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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1949

1,616 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 45 of 81

Schoolboy Breaks Leg At Football

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 6

Whilst playing football at the Primary School on Tuesday Robert Forbes, 8 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Forbes, of…

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Football Bellingen 10 Stoners Down

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

the Dorrigo league 10.7 team An interesting game took place on the local Rec. last Saturday afternoon when a visiting team…

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Well Known Personalities At Races

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

Mrs. E. P. Holland, wife of the president of the C.R.J.C., is smiling happily on the success of the carnival and the congenial company. Mrs. John Power, wife of the president of the Brisbane Turf Club is in the centre chatting with Mrs. Reg Inglis,…

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Races Again On August 6

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 8

Because the Kendall Racing Club has found it impossible to race on Saturday, August 6 the date has been taken over by…

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Rugby League. Upper Clarence Donates £10 To Schoolboys' Fund

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 4

Wednesday night's meeting of the Upper Clarence Rugby League management committee decided to donate £10 towards the fund for the schoolboys'…

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Greyhound Racing Stiffer Test for Mt. Neville To-day

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 5

GRAFTON'S brilliant greyhound, Mt. Neville, will be tested this afternoon by a stranger field than the one he outclassed on Tuesday afternoon when he established new figures for 440 yards…

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Part Of Large Crowd At C.R.J.C July Racing Carnival

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 5

Part of the large crowds which have attended the Clarence River Jockey Club's 1949 July carnival. The picture, taken from the members' grandstand, shows Raywin winning the First Progressive Handicap…

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At Grafton Races

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 3

Mrs. C. R. McKerihan, wife of the president of the Rural Bank, with her brother Mr. M. McCallum, of Broadway, Sydney, who was carefully scanning the totalisator indicator on Cup Day…

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Miss Borthwick Retains Golf Title

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.--Miss Pat Borthwick retained her N.S.W. women's golf title at Australian Club to-day, beating Mrs. E…

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Tennis Players Go Into Exile

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 5

GSTAAD (Switzerland), Friday (A.A.P.).--Czech Davis Cup players Jaroslay Drobny and Vladmir Cernik have rejected a Czech…

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Rugby League Vital First Grade Game at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 5

KEEN interest will be centred on the All Blacks-Ramblers first grade match at the Grafton Showground to-morrow, as the result will have a vital bearing on the All-River competition minor premiership…

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Grafton Races Tomboy Chosen To Win Again

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 5

TOMBOY, impressive winner of the Barnes Handicap on Thursday, appeals as the likely winner of the Elworthy Handicap, chief race of the C.R.J.C. fixture at Grafton to-day. Tomboy had to come round…

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Points Score In Amateur Athletics

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 5

The Grafton Athletic Association will conduct a further series in its points score events to-day. South Grafton runners, Rick…

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World Tennis Tourney

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 5

STOCKHOLM, Sun. (AAP).-- South Africa's Eric Sturgess and Eustace Fannin beat Sweden's Torsten Johansson and Australia's…

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Rugby Union Win for South Africa

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 5

CAPETOWN, Sun. (AAP).--Fifteen points from five penalty goals by Geffen, a world record for a Rugby Union test, enabled…

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Greyhound Racing. Champion Dogs To Clash In £200 Match Race

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 6

A £200 match race over 520 yards, between the North Coast champion. Mt. Neville and the Wentworth Park champion, My…

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ATHLETICS. Double Sprint Win To Max Godbee

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 2

After a period of staleness, Max Godbee, atoned for his recent defeats over the sprint distances by winning the 75…

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Festival Tennis

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 5

Grafton City Tennis Club has advised the organising secretary of the Jacaranda Festivals Committee (Mr. L. Buckley) that it will this year again…

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Australian Tennis Successes

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Mon (A.A.P.).--Australians won the women's doubles and mixed doubles in Sweden yesterday. Mrs. Thelma Long and Miss Joyce…

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Catholic Tennis Club Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 8

In perfect tennis weather the gents' doubles tournament was conducted last Sunday and provided sterling…

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