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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1930

1,465 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 74

League Football Mid-Rivers Association Annual Meeting Arrangements for Coming Season

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 April 1930 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Mid-Northern Rivers Rugby League Association was held at Macksville during the week-end. A most successful meeting eventuated, all…

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Cricket

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 7

Owing to the pitches, of both Fisher Park and South Grafton oval being covered with sawdust for the football season the final of the A grade schools'…

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Grafton City Tennis Club

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 4

The opening day at the Grafton city tennis courts for the coming tennis season is Saturday next. Play will commence at 2 p.m., and a cordial invitation is…

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Rugby League Saturday's Matches Some Interesting Fixtures

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 7

Following upon the successful, and incidentally surprising, opening of the Clarence River Rugby Football League's season last week, keen interest is being…

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Wakefield Out Rugby Union Tourists. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 7

Wakefield has withdrawn from the Rugby Union football team which is to tour New Zealand and Australia. He sustained an injury in January, but it…

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Tennis Lismore Carnival Easter Championships

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 7

The Northern Rivers tennis championships will be held at Lismore during Easter holidays. Teams from the following towns are expected in the men's…

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Boxing Sharkey and Schmeling Matched. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 7

The State Athletic Commission to-day sanctioned a fifteen round boxing match between Jack Sharkey and Max Schmeling at the Yankee Stadium, on June 12…

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Golf Mower for the Green Other Improvements to Be Made

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 7

Members and associates of Grafton Golf Club will be glad to know that the committee has decided to purchase a motor mower for the greens. This machine will…

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FOOTBALL Dorrigo Dist, Rugby League Annual Meeting

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Dorrigo District Rugby League was held at the Carlton Cafe on Friday evening last. There were about 30 persons…

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Football

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 2

The football season will open tomorrow afternoon when a match will take place on the Dorrigo ground between two teams selected from the various…

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Cricket

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 3

The playing of the semi-finals of the Coffs Harbour Cricket Association's competition this year seems to be surrounded by an air of…

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Lower Bucca. TENNIS

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Lower Bucca Tennis Club was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Lower Bucca, on Monday last…

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Local and General. Cricket

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 2

Waratahs and Dorrigo met on the local ground last Saturday. Scores: Waratahs 45, Dorrigo 105. The match will he finished to-morrow. This…

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Rugby Union Team Another Player Injured. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 7

Owing to a broken collarbone the Irish forward Crowe, has been withdrawn from the Rugby Union touring team, and H. M. Bowcott, a Welsh player, will replace…

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Football Codes. in the United Kingdom

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 1

In a letter to the "Courier," Bellingen, Dr. N. S. Muihearn writes interestingly of the various football codes in the United Kingdom:—…

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A Fine Worker Rugby League Enthusiast Mr. W. R. Weiley's Achievements

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 6

A fine record of achievements is disclosed in the annual report of the Mid Northern Rivers Rugby League Football Association which appeared in…

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Cycling South Grafton Races Abandoned Insufficient Nominations the Cause

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 7

The cycling carnival which was to have been held at Smith Grafton to-morrow has been abandoned owing to insufficient nominations. A special meeting of…

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Rugby Union Football

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 April 1930 · page 8

Mr. L. G. Dreise has convened a meeting at Coutts' Grossing, with the object of forming a Rugby Union Club in that centre. Several enthusiasts in Coutts'…

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Rugby Union Team. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 April 1930 · page 8

P. D. Howard, of Oxford, has with drawn from the Rugby Union team, for business reasons. H. C. Jones, of Lancaster, replaces him…

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Football at Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 April 1930 · page 8

Indications point to another successful football season at Dorrigo, and it is expected that five senior teams will take part in the League's shield games. Two…

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