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Sport, 1939

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Rugby Debacle Gosford's Easy Win

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 4

With the opposition completely at its mercy throughout the whole match, Gosford had a runaway victory from Toongabbie in the second…

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Ladies at Tennis

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 2

..A ladies tennis tournament on Acacia courts on Wednesday was won by Mrs. H. Place and Miss Audrey Taylor…

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Tennis Notes

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 25 May 1939 · page 3

The Gosford District Tennis campetition has reached a stage where forecasts can be made of the likely finalists in the various grades. The…

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Ourimbah News Ouribmbah Football

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 25 May 1939 · page 8

Fielding its strongest team of the season. Ourimbah played hard clean football on Sunday against Morisset. but were unable to hold the…

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Golf Chatter

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 4

The play on Saturday was the first round of the Sterland Golf Cup, a stroke handicap of 36 holes, extending over two days…

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Brilliant Football Gosford Scores 14 to 5

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 7

Gosford had to play brilliant football in the third round of the Challenge Cup competition on Sunday to defeat the strong and heavier…

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Golf Chatter

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 8

The final round of the Sterland Cup was played on Saturday, and the winner of this handsome trophy turned up in the redoubtable Noel…

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Gosf0rd Defeated Marist Bros. Too Strong in Thrilling Rugby Match

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 4

Both Gosford Rugby League teams on Sunday went down, to the strong Marist Bros.' teams. Play was of a particularly high…

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Bowls Opening Gala on

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1939 · page 1

Saturday afternoon and night! Venue: Gosford bowling green. Official opening by Mr. Walter Pidgeon, President of the New South…

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Golf Chatter

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 4

On June 4, the boys journeyed to Hamilton and played a match with the lads of that village. The links are on the racecourse, where almost…

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Ourimbah Football

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 7

Owing to the non-appearance of Enmore Ionas, there was no football on Grahame Park on Sunday, and most of Gosford's players…

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Bowling Green Opened in Pagantry and Sunshine "Inculcate Brotherhood of Bowls to Nations and there would be no War"

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 7

Brilliantly spectacular, but with, an aplomb fitting the dignity of bowlers, the Gosford Bowling Club's green was opened on Saturday afternoon by Mr. Percy W. Pidgeon, President of the New South Wales Bowling Association. The President cut the ribbon giving entry to the green, and after Mrs. Dwyer, wife of Dr. S. K. Dwyer, the Club's President, had. sent up the first "Jack,"…

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Associates' Golf

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1939 · page 8

The first round for Mrs. Mortimer's Trophy was played on Tuesday by the Gosford golf associates, and the final will be decided on…

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Football Notes

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1939 · page 6

Gosford Football Club has a full programme of matches for the competition season, and on Sunday will meet a strong Leichhardt side in the…

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Rugby Tie

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 7

There was only one match on Grahame Park on Sunday when Gosford played a very strong combination, Emmco, to a 11 all draw, after a…

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Golf Chatter

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 4

In the Noel Harris Trophy, played on Saturday, an 18 hole Stableford, Ben Bannister had a very decisive victory. From a 14 par he turned…

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Schoolboy Football

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1939 · page 4

Gosford Training School second grade rugby league team played Gosford High School on the former team's ground. Result:…

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Golf Chatter

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 4

In the first round of the Presiden's Trophy—a 36 holes par handicap,—played on Saturday, there were 25 entrants. The course was…

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Qualifying Trials Coursing Club's Move

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 4

Interest centres on the first evening's programme of greyhound coursing trials to be staged at the showground on Thursday evening…

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Tennis on Mountain

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1939 · page 6

A very successful tennis tournament, organised by Miss D. Baines, to obtain funds for sports equipment for the Mountain School, was…

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