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Blue Mountains · Sport

Sport, 1926

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Football Flashes Delhi Soccer Team Week-ending in Katoomba

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 3

To-morrow morning a Soccer team from H.M.S. "Delhi" will katoomba to play the local lads in a match on the show Ground…

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Tennis Devotees Hold Annual Meeting

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 6

Last Wednesday, members of the Blackheath Tennis Club met in Council Chambers for their annual powwow…

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Football Flashes Lithgow Comp. Mountains Should Enter

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 5

Hon. Secretary Martyn announces that the Lithgow District Rugby League has launched the Hennessy Cup competition, conducted on the…

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Football Flashes Federals Beaten

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 4

In the Lithgow competition on Saturday, Katoomba Federals went under to Co-operative by 12 points. Federals were unlucky not to…

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Mountains Golf

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 July 1926 · page 5

Mr. and Mrs. Whiteman are duly installed at the golf links; the former as groundsman, and his wife in charge of the golf house. White…

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Boxing

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 July 1926 · page 5

Famous to-day; forgotten on the morrow. Truly no star sets so suddenly an that of "an athlete, After his defeat by the sturdy negro, Harry…

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Football Flashes Pottery Beats Federals

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 July 1926 · page 5

Saturday's fixture in the Lithgow Rugby competition was between Lithgow Pottery and Katoomba Federals. The match was played on…

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Tennis Presentation at Casino-de-luxe

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 July 1926 · page 2

The presence of the Will James Orchestra and the presentation of the big tennis prize drew a full gathering to the Casino-do-Luxe on…

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Sporting Bowls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 5

If the weather keeps fine, the week-end should be an interesting one on Katoomba bowling green. The final of the club championship…

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Football

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 5

Saturday's second fixture in the Rugby competition was between Federal 11 and Old Boys, the former winning by 9 to nil…

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Origin of Golf

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 8

"Who started golf?" asked a long beginner, as he approached the nineteenth hole, after equalling his first bogey…

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Tennis at Hazelbrook the Annual Meeting

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 9

There was a spirit of enthusiasm at the annual mooting of tho Brook Club on Monday evening. After formalities, the annual…

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Lawson Tennis Club Good Year Recorded

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 6

Pride and enthusiasm marked the annual meeting of the above club, held on Friday last. The Rev. J. Marshall Brown presided and the…

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Tennis

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 5

The Lawson and Woodford Tennis Clubs met on the former courts on Wednesday last in a friendly match, when the home team won by 5 sets…

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Sporting Football

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 5

On Friday afternoon, the Wentworth Falls Public School boys played a friendly match with the Laura Public School, on the former's ground…

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Football Flashes Old Boys Beat Leura

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 3

Saturday's fixture on Katoomba Show Ground was between Old Boys and Leura, and resulted in a walk-over for the former by 40 points to 6…

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Football Flashes Portland Beats Federals

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 3

In the Lithgow Rugby competition on Saturday, Portland Colts met Katoomba Federals on Katoomba Show Ground, and after a hard tussle…

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Leura Cricket Club Annual Meeting

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 6

There was a good attendance of willow-wielders at the annual meeting of Leura Cricket Club, held in Haswell's saloon last Tuesday…

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Tennis

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 August 1926 · page 4

Bathurst Tennis Club was sending a team to Katoomba to-morrow to try out the local Tildens. A reception had been aranged, with a night…

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Football

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 August 1926 · page 4

At the League executive meeting on Wednesday evening, it was decided to abandon the Blue Mountains competition owing to the lack…

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