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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1925

1,278 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 37 of 64

Golf South Grafton Club

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 2

Members will play a stroke competition this afternoon. The draw will be available at the club house at 1.45.p.m. Many members and associates were…

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Boxing Dempsey and Wills Matched. New York

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 2

Jack Dempsey has signed up to fight Wills for the heavyweight championship. Tex Rickard, in making this announcement, said a meeting, with the negro…

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Tennis Patterson and Hawkes. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 5

Playing at Bropkline (Massachussets) Patterson (Aus.) defeated Fritz Meriur, last year's winner of the Longwood-Bowl tennis singles tournament, in the fifth…

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That Harwood v Ramblers Football Match

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 4

Sir,--Allow me space in your columns to express on behalf of the Harwood Football Club absolute disapproval of a report of the above match which appeared in…

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Football Team to Meet New Zealand. Some Drastic Alterations. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 2

M. Turnock, of the Far North Coast, has been selected to go into training for the match between New Zealand and New South Wales at the Cricket Ground next…

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Golf

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 2

The Bellingen Golf Club on Tuesday night decided not to pay the retaining. fee of 76 per head for the retention of the North Coast Golf Association's…

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Boxing Vaudeville and Boxing at Stadium. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 2

A mixed programme of vaudeville and boxing was presented at Sydney Stadium last night. The principal fight was between Harry Young (10.4) and Leo Wax…

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Rugby League. Sydney, Sunray

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 2

South Sydney (Blair and Wearing tries, Wearing goal) beat University (O 'Rourke goal), by 8 to 2. Glebe (See two, McGrath, Meadows,…

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Coursing the Waterloo Cup. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 3

In the final course of the Waterloo Coursing Cup, Ezic 64 on beat Open Fire…

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Bowls Grafton Club Matches Attwater Trophy

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 1

Two more games in connection with the Attwater Trophy Competition were played on the Grafton bowling green on Saturday…

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English Racing. Eclipse Stakes. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 1

The Eclipse Stakes, run to-day, resulted: -- Polyphontes (Wragg) 1, Zambo (H. Beasley) 2, Diophon (Carslake), 3. Thirteen started. Betting: 114 Polyphontes,…

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Tennis Kingsley Beats Heath. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 3

In the Frinton semi-finals Kingsley beat Heath (Aus.), 6 -- 2, 6 -- 4, 6 -- 3. Heath produced something like his old form in the second set and started the third well,…

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Brilliant Football. Toowoomba Defeats Ipswich. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 2

After a brilliant exhibition of Rugby League football Toowoomba, at Ipswich on Saturday, defeated Ipswich by 51 to 17. The half-time scores were: --…

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New Cricket Tests Search for Best Team London

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 1

Fender, the English cricketer, broadcasting from 2LO, advocated continuous cricket test trials in order to obtain a representative eleven to meet the…

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Football England Again Wins Fourth Soccer Test Australians Like Novices. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 2

England won the fourth soccer test by 5 to 0. The visitors gave, a brilliant exhibition and at times the Australians appeared to be lost. The attendance was…

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Racing Carnival L.V.J.C. Annual Meeting Gay Vixen and Longfast Dijon at Last

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Grafton L.V.J.C was held on Saturday in beautiful weather. There was a good attendance. Although fields were small, the…

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Golf Practice Record Broken. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 4

In the practice round for the Open Golf Championship of Australia which begins on Wednesday, Rufus Stewart, the well-known Adelaide professional, this…

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Died Playing Football. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 5

During a football match at Mildura between Yatpool and Main Pumps, O'Callaghan, captain of the Yatpool team, was awarded a free kick after a scrummage…

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Palings Used Riot at Football Match. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 5

At the conclusion of a football match between Canterbury and Dandenong at Dandenong on Saturday, a riot occurred. Just before the final whistle a crowd of…

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Boxing Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 1

As the King's Theatre last night Monson (11.1) outpointed Tommy Uren (11.2)…

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