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JIM PIKE

Pike, James Edward (Jim) (1892–1969)

by John N. Molony

This article was published in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, 1988 online in 2006

ames Edward (Jim) Pike (1892-1969), jockey, was born on 4 September 1892 at Newcastle, New South Wales, eldest child of Charles Pike, Newcastle-born butcher and later racecourse attendant, and his Victorian wife Jane Isabella, née Liddell. Jim often

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