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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Sport

Sport, 1954

2,989 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 150

Swimming Notes

National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 4

The Bathurst City Amateur Swimming Club competed in its first intertown carnival at Dubbo on Sunday, and taking into consideration the…

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Coursing men named

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 12

Bathurst Mechanical Coursing Club has announced the names of two men who on…

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BOXING Dunne Beats Reeves

National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: At the Sydney Stadium tonight Charlie Dunne proved too strong for Jimmy Reeves. Reeves took a lot of punishment and…

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Table Tennis Diggers Are Table Tennis Premiers

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 3

Minor Premiers of the Lithgow Table Tennis Association's summer competition, Diggers last night won the premiership,…

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Police Squad Raid Southern Golf Club

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

GOULBURN, This Afternoon. Sydney's 21 Division police today declined to disclose the name of a man arrested at…

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Orange Mecca for Motorists at Easter Rally and Car Racing Trials driver here for talks

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

Next Easter’s Monte Carle-type car rally will make Orange nationally known and will bring visitors from many parts of Australia, Mr. Peter Antill, well-known trials driver said yesterday. If the rally is successful it is a certainty to be repeated next year…

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Many records smashed at athletics

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 12

Three track and five club records were smashed at Wade Park on Sunday when Orange Amateur Athletic Club held the first day of…

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Bowls Notes

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 4

Play during the holiday period was confined mainly to social matches. However, a few competition games were…

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Night Tennis

National Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 2

The entries for the second division of the Bathurst Town Courts night tennis competition will close on Saturday. If sufficient teams nominate,…

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Decision Soon on Lithgow Coursing

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 16

An inspection of the Lithgow greyhound track on January 16 will decide when…

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Big Golf Thompson in Form

National Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 5

LOS ANGELES, Tuesday: peter Thomson, Australian Open Golf champion, shot a five-under-par 66 yesterday in the fourth round of the…

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Blayney District Tennis Competition Results [?]

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 5

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Cricket News Barry Team to Play at Orange

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 6

The following team has been selected to represent Barry against Gladstone Hotel at Pinnacle Road, Orange, on…

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Portland Golf Notes

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 5

Sunday's four ball stableford aggregate was won by P. Old-field and B. Chadwick 63 points with J. McHugh and G…

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Bowls Tempo Livens Up

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 10

In a closely contested game in the final of the B grade singles championship of Gulgong…

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Oberon Tennis Notes

National Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 6

With only two matches to be played in the night tennis competition the point score stands: A Grade: Essington 18, Hazelgrove…

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Oberon Tennis News

National Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 6

Mr. B. Ryan, of Beverley Hills, a tennis coach, who was to have visited Oberon from February 11 to 15 to give lessons, has advised that he has been…

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Week End Bowls at Coolah

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 20

At the Coolah bowling green on Sunday, further games in the A and B grade singles championships were…

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Draw Arranged to Finalise Bowls Games

Central Western Daily · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 12

Because sufficient progress is not being made to ensure completion of club championship games, the match committee has arranged a draw for the next two week-ends…

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Tennis Champion in New Role

Central Western Daily · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 12

Davis Cup hero Lewis Hoad shows eight-year-old Tony Stone, of Glebe Point, how it is done. The Hoad fam[?]y lives at Glebe Point, and Lewis and Tony are great friends. Tony is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stone, Jnr. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Tom…

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