With the nation still reeling from the summer of sport, it is a good time to display some of Little Darwin's sporting memorabilia , the latest being the 1978 45rpm record put out during Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket period , l977 to l979 , which shook up and reshaped the game globally . Our copy found in Townsville .
The above 1981 autographed first day cover displaying caricatures of famous Australian sportsmen in stamps by the late newspaper war correspondent , artist and cartoonist Tony Rafty of Sydney, supplied by Magnetic Island researcher Gary Davies . Those shown are jockey Darby Munro, cricketer Victor Trumper , tennis ace Sir Norman Brookes and billiard champion Walter Lindrum.
