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Blue Mountains · Sport

Sport, 1929

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TENNIS Win for 'Falls Wentworth Falls

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 3

The tennis match played at the Wentworth Falls courts, on Saturday last, between Lawson and Wentworth Falls, resulted in a win for…

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BOWLS Orange v. Katoomba

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 3

On Saturday, May 4, three Katoomba rinks went to Bathurst to try conclusions with Orange. The match was played on a…

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Football League Meeting Important Business

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 9

Those present at the meeting of the general committee of the B.M. Rugby League on Wednesday night, were: Messrs W.Smith (president),…

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Competition Football Federals Down Leura Old Boys' Good Showing

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 3

The fine weather of last Sunday attracted a fair crowd to the Showground to see the opening matches of the B.M.D. Rugby Football League. The League could not arrange for a visit from an outside…

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Cricket Social Meets With Success President Thanks Dolors Leura

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 8

Those who attended the Leura Cricket Social in the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening last had an enjoyable evening…

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Football Management Committee

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 2

The weekly meeting of the Blue Mountains Rugby League management committee, was held in Mr. W. J. Smith's hairdressing saloon on…

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Golf Associates Competition To-morrow

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 2

Miss Long, who looks after the interests of the Katoomba associates, wishes all 36-markers to know that a 9 holes stroke competition will be…

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Big Football Tooth's Club Coming Interesting Grade Matches

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 2

The announcement that Tooth's Brewery Club is to visit Katoomba on Sunday next has been received with satisfaction by local fans, who…

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Football in the Mud Leura's Reversal to Form Blackheath's Hard Fight

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 3

The first round of the reserve grade competition reach its second stage over the week-end, when Federals met Blackheath Rovers, and Leura met Old Boys. Both Leura and Blackheath, who were beaten the…

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Cricket Club Fine Credit Balance Preparing for Next Year Leura

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 7

A meeting of Leura Cricket Club was held in Haswell's Saloon on Thursday night. May 2, Mr. Haswell presiding, it being the winding…

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Big Match Rugby League

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 10

Football fans have a treat in store on Sunday, when two brilliant matches will be played at the Showground…

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Football Rakings

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 3

Watching the district team at work on Sunday against Tooth's team, one was surprised to see how well the locals combined and threw…

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Fractured Collarbone Mishap at Football

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 3

Bruce McGregor, a school boy attending Katoomba Intermediate High School, was playing football on Thursday when he met with a…

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Big Football District Teams Good Showing Old Boys Again

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 10

The Blue Mountains Rugby League provided a veritable feast of football at the Showground on Sunday last, when two star matches were played. The district team bent a team from Tooth's Ltd., Sydney, and the Old Hoys won their match…

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This Week's City and Mountains' Sport Way Down South Travelling With Racing Team Land Flowing with Milk and Money

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 3

If ever the owner of a racing Team in any country district desires a change of climate with the possibility of more than paying his way, I will, without hesitation, recommend a trip to the South Coast meetings during Christmas and New…

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Mountains Football Comes Into Its Own Bathurst Beaten a Brilliant Game Locals' Wonderful Attack

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 3

The B.M.D. Rugby Leagues district team has added a shroud scalp to its belt, and one of which it has every reason to be proud. By convincingly beating Bathurst combined team on Sunday it has placed itself on a level with any first class…

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Took a Risk ! Rugby League Lights

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 2

The action of the Blue Mountains Rugby League in erecting electric light extensions at the Showground before making an application for…

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Golf Russell Hawke Memorial Cup This Week-end Visitors Eligible

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 11

At Katoomba links this week-end the above trophy, donated by Mayor Russell Hawke in honor of his soldier son killed in the War, will be…

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Way Down South When Races Were Postponed an Unexpected Banquet

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 9

Rain! rain! rain! The country soaked for miles around, the trees dripping and endless shower. Half a dozen racehorses and half a dozen attendants, apparently stranded in uninviting country, miles front anywhere…

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This Week's City and Mountains' Sport Holiday Matches Eastern Suburbs Fine Display Sparkling Football

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 9

Although Eastern Suburbs, to use a Yankee term, "put it all aver" the Blue Mountainstream at the Katoomba Showgrounds on Monday, there is no reason for the Mountain boys to feel ashamed of themselves…

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