, when a big wave rushed him towards the rocks.

He jumped clear just as the board, was dashed on the jagged rocks.

North Steyne also had its thrills.

Test races were being held by the surf club in the morning, and the first heat passed off without incident.

In the second heat, however, a number of club members, all trained life-savers, were washed out to sea, and had to be rescued by their comrades -"Telegraph."

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1922 'SURF THRILLS.', Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), 31 January, p. 3. , viewed 02 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40149509

Sunday Times
Sydney, Sunday 5 February 1922, page 36.

SYDNEY HAS THE REAL SURF : WHY NOT THE REAL COMFORT FOR SURFERS

In one picture on this page is shown a typical Bondi breaker, with one surfer riding shoreward on its crest.
Atlantic City has nothing like that.

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1922 'SYDNEY CITY.', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 5 February, p. 13, viewed 23 October, 2014,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128218500

The Newcastle Sun
Friday, 10 February 1922, page 3.

Surf Club Carnival

The N.S.C. was advised this morning from the Sydney association that 16 clubs will be represented in the errand march past, at the carnival on February 18, 24 teams in the senior, and nine teams in the Junior alarm reel races.
Surf boats from Dee Why, Freshwater, Manly, North Narrabeen, Cook's Hill and Newcastle, and no less than a dozen surf 'Duke' board champions will take part.
Present indications point to a record entry, more details of which will be available later.

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1922 'IN THE BRINY', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 10 February, p. 3. , viewed 02 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162797302

The Sydney Morning Herald
Monday, 13 February 1922, page 10.

NORTH BONDI SURF CARNIVAL

...
Surf Board Race- J. C. Downing (Manly), 1; E. Roston (North Bondi), 2.

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1922 'SWIMMING.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 13 February, p. 10. , viewed 02 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15977494

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
Wednesday, 15 February 1922, page 9.

BOARD SHOOTING NEWCASTLE BEACH

Sir,-It is about time the regulation prohibiting the use of surI boards (especially Duke boards) was strictly enforced.

In all the dressing sheds we see notices prohibiting boards, but we see surf club members (above all others) shooting in amongst the bathers.
If they must use bonrds, let them go down to the beach 100 yards to the southward.
It is up to the officialsl to see that this regulation is enforced for all time.
- TOLUOL.

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1922 'BOARD SHOOTING NEWCASTLE BEACH', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 15 February, p. 9. , viewed 02 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140991900

Sunday Times
Sydney, Sunday, 19 February 1922, page 2.

Three Real Bricks

The Adventures of Mel, Ned and Jim

By T. E. Grattan-Smith

...

Ned Grattan could ride a surf-board like an Islander, although only a few weeks had elapsed since the first exhibition of surfboard riding had been given by Kahanamoku, the world's fastest swimmer.
Ned was not the only boy who had mastered the surf-board.
Before the Summer had ended the ocean rollers were ridden as they had never been ridden before, and the great white horses of the old Pacific shook their manes and raced shoreward with sun-brown surfers riding them all out to a finish.

Gallant deeds and actions of self-sacrifice were so frequently performed that the saving of lives from the treacherous undertow went unrewarded and unnoticed, except, perhaps, for a clasp of the hand and a heartfelt 'Thank you,' from the rescued.
It became a point of honor never to mention a risk taken, and a surfer who was unfortunate enough to receive a medal for a gallant action carefully hid it away and 'kept mum.'

Such was the calibre of the boys of the beaches, the crews of the famous eighteen-footers, and the average clean, sport-loving Australian.

Ned Grattan and Jim Stanley were not exceptions; they were typical examples of Australia's budding manhood.

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1922 'Three Real Bricks ', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 19 February, p. 2. (SUPPLEMENT TO THE SUNDAY TIMES), viewed 02 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128215652

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
Monday, 20 February 1922, page 4.

NEWCASTLE SURF CLUB.

ANNUAL CARNIVAL.

...
The surf boat events provided much excitement owing to the condition of the sea.
One of the boats got out of coertrol and was carried up to the rocks.
Two of the others were later swamped in the final of the senior surf boat race.
Some clever exhibitions of surf board riding were given by the visitors from the metropolitan clubs.
...
Surf Board Race.--C. West, Manly, 1; J. O. Downing, Manly, 3: J. Riordan, Newcastle, 3.
...
Surf Board Exhibition. --C. West (Manly), 1: J. O. Downing (Manly), 2.
...
Novice surf board race: J. Riordan (Newcastle).

