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Sport, 1926

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The Psalm of Golf (After Longfollow—A Long Way After)

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

Tall me not in weekly papers, Golf is but an old man's game, That its strokes are senile capers Unfit for youthful frame…

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Sporting Bowls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 November 1926 · page 5

The game has been booming in this bright sunny weather, and every day matches, either among localites or of inter-club or district flavor, have…

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Cricket

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 November 1926 · page 5

Everetts and Katoomba met on the Falls Reserve on Wednesday afternoon. The emporium batted first, Jack Reid taking first knock…

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Cricket Chatter Club Secretaries

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 November 1926 · page 3

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

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Bowls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 November 1926 · page 5

Matches of interest since last issue included:—Buchanan's Four, 28 beat. Hobbs, , 20; Davies, 22, beat Thomas, 10; Ayling, 26, beat Trusty,…

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Swimming Club

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 November 1926 · page 4

A large and enthusiastic attendance met at Soper Chambers on Thursday night to form a swimming club at Kattoomba. After discussion…

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Mountains Golf Katoomba

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 November 1926 · page 5

It was good to note the sparke on Katoomba links over the week-end. The caretaker has been working under difficulties on tho greens,…

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Bowls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 4

The Petersham players arrived on Wednesday and the drought broke immediately. The presence of the suburbanites on the local green is…

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Life and Bowls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 8

Killing time, I sat on the hillside on Saturday, watching Katoomba bowlers at play. It was a cosmopolitan crowd, writes "Idler," and it…

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Mountains Golf KATOOMBA

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

Competitions open to visitors will be held on Katoomba golf links over the holidays. The recent rains should work wonders with the greens and…

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Juvenile Tennis Revel Light Hearts at Lawson

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 December 1926 · page 5

On Wednesday evening, the Literary. Institute Hall presented a gay scene, scores of young Lawsenians having possession, all looked in…

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