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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1925

1,278 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 40 of 64

Tennis

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 2

A Coff's Harbor scribe, writing in the "Advocate," says: The local club was privileged in having a representative team from Dorrigo on the local courts…

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Golf Notes

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 2

Last Saturday's bogey competition was won by W. G. Cook with a score of 6 up. This player's handicap will certainly come down with a rush. J. Cummins handed…

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Cowper-brushgrove Football

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 3

The return match Old Buffers v. Brushgrove, will be played on the Oval on Saturday next. On the last occasion the [?]eams met there was a narrow margin in…

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To-day's Football Match

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 2

The Dorrigo Football League abandoned the idea of engaging a special train to convey its representative team back from Grafton on Sunday…

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Dorrigo Golf Club Meeting of Members

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 5

A meeting of members of the Dorrigo Golf Club was held in Mr. M. Feros's room on Wednesday evening last. A letter was received from the…

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Golf Mixed Foursomes Championship. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 4

The golf carnival was continued to-day when the mixed foursomes championship of Australia was decided. H. Morrison and Mrs. Newton Lees (Australian…

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Inter-league Football To-day's Big Matches Both Teams Sanguine

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 4

All roads should lead to the Showground this afternoon when the final of the "Aunt Mary's Baking Powder' Cup interdistrict competition will be played. The…

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Rugby Union

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 1

University defeated Manly 18 to 16. Glebe-Balmain defeated Eastern Suburbs 23 to 10. North Sydney defeated Y.M.C.A. 9 to 5…

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Bowls Grafton Club Matches

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 1

The Grafton bowling green rinks were fully occupied on Saturday afternoon and some progress was made with the club competitions…

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Boxing Sailors in Action. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 1

The Stadium programme consisted of several six-round contests between sailors of the American fleet and Melbourne…

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Swimming Arne Borg's New Record. Copenhagen

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 2

Arne Borg put up a new world's record for 1000 metres, his time being 13min. 17. 3-5secs…

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First Grade Matches. Rugby League. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 1

South Sydney (Wearing two, Quinliven two, Lodge two and Lawrence tries, Blair two goals) defeated St. George (Sanders and Tye tries, Carstairs goal) by 25 to 8…

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Golf Grafton v. South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 2

A very enjoyable afternoon's golf resulted on the Grafton links on Saturday from the visit of the South Grafton players to engage in a match with a Grafton team…

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Some Game! American Football Head and Body Padded Something Like a Free Fight. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 3

A crowd of 10,000 attended the Sydney Showground yesterday when an exhibition of football as played in America was given by teams from the U.S.S. Colorado and…

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FOOTBALL Cup Final at Grafton Dorrigo League v Lower Clarence Exciting Game Won by Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 2

On Saturday, in a game of thrills, the Dorrigo League team defeated a representative Lower Clarence thirteen by 11 to 8, and in so doing won the Aunt Mary's…

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J. O. ANDERSON Easy, for V. Richards Helen Wills Defeated New Lady Tennis Star. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 3

There were several sensations at the Seabright tournament to-day, aud Vincent Richards provided one by decisively defeating J. O. Anderson (Aus.) in the…

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Athletics Cross-country Championship. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 1

The Australian amateur five-mile cross-country championship, run over the steeplechase course at Randwick racecourse, was won by C. B. Weeks, of St…

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Tennis Grafton v. South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1925 · page 5

Advantage was taken of the bank holiday yesterday to arrange a match between South Grafton and the Grafton City Club on the courts of the latter…

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Lawn Tennis Tilden's Trial. New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1925 · page 5

The New York Lawn Tennis Committee declares that Tilden's act in giving press interviews is a violation of the amateur rules, but excuses him on the plea of…

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A Football Stalwart Mr. C. E. Hollis

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1925 · page 5

A well-known football identity in the person of Mr. C. E. Hollis accompanied the Dorrigo team, which defeated the Lower Clarence at Grafton on Saturday…

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