Sidney Charles Pearce, better known as Sandy, was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and boxer. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. In 1907 he played for New South Wales in the first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union. He made his first national representative appearance in 1908.
Pearce in 1910
Pearce front 2nd from right (striped collar) with the 1908 Kangaroos
Pearce (3rd row 4th from right) Pioneer Kangaroos 1908–09
Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.
Double Bay ferry wharf
Charles Amos Messenger – Champion Sculler of Victoria, Australia and pioneer boatbuilder of Double Bay
Dally Messenger 1908 Civic Reception Scroll. It contains the words "When we review the names of the Athletic Champions produced by New South Wales in the cricket, rowing, swimming and boxing world we feel that no name has added more glory to the fame of our country than your own".
Knox Street
