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Central Coast · Sport

Sport, 1917

37 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 2 of 2

Football Match

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 7 June 1917 · page 4

A team representing Epping Juniors visited Gosford on King's Birthday, and played a watch on Waterside Park against the Boys' Home team…

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Football

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1917 · page 2

A team representing Ourimbah visited the Boys' Home last Saturday and played a game of Rugby League Football. The Home boys are Union…

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Football

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 June 1917 · page 4

A football match was played at the Boys' Home on Prince of Wales' Birthday, the visitors being the Gosford lads under 16 years. The match,…

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Gosford Races. Entries for Tuesday Next

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 June 1917 · page 7

Flying Handicap, six furlongs.— It's Funny, Dunoon, Show Girl (imp.), Lady Clarit, Lancer Plume, Chantry, Cesarionette, Silver Thread, My Palm,…

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Gosford Races

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 5 July 1917 · page 7

Last Tuesday's race meeting at Gosford was the second best attended in the history of the Club, and the afternoon's sport was excellent, large…

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Football

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 14

The Ourimbah men met the Boy's Home Team last Saturday, 21st. inst, on the Farm Grounds and defeated them by 11 points to 5. During the…

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Wyong Park Races. Entries for Tuesday Next

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 9

Maiden Handicap, six furlongs.— Keffyl, Queen Carmen, Rignold, Antonio Maid, Jack Orzil, Cairo, Silver Belt, Granspark, Liege, Prince…

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Wyong Races

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 2 August 1917 · page 4

Wyong Park Races, held on Tuesday, the last day in July, brought the 1916-17 racing season in this State to a close. There was an excellent…

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Gosford Races

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1917 · page 4

In the absence of the customary train service, the Gosford race meeting, fixed for today (Thursday), has been postponed…

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Old-time Racing

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1917 · page 12

The first races held in the Coloni's took place at Parramatta on April 30, 1810, and the first race was between a horse called Parramatta and another…

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Races Off

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 30 August 1917 · page 11

It is announced that the races which were scheduled to be held by the Wyoug Park Racing Club, the Wyong Park Pony Club, the…

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Racing Association

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 October 1917 · page 8

A representative meeting of the Provincial Registered Racing Clubs (Menangle Park, Wyong Park, Gosford, and Kembla Grange) was held…

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Gosford Races

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 8

Gosford Racing Club resumed operations yesterday, and the meeting was well patronised by metropolitan racegoers. Rain threatened in the…

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Cricket Scores

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 15 November 1917 · page 2

The highest individual score in first-class cricket, 424, was made by A. C. MacLaren, for Lancashire, against Somerset, at Taunton (England, in…

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Brisbane Water History. The First Cricket Match

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1917 · page 6

Mr. James Buscombe, now in his 77th year, saw the first cricket match played in Brisbane Water district in 1858. The match, played in Hely's…

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Gosford Races

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1917 · page 8

Yesterday's race meeting at Gosford was one of the best attended since the inception of the Club, and altogether the outing was the most…

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A Racing Suggestion

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1917 · page 6

It would not be a bad plan to introduce in the programme of a race meeting a race to be ridden by apprentices only. Such a race would…

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