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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1974

280 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 14

Sawtell Women’s Bowls News

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 26 September 1974 · page 4

Tuesday was a busy bowling day for our Club. Our No. 3 Pennant teams went to Coffs and…

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Sawtell Golf Club Associates’ News

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 26 September 1974 · page 4

Well ladies the championships are over and the winners were Airlee Thompson and Audrey Rowland from Rene Gunn and Ronda Thompson…

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Bowls Day to Aid Purchase of “Rubber Ducky”

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 26 September 1974 · page 1

The Sawtell Bowling Club will conduet a bowls day this Sunday to help raise funds for the Sawtell Surf Club. The Surf Club is in the…

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Sawtell Bowls

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 3 October 1974 · page 4

The Sawtell Bowling Club will be host to a party of 44 bowlers from the Bankstown R.S.L. Club who will arrive by plane next Saturday morning and…

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Golf News

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 3 October 1974 · page 2

A cold wind and a threat of rain caused a fall off in the fields for Thursday and Friday 9 hole comps, but Saturday and Sunday we were back to normal…

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Sawtell Women’s Bowls News

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 3 October 1974 · page 4

Forty members participated in the inaugural carnival for the “Marie Fraser Fours” last Thursday. With the addition of a…

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Surf Club Bowls Day Huge Success

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 3 October 1974 · page 1

The Bowls Day held to aid the Sawtell S.L.S.C. on Sunday last was well attended and over $500 was raised to assist in the purchase of a “rubber ducky”…

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Sawtell Tennis Club Notes Results of Coffs Harbour and District Tennis Association championships: a Grade Evevnts

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 3 October 1974 · page 4

Singles: Trevor Drury d Bob Cunningham 2/6, 6/2, 6/3. Doubles: Bob…

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Sawtell boys in district cricket side

The Bananacoast Opinion · Thursday 3 October 1974 · page 12

Two Sawtell boys have been chosen in a primary school district cricket team to play in…

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Sawtell Golf Club Associates” News Heigh-ho and all that ladies it is publicity time again

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 3 October 1974 · page 2

Wednesday 39 associates played an 18 holes versus par. The winner was our…

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Rain stops bowls

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 9

The monthly mixed bowls competition conducted by the Woolgoolga Women’s…

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Tricky green placements test even the best golf exponents Golf Week ’74

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 12

Eighteen tricky green placements among 6014 metres of beautiful tree-lined fairways awaits competitors in this year’s record breaking $8000 North Coast Open and Festival of Golf. The sub-tropical Coffs Harbour layout is for…

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Tournament part of major golf circuit

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 3

The $8000 North Coast Open is included among the major tournaments on the Australian professional golf circuit. It is one of 13…

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Golf Club Caters for Family Needs

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 7

A family which plays together, stays together. And any family which has tried it knows this to be true. At the Coffs Harbour Golf Club, you can be…

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Visit From “Big Guns” Golf Week ’74

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 11

Coffs Harbour, on the throes of staging its richest ever tournament in 1975, will receive a visit this week from a senior executive of…

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Five Girls Entered in 1974 Golf Queen Contest

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 10

Five Coffs Harbour girls have entered the 1974 Miss Festival of Golf Queen contest which was [?]dged on Monday night. The five girls will attend the clubhouse on Thursday night when the queen will be crowned at a special ceremony compered by local television personality…

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Waltons’ $500 Pro-am Attracts Record Field Golf Week ’74

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 3

Most leading professionals will arrive in Coffs Harbour by Wednesday morning to compete in the $500 Waltons Pro-Am, the traditional curtain-raiser to the…

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$7000 Car As Prize for a Hole-in-one Golf Week ’74

The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 8 October 1974 · page 7

The $8000 prizemoney is not all professional golfers will be competing for in the Open this year. A series of special prizes for exceptional…

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Sawtell Bowls

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 10 October 1974 · page 4

Despite the uncertain weather over the weekend, the visiting bowlers and their wives from the Bankstown Composite Flying Group many of them…

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Golf News

Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 10 October 1974 · page 4

A little drop of rain, separated the golfers from the pikers — I was one—and only a field of 56 on Saturday — must have been a lot of spectators in…

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