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Surf board race: F. Adler 1, R. Mulcahy 2, L. Ferguson 3.

Trove
1945 'WEEK-END SPORT IN DETAIL', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 8 January, p. 7. , viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17942342

Truth
Sydney, 28 January 1945, page 8.

WILLIAMS SHOOTS HOME IN SURF RACE

SEVENTEEN-YEARS-OLD Alan Williams turned on the works again in the open surf race at Manly carnival yesterday and romped home a winner before a record crowd.
...

Fred Notting, who had been training with yesterday's race in view, fulfilled all expectations by gliding in an easy winner in the surf board race.

Lou Morath, a Pacific Games representative, filled second place.

...
Results
Surf Board Race: P. Notting (Manly) 1, L. Morath (Manly) 2, R. Mulcahy (Maroubra) 3.
Surf O'Plane Race: K. Hurst (North Bondi) 1, J. Strong (Cronulla) 2, M. Lambert (Clovelly).

Trove

1945 'WILLIAMS SHOOTS HOME IN SURF RACE', Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), 28 January, p. 8. , viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1693574

Daily Examiner
Grafton, 24 February 1945, page 2.

LOCAL & GENERAL

...
Surf Carnival. —
Yamba Surf Club's carnival is expected to attract a record number of lifesavers, including Sydney visitors and all northern clubs. .

The Sydney visitors will bring a number of wooden surf boards to give a display of surf shooting.

Trove
1945 'LOCAL & GENERAL', Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), 24 February, p. 2. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article193820392

The Sun
Sydney, 27 February 1945, page 10.

Surfboard Girl Dodges The Sharks

Pat Trass, first woman to enrol in the Australian Surf Board Association, has been out mingling with sharks, without knowing it.
Fred Pentecost, one of the best surfboard riders on the coast, said: "I've sighted sharks when I've had Pat out on the
board, but did not tell her.
"I just picked up a wave and went inshore.
"If I had told her she might have panicked."
Seven Others Follow
But Pat, who is only 18, is not the type to panic.
Often she has had to swim from 300 yards out when her board capsized.
Seven other women have since enrolled at North Bondi, where there are more than 60 male members.

Pentecost, who has had many encounters with sharks, said:
"A 14-foot thrasher came at me one day, but I got my feet out of the water in time.
"He swam past, but came back again before I could catch a wave.
"Another day a 10ft tiger shark had a go.
"It would have been curtains if I had lost my head and capsized."

Help Rescues

Pentecost went out half a mile to rescue an American of Ben Buckler.
An Australian soldier was seen at the same spot soon after wards and Pentecost went out again.
His board capsized in the heavy sea, but he held on to the man until another surfboard came to their aid.
Association secretary (Mr. F. D. Hoinville) said today:
"The surfboard men are doing a good job,, helping to patrol the beaches.
"Surfboards can get out to rescues when beltmen find it difficult."

Miss Pol Trass, riding a surf board al Bondi.

She was the first woman member of the
Australian Surfboard Association.

Others have since joined.

Miss Trass is only 18.

The association, which hopes to establish branches at all beaches, is seeking affiliation with the Surf Life Saving Association.

Trove
1945 'First Member', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 27 February, p. 10. (LATE FINAL EXTRA), viewed 08 Mar 2019,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231705164

Sunday Mail
Brisbane, Sunday 4 March 1945, page 3.

Surfboard Siren

Miss Pat Trass, first woman member of the Australian Surfboard Association, riding a surfboard at Bondi, Sydney.
She is only 18 years of age.

Trove
1945 'Surfboard Siren.', Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Qld. : 1926 - 1954), 4 March, p. 3, viewed 16 June, 2013,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article98306096

Army News (Darwin, NT
Sunday 11 March 1945, page 4.

Unusual Surfboard.

Flight-Sergeant Jack Keen will race in. Sydney surfboard events this sea son on a board made from the belly tank of a plane shot down in New Guinea.
Keen was in many operational flights over Japanese territory.
Shot down in Geelwink Bay, he bailed out and was adrift for 49 hours in a dinghy.
He was rescued six miles off the coast by an American corvette.
"I built the surfboard in New Guinea, where it helped to save "many lives," says Keen.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
19 March 1945, page 6.

Sport Here and There

...
F. Notting. of Manly, won the open surf board championshs at Bondi yesterday with J. Mayes and J. Thompson in the places.

