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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Sport

Sport, 1947

3,222 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 14 of 162

Golf Notes Week-End Winners Score In Easy Style

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 4

Last weekend's golf was remarkable for the fact that the winners of the various' competitions all scored by big margins…

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Boxing

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Melbourne light weight Alby McCarthy (9.71) stopped a sequence of wins of Mickle Tollis (9.13) of Newcastle, when he won on…

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Bathurst Rugby League Election of Officers

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

The annual meeting of Bathurst Rugby League was held last night, the president, Mr. E. Ross pre[?]ding. The annual report was read by the…

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Golf Results of Associates Events

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

Details of the associates Saturday afternoon 12 hole stroke event were:-- A Grade: Mrs. W. Margison, 59, 16,…

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Where Tennis Aces Thrilled Crowds

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

THIS “shot” of Wade Park tennis courts was taken during one of the Orange Easter tennis tournaments. Wada Park courts leapt into top sporting news in Orange last night when Gardner Mulley and Billy Talbert (Americans)…

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Cricket [?]Win to Blayney

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

[?]defeated Pintiacle Koad [?] runs on the first innings. [?] match played at Blayney, [?]day…

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Cricket. Victoria Clinches Sheffield Shield

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Victoria today clinched the 1946-47 Sheflield Shield premiership beating N.S.W…

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Social Cricket Bathurst Taximen Defeat Yetholme

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

Bathurst taxi drivers cricket team had en enjoyable day at Yetholme when they played a social cricket match against that village. The…

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Tuition for Juniors Blayney Football Club's Plan

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

BLAYNEY Football Club is anxious that every consideration should be given to the development of junior talent during…

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CRICKET Keen Tussle In Power station Competition

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

Lithgow and Newcastle Power Station cricket teams played their second drawn game this season when they met Belmore Oval, Sydney,…

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Peep at Tennis Aces. McGRATH Had Lost His Collar Studs; Pails to Rescue

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 5

Dinny Pails was putting lumps of sticking plaster on his thumbs and feet . . . Vivian McGrath was calling…

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ATHLETICS Members Prepare For New Season's Pointscore Series

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

Sunday afternoon's outing was again confined to trial runs in preparation for the opening of the new pointscore competition next…

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Tennis

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 16

The final of the "Bring-your-own-partner" Handicap decided on the Gulgong tennis courts last Sunday, resulted in a win for P…

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BOWLS Kandos Down Lithgow

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 8

Our cricketers did little good for themselves on their visit to Mudgee on Sunday last, but thank heaven we have a bowls team. The Kandos…

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Mudgee Races

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 1

Nominations for this coming fourteenth meeting on Saturday, 22nd February, close with secretary George Priddle on Saturday week,…

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Dunedoo News Dunedoo Bowls Notes

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 20

Two games were played on the Dunedoo green last Saturday afternoon. On No. 1 rink, Stan Blyton (C) and Herb Thomas showed the…

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BOXING Ike Williams Beaten CHICAGO

National Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 4

The biggest boxing upset in years occurred last night, when an unknown New York fighter, Gene Burton, decisively outpointed world lightweight…

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Rugby League Bathurst Rejects Brazil Plan At Annual Meeting

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 4

Last night's annual general meeting of Bathurst Rugby League turned down the "Brazil Plan" for an inter-town club competition in Group…

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"Phoney Amateurism" in Tennis MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 6

At the interstate conference of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia in Melbourne tonight, delegates strongly criticised what they called…

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Gulgong District News Bowls Singles Championship Semi-Fmal

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 16

Jim Evans and Bert Sturgess met last Saturday in the semi-final of the singles championship and a very close game…

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