Surf boat display: Newcastle 1.
Three crews from Dee Why and one from Cook's Hill wore entered, but Newcastle was the only team that took part.

The junior surf boat race was abandoned.

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1922 'NEWCASTLE SURF CLUB.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 20 February, p. 4. , viewed 02 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141000242

Sydney Mail
22 February 1922, page 25.

THIS WEEK'S HONOUR LETTER

DEAR CINDERELLA —

Please forgive me tor not answering your lovely letter before, bul if you've ever been away from home a year, and then gone home for six weeks, you'll know just how the days fly without time for ieller-writing or anything else, they seem to go so quickly.

 
 
I had the
                          most gorgeous lime while I was home at Eden, Cinderella.
There were
                          dances or parties every night (except Sundays), and
                          we went surfing and for picnics during the day.
I got
                          dreadfully sunburnt:but now, except for the fact that
                          my nose is sore and peeling, it seems- all a
                          beautiful dream
 
I had some lovely limes in the surf,
                          especialy at low tide, when we could use surfboards.
These
                        boards
                        are not like the islanders: they are — alas! for the
                        commonplace — merely made of the end of a kerosene-ease,
                        with two corners cut off and smoothed down.
                  
 
 
They give
                          you a delightful
                          shove up the beach (except when the top-piece
                          of your
                          Canadians goes up above your head).
 

But, hush! my footsteps approach vulgar ground, and I must away.
Anyway, if you cannot already use one, if you ever come down to Eden I'll teach you.

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1922 'Children's Page', Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), 22 February, p. 25. , viewed 13 Dec 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169771094

Sydney Sportsman
Tuesday 28 February 1922, page 10.

Claude West was lying last in the surfboard championship, until he cleverly took a twisting wave, almost a dumper, and just beat McKenzie (Bondi), last year's holder, by inches.

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1922 'SWIMMING', Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW : 1900 - 1954), 28 February, p. 10. , viewed 29 Mar 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167168234

Ned and Jim
            had just topped a lovely roller as Andy appeared on the
            scene.

        They had swum out with their board
        fully three hundred yards, and waited until the exact moment
        when an ocean giant, making its mad rush upon the wide barrier
        of sparkling sands, arched his great crest, and then, with
        spreading mane threw himself at the shore, the hoami^B old racer
        having travelled
        leagues of ocean' to strength against
            Australia's 
The boys had caught the glattijH his fury
            was about to break, :nH|ing with their surf-board, twMB slid
            with' a few vigorous kicb JH the mountain-side of 
break and a clean break,were riding full and
            square. bBB 
'Try a double,' ' yelled Ned t9M|
Andy witnessed an amazing
The surf-board
            was lost smother of - spume, but two could be seen three
            hundred away, standing upon their 
a great white breaker that ing shoreward at
            forty miles an ifl 
Andy was amazed. His tliouRhij^B
back to a miracle that ho hajH
about when a boy at Sunday
The same miracle was right before his eye's,
            only evenj^lwas upside down.

            Fortunately®Andy's peace of mind it taokH 
seconds for the riders to reaclfl
shore, and then he breathed (rfl
again. He had not been witidH
anything supernatural, as wasrfl
to him when he saw Ned arufl
resume upright positions and fl
their surf-board
            on the beach, fl
this moment the boys saw Andy fl
recovered from his astonishmejifl
advancing to meet them, jfl
greeting caused a broad snillehfl
pear on the faces of the bo^fl
they made their way toward
They were reminded of Old I
parting words : 'If a messes
rives and asks for a dry pjj,
tobacco, follow his directions.'
For Andy, true 'to his instruct
had called out: 'Hey, mates', hart
got a pipe of tobacco about j
Mine's wet.'
The dripping boys, whoso sen;
humor was as keen as the ed»e
razor, yelled with mirth, and v
Ned asked Andy if he wante
match, too, the storm broke
afresh. Andy saw the joke, a,
broad grin spread over his face
he emitted a chuckle that seem'
conie from his boots.
The party now returned to c
where Andy's instructions were
tened to attentively by the t
They were to leave camp that i
at dusk and proceed to Llll ;
mers' shack,- taking care that
spies did not see them. Andy
to return with the stranger's hot
the stables, and later on join tliefl
of the party at the shack. Event B
would then be in readiness forofl
tions . against the. spies. fjfl
(TO BE CONTINUED.) 18