L. Morris won the surf ski championship from R. Emethain and J. Keene.

R. Young won the Junior surf board title.

Trove
1945 'Sport Here and There . . .', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 19 March, p. 6. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134998202

The Sydney Morning Herald
6 April 1945, page 8.

Life-savers Place Ban On Surfboard Events

An application by the Australian Surf Board Association for affiliation has been refused by the Surf Life-saving Association.

Because of the
                  increasing interest being shown by its members in surf-board racing, a
                  special investigation is being made by the Surf Life-saving

Association into the situation.

The object is to
                  have life-saving clubs cater to a greater degree for
                  their members who require surfboard racing.
 
A committee will
                  report to next months' meeting of the association.
 

The secretary of the Life-saving Association, Mr. G. Millar, said last night the application for affiliation had been refused because the S.L.S.A. constitution provided that affiliation could be granted only to surf life-saving clubs.

Trove
1945 'Life-savers Place Ban On Surfboard Events', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 6 April, p. 8. , viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27931580

The Sydney Morning Herald
21 April 1945, page 11.

Surf Board Club Planned For Every Beach

Formation of a surf-board club on every beach in the metropolitan area is planned by the newly formed Surf Board Association.

Plans for a
                  comprehensive programme of surf board races for next
                  season are under consideration, and championship races
                  in the surf
                  and still water are proposed.
 
 

Despite the threat
                  of the Surf
                  Life-saving Association to discipline any of its
                  members who compete with the Surf Board Association,
                  membership is still increasing.
 
 
 

The secretary of the
                  Surf Board Association.
                  Mr. F. D Hoinville. said last night there was
                  widespread discontent because of the refusal of the
                  S.L.S.A. to grant, the Board
                  Association the right to hold surf board championships
                  open to all.
 
 
 
 

"Surf board racing has
                  nothing to do with surf
                  life-saving," said Mr. Hoinville.
 

"We have 13 members
                  of the S.L.S.A. with us and they intend to retain
                  their membership.
 
Next season they
                  will be given races of a type over which the S.L.S.A.
                  will have no jurisdiction.
 
 
Mr. Hoinville added
                  there was no reason why the S.L.S.A. would not grant
                  the Association the right to hold State and open
                  championships for board
                  riders.

It was the aim of
                  the Association to make surf
                  board
                  racing so popular that interstate and international
                  competitions would be held.

Trove
1945 'Surf Board Club Planned For Every Beach', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 21 April, p. 11. , viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17942233

The Sydney Morning Herald
2 May 1945, page 8.

SURFBOARD MOVE

                  The Surf Life-Saving Association last night decided to form a surfboard section.
 

A special committee
                  suggested that the
                  section appoint its own officials and stipulated that members must be
                  holders of the bronze medallion.
 
 

It also recommended that surf-board carnivals be permited next season.

Commenting on the decision the secretarv of the Australian Surf-board Association Mr D. Hoinville said he approved of the scheme which showed that the Surf Life-Saving Association now recognised that such an organisation is needed.

Trove

1945 'SURF-BOARD MOVE', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 2 May, p. 8. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17939875

The Sydney Morning Herald
10 May 1945 page 9.

BRIGHTER SURF CARNIVALS

                  Tedious rescue and resuscitation competitions at surf carnivals may
                  become fewer as a result of decisions by the council
                  of the Surf
                  Life Saving Association.
 
 

They probably will
                  be replaced next season at some carnivals by more
                  exciting water events.
 
 

The decisions were made during a discussion on a recommendation by a sub-committee that a surf-board section be formed.

Trove

1945 'BRIGHTER SURF CARNIVALS', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 10 May, p. 9. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17935584

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
27 June 1945, page 8.

ROUND-UP OF SPORT

...

Official

The Surf Lifesaving Association of Australia has a surfboard and surf ski committee, which has given full approval to the use of surfboards and skis as part of official rescue gear for next season.

A new "drill"' is to be devised and will be learned by ,surfboard riders who go to the rescue of surfers in distress.

It is proposed to have all surf boards used for rescue work painted with club colour's and numbered so complaints may be made if the boards are being used dangerously.

A strong committee has been elected to look after this side of surf work.
It is' headed by Mr. David Price of Bondi.

Trove
1945 'ROUND-UP OF SPORT', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 27 June, p. 8. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135007127

The Sydney Morning Herald
23 July 1945, page 7.

