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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Sport

Sport, 1935

3,656 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 183

Tennis Crawford Triumphs. Australian Championships MELBOURNE

Leader · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 1

Crawford beat Perry In the [?]oal of the Australian singles tennis Championship yesterday, showing the great[?]ss of his old form…

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Girls Did Better Vacational Swimming Class Pass of 83 Per Cent

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 2

The annual vacational swimming class conducted by the Department of Education at the S.A.F. pool concluded on Saturday…

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Tennis Impressions Bathurst Country Week Players Oddity of Outsize Panama

National Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 2

Interesting impressions of leading country players at present in Sydney for the annual Country Week tennis carnival and sidelights on their…

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Bathurst Cricket Ron Biilmann Routs Farm Ewers' Splendid Innings Macquarie's Good Position

National Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 4

Bowlers were in the ascendancy on Saturday when the Bathurst district cricket competitions were continued in hot and trying conditions and on…

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Athletics. State Championships. Tide Holders Fail. SYDNEY

Leader · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 4

Four i[?]holders including the incomparable Metcalfe. Teddy Hampton and Jack S[?]ves crashed from their championship pederals…

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Country Tennis No Play Yesterday SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 1

The Country week tennis carnival matches, which were to have been ; decided to-day, have been postponed until to-morrow (Tuesday) owing to…

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Big Tennis English Women Succeed Melbourne

National Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 2

The English women stars, Misses Dearman and Lyle, experienced an easy win in the final of the Australian, women's doubles at the Kooyong…

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£10,000 CLAIMED Rule Naylor Against Canterbury Racing Club SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 4

Following upon the removal of Rufus Theodore Naylor, the well known city racing and sporting identity, from the Canterbury Park race…

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Bowls Lithgow Defeats Orange

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 4

Flags and pennants were, flying from the flagpole at the bowling green on Saturday, when Orange came to Lithgow for an A. pennant game…

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Tennis Hardcourts Tourney

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 4

The committee of the Bathurst Hardcourts Association decided at a meeting on Monday night to admit two new teams to the summer…

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Boxing. Friday’s Excellent Programme

Leader · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 4

Great Interest is being man[?] in Friday’s programme at the St[?] Stadium not only in the main ho[?] but in every contest from the opening…

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T. Races

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 2

Motorcyclists generally will welcome the news that the Orton Park circuit has been made available by the Abercrombie Shire Council for…

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Night Tennis Benefit Tourney

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 2

To benefit that true sport, Freddy Ford, who has been of much assistance to the Diggers, a "popular night" will be conducted on the…

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Tennis Players Film Ban Lifted London

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 3

The Lawn Tennis Association has endorsed the Czecho-slovakian proposal to delete a section of the international rule 23 prohibiting…

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Tennis. Country Carnival. Orange Successes. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 3

Orange No. I men’s team has qua[?] for the knock-out round in the country Tennis [?]. The Orange women’s players won their first match…

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THE [?] Victoria Park Races. Selections by T[?]

Leader · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 4

The following [?] should run prominently at Victoria Park this afternoon:— Fourt[?]-Two Handicap,1st [?]…

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Cricket Crowds Big Falling Off MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 4

The poor attendances at the Sheffield Shield matches and club cricket fixtures was one of the topics discussed at last night's meeting of the…

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Country Tennis Bathurst Players Inform Strong Hawkesbury Team Beaten SYDNEY

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 3

One of the best matches witnessed at the country week tennis carnival since the opening was that between Bathurst men's No. 1 and…

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Tennis Stars Acting For Films U.S.A. Association Opposed New York

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 1

The movement to rescind the rule prohibiting amateurs from receiving compensation for appearing in lawn tennis action films was not endorsed…

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Athletic Club Result of Women's Events

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 2

The blub closed Die point score competition, on Sunday afternoon. It was run four weeks and resulted in I. Williams and G. Bishop dead-heating for…

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