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Sport, 1923

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Cricket Chatter

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 January 1923 · page 4

The competition will be resumed to-morrow, whon the Wanderers will more Katoomba on the latter wicket, with Messrs, McKay and…

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Holiday Cricket Katoomba Scores in City

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 January 1923 · page 6

A fairly solid eleven took the field on Now Year Day to uphold Katoomba's prestige against the N.S.W. Postal Cricket Club. It was the…

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Cricket Chatter Competition Matches

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 4

After a lapse of several weeks, competition matches were resumed on Saturday. Springwood and Wanderers are holding their opponents…

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Cricket Chatter Competition Matches

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

On the Leura wicket the home team scored a comfortable win ove Wentworth Falls. The scores were: Loura, first innings, 135; second…

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Golf on the Hills The Blackheath Links Big Success

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 8

"The Blackheath golf links are not the beat in Australia; we do not pretend that they are. But by their position, they provide an added…

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At White City With the Tennis Team

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 January 1923 · page 2

For country tennis enthusiasts, once a year all roads lead to Double Bay or, as was the case this year, to White City Courts Rushcutter's…

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To-day's Tennis And To-morrow's Dei Voluntus

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 January 1923 · page 4

This should have boon a column article dealing with the big tournament that should have commenced at 0 o'clock this morning, and…

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Tennis As Boost Katoomba's Opportunity Will She Grip It?

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 February 1923 · page 3

Added to its undoubted success from the purely sports aspect, the tennis championship meeting at Katoomba which came to a…

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Diggers' Swimming Carnival

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 5

Katoomba Municipal Baths will, to-morrow afternoon, be the scene of a memorable happening, for the programme, just printed at the…

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Competition Cricket Springwood's Big Score

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 4

Whatever may be the opinion of others, Wanderers are fully convinced that Springwood's team is a tough proposition to meet on their…

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Competition Cricket

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 4

On the local wicket, Kaloombu maintained their advantage over Wentworth Fulls, and won by an innings und 45 runs…

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Swimming Carnival For Diggers' Fund Sydney Experts Help

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 2

If all the crowd who watched last Saturday 'morning's carnival at the Katoomba Baths had each paid even a modest "trey;" the fund for the…

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Cricket Chatter Competition Matches

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 5

Both competitions are now drawing to a close, and, it may be mentioned in passing, never has such interest been evinced in cricket us…

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Cricket Chatter End of the Competition

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 5

Wanderers had a comfortable win at Wentworth Fails. The home team carried the total to 83, leaving the visitors 40 to win, a score that was…

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Cricket Chatter

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 March 1923 · page 4

The Association team to tour Victoria will leave on Monday. Good support has been accorded by towns-people, and it is now, up to the…

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Team of Champions for Swimming Carnival

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 March 1923 · page 1

The lessee if the Municipal Baths, in collaboration with Mr. Jim Eve (representing the N.S.W. controlling Association), has arranged for…

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Golf Boom. at Wentworth Falls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 6

On Saturday morning an 18 hole stroke handicap was played on the Wentworth Falls golf links and resulted: W. J. Sheppard, 92, 20—72;…

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GOLf COURSES. In Mountains Centres. Expert Forgers Katoomba

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 7

Residents und property-owners on the Blue Mountains are under a deep debt of gratitude to the live publication, "Sea, Land, and Air," for…

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High Level Golf. Popular Mountains Course Another Viewpoint

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 March 1923 · page 2

In a recent "Echo," an excellent article was re-printed from a leading magazine on golf on the Blue Mountains, together with a write-up…

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Katoomba Golf Links Soon Ready Sir Harry Lauder to Open

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 1

There is every hope—approaching cortainty, in fact—that the Katoomba Golf Club, the baby Mountains organisation, will quickly…

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