LIFE SAVING TESTS ON COLD MORNING

On one of the coldest mornings oi the year, surf life-savers at Balmoral yesterday tested .methods of saving lives with the use of surf boards.
The pictures show Frank Adler (Maroubra) rescuing Ray Leighton (Manly).
The top picture shows Leighton being pulled on to the board.
The lower shows Adler paddling the patient back to the beach.

Trove

1945 'LIFE SAVING TESTS ON COLD MORNING', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 23 July, p. 7. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17948161

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
19 September 1945, page 8.

Surfboard Captain

FRANK ALDER, Maroubra Surf Club member, has received a pleasant recognition.
He is Australia's first surfboard club captain.

That is an honour due to the first man to introduce hollow surf boards to Australia.

He passed on his secret to others interested in the art of surfboard riding and in using boards to help save lives.

Alder was.elected surfboard captain at Maroubra a fortnight ago.
The club has a strong surfboard section which has devised a drill for the use of boards in rescues.

The drill will probably be adopted by all clubs.

Maroubra will have-surfboard patrols eight hours a day at week-ends.
Surfboard riders, who have learned a system of signals, will hhsted to the assistance of a surfer in difficulties and support him until a line is

brought from the shore.

Much time can be saved.in n akinn rescues.

Boards should reduce the risk of drownings

No venture in the surf movement for some year has been so worthwhile.

Trove

1945 'Round-up Of Sport', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 19 September, p. 8. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134370748

The Sydney Morning Herald
21 September 1945, page 8.

SURF BOARD PAGEANT

Maroubra Surf Life-Saving Club has decided to conduct a "surf-board
                  pageant" to introduce
                  the new style of beach
                  entertainment agreed to by the Surf
                  Life-Saving Association.

                
 

It will be the first event of its kind in Australia, and follows the style of American beach entertainment.

The club's publicity
                  officer, Mr. Roy
                  Arkins, said last night that the "pageant" would he held on a Sunday afternoon, probably early in December.

Main idea of the function is to introduce surf-board racing to Australians.

Trove
1945 'SURF BOARD PAGEANT', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 21 September, p. 8. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17953893

The Daily Telegraph
Sydney, 21 October 1945, page 28.

Surf-board "Glamor Boys" now ride to the rescue

By BOB GRAVES

One of the lifesavers who will use his board to patrol Sydney beaches this season.

THREE BONDI exponents on their feet for the high-speed thrill of a run to the beach.
At this stage of board-riding a false muscular reflex will send the surfer tumbling sideways
and his board careering madly out of control.
But years of practice gives these men an uncanny sense of balance and a nerveless disregard of danger.

Once the toys of Palm Beach's aquatic play-boys, surf-boards will take an important part in Sydney beach rescues this summer.
More than 300 surf-boards will be used on Sydney beaches, from Cronulla to Palm Beach.
For years suburban councils, beach inspectors, and surfers have regarded the skidding "planks" as a menace to body shooters.
But this year they will save many lives.

The Surf Life Saving Association recently accepted affiliation of a Board Section, whose patrols will be rostered as a part of regular rescue work.
The boardmen will be qualified life-savers and members of surf clubs.
All beaches will have board-riders on patrol outside the breakers.
A whistle or hand-signal from the shore will direct the riders to a "patient" in half the time it will take beltmen to battle through the waves.
"Patients" will be supported on the boards and paddled to the beach.
If the surf is too rough, "patients" will lie on the boards until the arrival of beltmen to take them in.

Dick Chapple, of Bondi, and Ray Leighton, of Manly, first suggested that boards should become official rescue units.
Their requests were supported by Maroubra board veterans, Frank Adler and Roy Arkins.
The Surf Association at first opposed this, but now the boards will be used for the benefit of the public, and body surfers will be prohibited from swimming in areas flagged for surfboard riding.

Old-time surfers recall board-riding in Sydney before 1914, when famous Olympic swimmer, Duke Kahanamoku used a hollow Hawaiian board.
The Duke, who came to Australia to contest swimming titles, showed his amazing prowess on the board to Sydneysiders, and became better known for his board skill than for his swimming ability.
At the time of Kahanamoku's visit, boards on metropolitan beaches were a rarity.
Those who used them had clumsy, short, solid types.
The riders' neck-to-knee costumes hampered their skill, and they had not reached the showy standing-up stage.
They used to lie flat when riding waves.

