The Sport was a newspaper published in Adelaide which apart from articles on racing, football, cricket and boxing etc., carried items of general interest, satire and political comment.
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History
The Sport advertised itself as the only independently owned sporting newspaper in South Australia.
From 1911 (or earlier) it was printed and published by Frederick Joseph Jennings (c. 1882 – 18 November 1948) at Jennings Printing Works, 72 Flinders Street, Adelaide, for the proprietors. Fred was owner of several noted racehorses: Cadelgo, one of those involved in a triple dead heat at Cheltenham in 1927, and Argosy Boy that ran a dead heat with Anotto in 1919, and paid ₤301/17/ on the playoff.
In June 1915 it republished a number of articles from the recently revived Adelaide Truth.
From 1937 it was printed and published by W. Kirkby Robinson, offices 16 Kensington Road, Rose Park. William Kirkby Robinson (1894–1976) founded the Angaston Leader, first issue 24 July 1918. He was married to Agnes.
Digitization
The National Library of Australia has digitized photographic copies of most issues of The Sport from 1 April 1911 (Vol. 1, No.43) to 30 October 1948 (Vol. 34, No. 1757), and may be accessed via Trove.