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31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025

Clement ‘Clem’ Hill. South Australia & Australia 1892-1923. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Hill to ‘The Chairman, V.A.T.C. [Victoria Amateur Turf Club], Melbourne’. Dated 17th November 1937, Hill is applying for ‘the position of handicapper to your Club’ and quotes his previous experience stating ‘For 14 years I acted as a stipendiary steward in South Australia and for 9 years I have [been] handicapping for the S.A. [South Australia] Jockey Club & the Adelaide Racing Club, the two leading racing Clubs in South Australia’. Nicely signed ‘Clem Hill’. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition.
Clem Hill is listed as player/cap number seventy four in the list of Australian Test players, playing his first Test match for Australia against England at Lord’s in June 1896. Hill toured England on four occasions with the Australian team from 1896 to 1905, North America in 1896, South Africa in 1902/03, and New Zealand 1904/05, made forty nine Test matches appearances for Australia, and was captain in ten Tests 1910-1912. A left-handed batsman, he scored 17,213 first-class runs, highest 365no, at an average of 43.57. On his retirement from cricket he started a career in horse racing administration and was successful with his application to the V.A.T.C. in 1937 as a handicapper.

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