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Broken Hill & the Far West · Sport

Sport, 1951

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Stop Press Flemington Races

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 12

Criterion Handicap. — Lady Havers 1, Peak of Arran 2, Echo Star 3. Stanhope Handicap.—Bahadur 1,…

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Good Cricket By Schoolboys

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 3

The final match between local schoolboy teems on the Zinc Oval during the holiday period produced good cricket yesterday. Once again batsmen…

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Zinc Cricket R. Tozer 106 Not Out

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 5

In the match being played at the Zinc Oval between Workshops and Mill, the former have 170 on the board for the first Innings. Tozer and…

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Sunday Cricket

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 7

Duke of Cornwall had a comfortable win over Globe Hotel at Block 10 pitch yesterday. Scores were 233 to 153…

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Sunday Cricket

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 11

The Palace Hotel defeated the Sturt Club last Sunday by the narrow margin of three runs in a cricket match. Palace has won…

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£100 Stolen at Tennis Match

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 10

Albury.—A wallet containing £100, belonging to Pancho Gonzales, was missed from Dinny Pails' clothing after they had…

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Cricket Draw For Final Round

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 1

At the meeting of the Match and Permit Committee last night details for the final round of all Cricket League competitions were discussed and set out…

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Final Round Of Cricket Matches Open

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 8

Final round of the Barrier District Cricket League's competition, which will start next Saturday, was arranged last night by the match and permit committee…

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Swimming Team

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 1

Mr. A. J. Wells, secretary of the Silver, City, Swimming Club, today said thait the swimming teams to compete in the competitions for…

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Pennant Bowls Teams to play on Home Grounds

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 8

All teams in the Silver City Bowling Association's pennants competition will be on their home greens on Saturday. In No. 1 Section chief interest will be centred on whether. Brokens Green can end the victorous run of Brokens Blue, now four premiership points ahead of Brokens Green and Brokens Gold…

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Pennant Bowls

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

The draw and teams for the pennant bowls competition tomorrow are: DRAW North White v. North Blue. North…

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Boxing Training at Trades Hall

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 1

Local fight trainers T. Khan and R. Price are conducting a boxing gymnasium at the Trades Hall each night at 7 o'clock…

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Tennis Tournament At Easter

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

During the next fortnight the District Tennis Association will release full details of its forthcoming Easter tournament. The Association has made…

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New Cricket Round Starts Tomorrow

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

All grad teams in the Cricket league will commence the third round of their respective competitions tomorrow. The A grade draw…

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Third Round Of Local Cricket

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 11

Third round of the Barrier District Cricket League's competition in all grades will be opened tomorrow. Resulting from their win over…

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McWILLIAMS GOLF

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 2

For the McWilliams golf tournament entries have been received from every State, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the Philippines…

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Bright Cricket Expected Today All Grades Commence New Round

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 5

Spirited cricket should be the order of the day as teams today commence new founds in all grades. A grade teams have proved recently that they are all capable of sustained bursts of aggressive, match-winning cricket, and although…

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Big Prizes For Athletic Carnival La Beach Coming Here For Silver City Gift

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 5

With prizemoney totalling more than £700 the Zinc Corporation and N.B.H.C. Athletic Club carnival to be held next month will be the biggest gift carnival to be held in Broken Hill…

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Dog Racing On Saturday Night

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 12

The greyhound racing season will open with a night meeting next Saturday. The Greyhound Owners and Trainers' Association and the…

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Annual Meeting of Football League

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Football League will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7.30 o'clock. Election of officers takes place at this…

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