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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1949

1,616 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 50 of 81

Bowls Howard Whitehead Farewelled

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon, July 30, a good number of bowlers turned up for play and to bid farewell to that grand old bowler, Howard…

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Swimming More Carnivals Than Usual

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.--More carnivals than usual would he staged this reason the secretary of the N.S.W.A.S.A. (Mr. S. Grange)…

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Claims For Empire Boxing Titles

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--Boxing promoter Jack Solomons is trying to arrange a fight between Australia's Dave Sands and the Empire middleweight champion, Dick Turpin, for September 6…

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Next Sunday's Football

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 8

Next Snunday, at the Jetty Oval, Coffs Harbour will play Green Hills. After last Sunday's brilliant football,…

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Bowls Played by Blind Soldiers

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 8

Mr. Sid Marsh, who visited Coffs bowling green last weekend, coaches blind ex-servicemen in the Sydney…

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Upper Orara Football Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3

Next Sunday Upper Orara footballers will take two teams to Coramba in the Orara League Competition…

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Demonstration at Moree Races

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3

TAMWORTH, Thurs.--Cries of "robbers, thieves, take them down" rose after the posting of the judge's placings in the…

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Rugby League Maclean Fighting For Semi-Final Place

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 5

FIGHTING a tough battle to gain a place in the final four of the All-River first grade competition, Maclean will have a big test against Grafton All Blacks at Maclean to-morrow. Maclean, which has three…

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Football Dorrigo Downed 10-3

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

Last Sunday the A grade team journeyed to Glen Innes and again endeavoured to lift 'the prize of the North'—the Robinson Shield…

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Local and General Football Team

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

The following 10.7 football team will represent Dorrigo v North 10.7 team at Dorrigo to-morrow:—Short, Caisley, Coombes, Baldwin, Bonfield,…

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Horses Arriving To-morrow's Races

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 8

There is every indication that fields for to-morrow's races at Coffs Harbour will be large. Many of the horses entered have…

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Tennis Tourney Finals at Week-end

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

Last week-end Dorrigo Tennis club continued its club handicap tourney. Most divisions reached the semi-finals…

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FOOTBAll. Annual Fixture As Burt Memorial

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 8

So successful was the Hugby League football match last Sunday between teams representing the Northern and…

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District Sporting Activities Football Discussion on Future League Competitions

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 8

There was much discussion at the meeting of Coffs Harbour Rugby League at the monthly meeting on…

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Indian Cricket

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 6

LUCKNOW (United Provinces).—The Bareilly Cricket Association here is staging an all-Ind a Gandhi Memorial Cricket Cup Commence in October…

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Rugby League. All-River Series Draw

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 5

The second last series of fixtures in the Clarence All-River Rugby League competition will be played to-morrow…

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CRICKET. Southern Zone Club

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 5

About 20 players attended last night's meeting of the Southern Zone. Cricket Club at South Grafton…

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Greyhound Racing Sydney Galloper Will Be Tested

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 5

THE Sydney galloper, George Valley, will be the back marker in the Special Handicap event, to be staged by the Grafton Greyhound Racing Club at this afternoon's meeting. George Valley finished…

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Cricket Team All Out For Nil

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).--In a cricket match between police teams from Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick, the Stratford…

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Athletic Club at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 5

MACLEAN.—Maclean Athletic Club formed at a meeting on Thursday aims at providing boys, youths and young men with…

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