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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1925

1,278 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 64

Soccer Football Visiting English Team the Selected Men. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1925 · page 5

The English soccer team which is to tour Australia, is as follows:--Hardy (Stockport) C. Payton (Spurs), T. Whittaker (Arsenal), B. Charlton (Exeter) C…

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Dominion Students. Athletic Union Formed. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1925 · page 5

Porritt has been elected president and Sholl secretary of the Dominion Students Athletic Union, formed at the conference held at Oxford on Saturday. The…

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Football

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1925 · page 6

'Vic." Armbruster, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Armbruster, of Mullumbimby, the well-known international footballer, who at one time played with the Mullumbiinby club,…

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School Swimming

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1925 · page 2

"Learn-to-Swim Week" activities were interfered with on Wednesday last, when heavy rain set in. Eatonsville reports that only one child…

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CRICKET . VICTORIA v. Wanganui. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1925 · page 5

The match between Wanganui and Victoria was continued to-day. Mayne declared the visitors innings closed at 8 for 321 (Miller scoring 115). In the second…

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CRICKET. England’s Sixth “Test.”

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1925 · page 2

When this issue is grinding through the press, England (weather permitting) will be in holts with South Australia in the last match of the…

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Tennis Hawkes Manager of Davis Cup Team. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1925 · page 4

J. B. Hawkes has been appointed manager of the Australian Davis Cup team. ADD SUNS TIPS, HIGHWEIGHT Second Division.--Loquat, Bardoleur,…

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Clarence River Rugby League

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1925 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Clarence River Rugby Football League will be held, on Thursday in the "New State" rooms at 8 p.m., when the balance-sheet and…

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Bowls Grafton Club Matches

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1925 · page 2

Good progress was made on the Grafton bowling green oh Saturday with several of the club competitions and a number of interesting rink games were also played…

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Boxing. De Leon Defeats Gordon. Great Contest at Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1925 · page 2

At the Sydney Stadium last night, Gavini de Leon (8.11¼) defeated Harry Gordon (8.11) after sixteen exciting founds. The sixth round was one of…

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Close Finishes. South Grafton Races. Persian Silk and Golden Jack

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1925 · page 1

The South Grafton Jockey Club's meeting on Saturday was productive of some very interesting racing. The weather remained fine, and the course…

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Spring Racing. the Cypher Breaks Down. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 5

J. Cameron, owner of The Hawk announced to-day that the gelding would start in the Doncaster Handicap, all going well in the interim, of course…

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Tennis Grafton City Club Last Night of Tournament

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 5

To-night, weather permitting, the night tournament of the Grafton City Tennis Club will terminate. If the standard of play shown earlier in the tournament,…

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Boxing Queries

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 2

“Wager“ writes : “Dear Mr. Editor—There has been a lot of boxing talk out at our camp, and a few arguments about the late Les…

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Football Soccer Tests. Not on Cricket Ground. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 4

An attempt was made by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Wearne) to-day to get the Rugby League, which holds a lease of the Sydney Cricket Ground, to…

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Cricket

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 3

What’s up with England? Gilligan dropped his batting mainstays when he left out Hobbs and Sutcliffe for the South Australian…

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Warriors' Football Club

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 2

The animal meeting of the Warriors' Football Club was held at Mr.M. Feros's on Friday evening last. The election of officers resulted as…

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Brisbane Races Postponed. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 4

The Q.T.C. meeting to-day had to be postponed owing to heavy rain. The meeting will be held on Thursday…

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Boxing Wills and Gibbons Matched. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 4

Wills, the negro heavyweight, and Tommy Gibbons, will meet in a fifteen round bout on May 29, providing there is no possibility of a title match with…

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Local and General Transmitting Cricket News

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 4

In telling the Story of the tour of the English Eleven, the Postal Department transmitted 1,013,000 words by telegraph from the various cricket grounds in…

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