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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1953

1,282 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 65

Plunge Paid Off At Gosford Races

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A last-minute plunge paid off when Slander won the Flying Handicap, at Gosford races to-day. Slander, ridden by W. Hogg, beat Claro…

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Rugby Union Trial Matches

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed.--The New South, Wales Rugby Union has rejected Queensland R.U's request for a N.S.W…

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Football Club Plays Lodge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 7

The South Grafton Football Club cricket team will play South Grafton Buffaloes Lodge on Sunday at McKittrick Park…

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Holiday Bowls

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 7

Grafton Bowling Club will play a competition on Monday for the C. B. Bailey Memorial trophy…

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Women's Bowls Championships

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 8

Two very important finals were decided in the Coffs Harbour Women Bowling Club's annual championship series on…

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Bowls Title Play

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 8

Additional ties in the Coffs Harbour Bowling Club's annual championship series were decided this week. Three matches…

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Adelaide Tennis

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday--In to-day's State doubles tennis championship, New South Wales juniors,…

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Week-end Golf Programme

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 8

The programme arranged for Coffs Harbour Golf Club over the weekend includes an 18 holes versus par event on…

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New Officers For Golf Associates

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 8

At a special meeting of the Golf Club associates on Tuesday Mrs. R. Ryan was elected social secretary in place of Mrs. S…

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Mixed Greyhound Races Sought

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 4

Greyhound trainers want a change in the type of programme staged at Grafton greyhound racing fixtures…

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Cricket Woolgoolga and Sawtell Hold Competition Lead

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 8

In a week-end of supremacy of ball over bat competition leaders Woolgoolga and Sawtell kept themselves at the…

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No Ballina Races To-day

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 January 1953 · page 5

No races will be held at Ballina to-day because rain has affected the track. To-day's programme will…

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Cricket Ground For Olympic Games

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 January 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—There was no doubt that the Melbourne Cricket Club's offer of the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the 1956 Olympic Games would be seriously considered at next Monday's…

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British Football

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday, British football: League, Division One: Aston Villa v. Chelsea 1-1, Bolton…

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Seixas Heads Tennis Visit

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 5

VIC Seixas, the American Davis Cup team captain and top ranked American player in 1952, will head the…

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Re-design boxing gloves, say doctors

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 5

The journal of the American Medical Association calls for an all-out effort--including a…

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Cricket Win To Woolgoolga

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 5

COFFS HARBOUR, Sun.--Rain stopped play in Coffs Harbour district cricket competition matches…

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Inter-District, Cricket Match

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 5

The North Coast Cricket Council representative matches between C.R.C.A. and Lower Clarence…

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Ballina Races On To-day

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 5

LISMORE, Sun.--Officials of the Ballina Jockey Club inspected the track this afternoon and declared it fit…

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Regatta Will Celebrate Its 100th BIRTHDAY

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1953 · page 1

To celebrate the 100th birthday of the Frederickton (Macleay River) regatta former world's champion sculler…

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