Solid boards remained the vogue until the early 1930's, although they improved in design.
"Bluey" Russell, of Palm Beach, Lou Morath, of Manly, and Dick Chapple were then riding the "howlers" on long, tapering, solid boards.
Sunbakers marvelled almost as much at their strength in carrying the heavy boards up the beaches as at their superb balance in riding them.
Russell was unbeaten in races on his 20ft. board.

The first hollow board to take part in an official race was used by Sydney's heaviest board-rider, Frank Adler, at a carnival in 1934.
Adler, who weighs 17 stone, found by experiment that a long, hollow board supported his great bulk comfortably.
Fellow competitors laughed at his "queer" board, but respected it after he won the race by 100 yards.
The speed at which Adler's powerful arms propelled his light board made his opponents look clumsy.
Adler found that this new board could catch a green wave, while the solid boards wallowed in the troughs.
Present Australian champion is 20 year-old Fred Knotting, of Manly.
Knotting is called "The Beachcomber" by fellow-surfers.

Amazing Speed

He invariably wears a ragged costume, and rides an old, hollow board that looks a wreck.
Knotting relaxes until the start of a race, but the speed at which he paddles his board through the surf is amazing.
He kneels (most riders lie flat), and his threshing hands throw great scoops of water behind like a paddle-steamer.
Ray Leighton, who finished second' to Knotting last year, and Dick Chapple are regarded as Sydney's best and most spectacular boardmen.
Leighton and Chapple have entertained thousands at Manly and Bondi for many years.
Their nerve, skill, perfect poise, and balance are drawcards when a good surf is running.

Surf Life Saving Association officials think board-riding will be the biggest attraction at coming surf carnivals.
During the 1946-7 season, they expect a team of Hawaiians to visit Sydney.
The following season an Australian team will compete at Honolulu.

Trove
1945 'Surf-board "Glamor Boys" now ride to the rescue', The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), 21 October, p. 28. , viewed 08 Mar 2019,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248023556

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus
9 November 1945, page 12.

PORT KEMBLA CLUB.

(By Sweep).

The heat wave drew large crowds to the beach during the week-end, and once again we were favoured with a good surf.

Vic. White took advantage of this and gave a fine exhibition on the surf board, while Charlie Christerson was seen trying out his new surf ski.

Trove

1945 'SURF NOTES', South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954), 9 November, p. 12. , viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142085774

The Australian Women's Weekly
17 November 1945, page 21.

COMING HOME ON A WAVE AND A BOARD

NEW METHOD OF SURF RESCUE by surfboard
                  demonstrated by crack surfboard rider Ray
                  Leighton, at Manly Beach, N.S.W. 
This season, for the first time, two surfboard riders
                  will be attached to each lifesaving patrol on several Sydney beaches.

                  Method was evolved by members of
                    Surf Board
                  Section of Surf
                  Life Saving Association, N.S.W., who consider
                    the board an effective method of rescuing
                  bathers in difficulties in heavy seas.

                  

                  Trove

                

1945 'COMING HOME ON A WAVE AND A BOARD', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 17 November, p. 21. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55465784

The Sydney Morning Herald
24 November 1945, page 3.

NEW SHARK REPELLENT USED WITH SURF BOARDS

Members of the Bondi Surf Board Club entering the water yesterday with shark repellent bags on the end of cords attached to their hoards. The bags contain copper acetate, which dissolves into the wafer, making it offensive to sharks.
The secretary of the club, Mr. F. I). Hoinville, said that although a recent test had proved the repellent 95 per cent. effective, surfers should not lull themselves into a false sense of security.

Trove
1945 'NEW SHARK REPELLENT USED WITH SURF BOARDS', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 24 November, p. 3. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17960795

Truth
Sydney, 2 December 1945, page 10.

O'Neill Flies Home In First And Last Surf Race

BOBBY JOHNSON STAR OF JUNIORS

                    BECAUSE there were no swim races at Manly Baths yesterday, Frank O'Neill, who has
                    registered
                    record-making sprint times, this season, hied
                    himself to the
                    local beach and won the open senior surf
                    race at the War
                    Veterans' surf carnival.
 

The surf
                    was flat as the proverbial, that O'Neill hit the water in line with proved distance swimmers Rothe Bassingthwaite (Bondi), Alan Fitzgerald (Sth. Steyne) and J. King (Nth. N'been) and a host of others, but the sprint star soon established a clear cut lead and won with 10 yards to spare from Bassingthwaite.

