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Blue Mountains · Sport

Sport, 1926

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Good News Cricket Club Forming

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 August 1926 · page 3

The meeting convened for the formation of a cricket club at Wentworth Falls was well attended, and a fine feeling of sportsmanship…

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Football

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

A friendly scratch match will be played on Sunday afternoon on the Show local players will engage…

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Golf Notes

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 3

At Wentworth Falls, the best results of the Eighteen Holes Bogey Handicap were:—E. S. Crane (6), 1 down; Dr. Tas. Wilson (8), 3…

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Sporting GOLF

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

Katoomba golf links are assuming shape and style under Caretaker Whiting. The greens, fairways, and surrounding country are all receiving…

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Sporting Scholastics Reviews Cricket Club

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 7

Willow-wielders, under the above banner, foregathered on Friday evening for the fourth annual meeting of Katoomba School of Arts Cricket…

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Katoomba Athletic Club

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 9

Messrs. S. Foran (secretary), T. Kempster (treasurer), S. Shiells, R. Gillogley, R. Meeks, J. Starkey, V. Shiels, R. Camphell, W. Kelly,…

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Football

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 5

The match for to-morrow will be Sargents v. a Mountains representative team; kick-off, 3 p.m. The team to represent the…

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Sporting Tennis

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 5

The final of the Bat Simons trophy will be played on Sunday. The Leura Methodist tennis club played all over representatives of the…

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Sporting Bowls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 September 1926 · page 5

Another championship hats been finished on Katoomba green. It hung fire far too long, owing to "unforeseens" that Invariably crop up…

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Cricket

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 September 1926 · page 5

The employees of Katoomba Council have formed a crickekt club, and intend taking part in the competition this season. Already there are over…

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Football

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 5

"The Sun" Newspaper Football Club visited Katoomba last week-end, and lowered the localites' colors by 5 to 2, after one of the best games…

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Cricket

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 5

To-morrow at 3 oclock, the annual meeting of the Blue Mountains Cricket Association will be held in Katoomba School of Arts. It is to be…

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Cricket Association Annual Meeting Delegates Optimistic

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 September 1926 · page 3

Delegates from Katoomba, Leura, Blackheath, and Wentworth Falls, congregated at Katoomba School of Arts on Saturday afternoon, to attend…

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Five-minute Interviews No. 73 the Cricket Enthusiast

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 September 1926 · page 2

Mr. George Thomas, a native of England, and now of Kogarah, is a keen cricket enthusiast. A contemporary of Grace, Spofforth, Boyle,…

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Golf Club Water Authorised Starting the 18 HOLES

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 2

At Tuesday's meeting of Katoomba Council, a letter was received from Katoomba Golf Club, urging the Council to reconsider the question…

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Cricket Chatter

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 4

Wea[?]worth Falls had a runaway win against Katoomba Council on Saturday, and scored a four-point win, Though outclassed, the…

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New from all Blue Mountains District Centres Hints on Tennis "Hitting the Air"

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 6

It is always a good plan for the tennis beginner not to attempt too many strokes at first. It is far more important, to be able to play a really…

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Cricket Chatter Club Secretaries

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 October 1926 · page 3

WHILE "The Echo" is anxious to assist to the fullest extent in popularising all sport on the nine Mountains, it will be realised that this…

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Golf Hundred and Fifty Years Ago

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 3

How the Scottish National game began at Leith and Blackheath, is told in an interesting article by Ber-nard Darwin in a Home magazine:—…

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Bowls-de-luxe Katoomba's Fine Showing Last Two Heads Fatal

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 5

It was bowls-de-luxe last Saturday, when the popular president of the N.S.W. Bowling Association, Mr. John Scott, brought five Association…

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