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Blue Mountains · Sport

Sport, 1921

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Tennis Club Concert Young Bloods at Leura Excellent Entertainment

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 January 1921 · page 2

The fact that the concert wan postponed twice, and that it was a dirty night when the event did come off, may have had something to do with…

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Bowls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 4

The Ryde bowlers came to the Hills for the Howie Cup on Wednesday afternoon, but, the Mountaineers had a day-out, and…

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Cricket Chatter Interest on the Wane

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 5

Hendersons' Hitters will meet a team from Hoffnung's (a big city firm) at Katoomba, on Wednesday next…

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Cricket Chatter Inter-Club Matches

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 5

Katoomba C.C. will meet the N.S.W. postal eleven on the Redfern oval on Easter Monday. The engagement has been fixed by teh respective executives…

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On Side! Season's Rugby Soldiers Early Start

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 3

Within a couple of months or so, contending thirteens will be stripping for friendly frays on the football field, and with last year's boom…

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Cricket Chatter Farcical Decision Caesar Up to Date

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 4

"Scorer" hears the "Executive" has met at last, and that executive consisted of three Katoombans and two Heathites. Leura, Wentworth…

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Cricket Chatter To-Morrow's Match

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 5

The protest lodged by the Heathites (although won by the Katoomba Club) has made the locals determined to "deliver the goods…

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Local and General Katoomba and Elsewhere Tennis Social

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 March 1921 · page 4

Tuesday, 15th instant, is the date selected by the tennis players, and their friends for a social evening in the Town Hall. Tickets are selling…

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Cricket Chatter Closing Chapter

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 2

Bright sunshine greeted the meeting of the two "gun teams," Blackhealth and Katoomba, in what may be properly called the final of the…

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Late Cricket Notes Active Academy Xi

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 4

Katoomba cricketers will meet Croydon Park on the local wicket to-morrow. Play will commence at 1.30 a.m. sharp. The following team…

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Easter Golf Mountains Links Dooming

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 8

Over the Easter holidays the golf links of the Blue Mountains were largely patronised. At Wentworth Falls the shield, presented by…

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Big Bowls Katoomba Easter Carnival Most Successful to Date

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 2

Ideal weather conditions during Easter assisted materially in making this year's bowling tournament the most successful, yet hold under the…

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Blue Mountains Football First Annual Meeting Enthusiastic Sports

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 5

Over 70 of the sporting fraternity crowded into the King's saloon on Monday evening to honor the above event. Mr. S.C. Bartle (president)…

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Bowls and Bouquets

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 5

Owing to the rain, neither Petersham nor Burwood put in an appearance for the Howie Cup last week. Both tests were…

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Football Notes

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 4

Emu Plains colors for the football competition will be blue and gold. The second mooting of Mountalus delegates will be held next Monday…

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Cricket Chatter

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 4

The flannelled fools of the Mountains are now giving way to the mudied oafs, and "on the ball" will be the cry of the hour in lien of…

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League Football On the Mountains Big Season Assured

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 3

About 20 delegates assembled iu the King's Saloon, on Monday evening for the first meeting of the '21 season. All clubs were represented…

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Inter-Club Tennis Katoomba Defeats Roseville

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 5

On Saturday last, the representative of Roseville visited the Mountain capital, and slashed and sliced to their heart's content against a…

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Football Flashes Prelim. Points and Practice

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 4

The season's prospects worn never brighter, and 1921 should mark a new era in Mountain football. Messrs. Bartle, Smythe and…

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Football Notes Season's Fixtures

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 4

The initial drawn and final placeing of the matches for the first round of the Blue Mountains Rugby League Competition is us follows:—…

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