...
Surf Board Race.— P. Knotting (Manly) 1, J. Mayes (North Bondl) 2, B. Mulcahy (Maroubra) 3.

Trove
1945 'O'Neill Flies Home In First And Last Surf Race', Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), 2 December, p. 10. , viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169364416

The Sydney Morning Herald
21 December 1945, page 7.

Misbehaviour At Surf Carnivals

A warning was issued
                  yesterday by the Surf Life Saving
                  Association that
                  misbehaviour by members travelling to and from carnivals will bring expulsion from the association and penalisation of clubs.

Threat of drastic action was contained in a circular issued to all clubs.

It stated that
                  complaints had been
                  received by the association concerning the throwing of mirries of various kinds from lorries transporting

                    surfmen to
                  the carnivals.

The association
                  states that a senior
                  officer of a club must travel in any lorry carrying club members.
 
 
Beach
                  Breathes.

Regarding conduct at
                  carnivals, the circular

                  said: "It is regretted that following the first carnival of the season the referee has had to report
 
adversely on the
                  conduct of some of
                  the competitors, specially in regard to encroachment on the competition area."

The warning related
                  to surfboard
                  and surf
                  ski riders, and emphasised


                  the need for fairness in the novice surf
                  races.
 

"This warning
                  against bad behaviour
                  at carnivals had to be given on more than one occasion last season and the association is determined to stop it," the circular added.

Trove
1945 'Misbehaviour At Surf Carnivals', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 21 December, p. 7. , viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17964097

The Sun
Sydney, 22 December 1945, page 7.

Maroubra's March Past Hat-Trick

                  Maroubra completed a March

                  Past hat-trick at
                  Queenscliff Surf
                  Carnival today.

...
Surf Board Race.- R. Leighton (Manly) 1, J. Stump (Palm Beach) 2, J. Mayes (North Bondi) 3.

Trove

1945 'Maroubra's March Past Hat-Trick', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 22 December, p. 7. (LAST RACE), viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229028170

The Sun
Sydney, 24 December 1945, page 8.

Swimmer Hit By Surf Board

Reginald Ellis, 23,
                  of Woonona-road,
                  Northbridge, suffered
                  a deep scalp wound and shock when he struck a surfboard that was being propelled by another swimmer at Freshwater Beach early today.
 
 

 
Three members' of
                  the surf club, of
                  which he is a member,
                  helped him from the water and took him to the clubhouse.
 
Later Manly Ambulance took him to Manly District Hospital.

Trove
1945 'Swimmer Hit By Surf Board', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 24 December, p. 8. (LATE FINAL EXTRA), viewed 08 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229029059

The Telegraph
Brisbane, 28 December 1945, page 4.

SEEN IN THE SHOPS

...

Surf boards, which can be used as a float, and which arc suitable for the young and not so young, are priced at 56/11.

Trove
1945 'SEEN IN THE SMOPS', The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), 28 December, p. 4. (CITY FINAL LAST MINUTE NEWS), viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188765324

Truth
Sydney, 30 December 1945, page 9.

TWO SHARK SCARES AT SURF THRILLER

LUCKY ESCAPE IN BOAT MIX-UP

                  TWO shark alarms, one as the field of nearly 100
                  rounded the buoys in
                  the novice surf
                  race, a rescue of a beltman who collapsed in the senior R. & R.,
                  a boat crash, and three competitors injured, made yesterday's surf carnival at North Steyne the most eventful for
                  years.
 
 

BRONTE official Jim Yeoman said:

'It's the most treacherous surf since the 1940 carnival on this beach.

...
Surf Board Race: J. Mayes (North Bondi) 1, J. Stump (Palm Beach) 2, R. Leighton (Manly)

Trove

1945 'TWO SHARK SCARES AT SURF THRILLER LUCKY ESCAPE IN BOAT MIX-UP', Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), 30 December, p. 9. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169356677

The Newcastle Sun
31 December 1945, page 1.

BALANCE: Shooting the breakers with a surf-board is a sport that is daily gaining new adherents.

V. J. Smith of Newcastle Surf Club shows how it should be done.

Trove
1945 'Beach Scenes', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 31 December, p. 1. , viewed 08 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article156650682