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Broken Hill & the Far West · Sport

Sport, 1951

1,396 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 70

Boxing

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 6

A good program has been arranged for the opening of the boxing season tonight. Local champion, Ted Anderson, has…

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Rugby Union Season

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 11

Rugby Union football trials will be begun on April 21. Three teams will be raised and a fourth is possible…

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Boxing Revival at Stadium

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 11

Len Pippin arrived from Sydney yesterday and completed his training under Ted Khan last night for tonight's bout against Ted Anderson at the Stadium…

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Catholic Tennis Team

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 1

J. Roche and D. Morgan, W. Moroney, sen., and J. Kelly, E. Paccy and B. Kelly…

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Stop Press Today's Cricket

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 12

Sydney.—South Australia v. New South Wales.—S.A. four for [?]3 (Duldig 44 n.p., Giles 8 [?] [?] [?]undries 3)…

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Wickets Fall in League Cricket Play

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 11

First series of matches in the third round of the Barrier District Cricket League's competition will conclude tomorrow. A.S.C. have in an afternoon's play gained a cheap…

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Central Football Notes

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 5

The Magpies held their first meeting for 1951 last Sunday when the election of officers took place. The attendance was fairly good and quite a few new…

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Cricket Tomorrow's Matches

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 6

Another series of cricket games will be played tomorrow by Sunday teams. Arrangements are:—…

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Entries For SCRC Races

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 5

Nominations for the S.C.R.C race meeting to be held at the racecourse on March 3 will close with the secretary (Mr. A. N. Bennetts) on Tuesday…

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Greyhound Races at Oval Tonight

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 7

Tonight's Greyhound race meeting will mark the opening of the 1951 season, and authough there are only eight races there should be some good racing. There are a large number of dogs…

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Cricket Games to Provide Interest Teams Fighting to Regain Positions

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 5

After the sensations of last week when bowling on the turf wickets wrought havoc with batsman, local A grade cricket teams will be out this afternoon to recover their positions. Even at the Glodstone Ground the matches will be fraught with…

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Low Scoring in Shield Cricket Tailenders Save S.A. From Total Collapse

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 1

Sydney, February 16.—Stubborn resistance by the last four South Australian batsmen prevented N.S.W. from getting a big score before stumps in the Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground today. At stumps N.S.W. had lost 1/32…

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Boxing and Wrestling

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 4

Sydney, February 18.—All Costello (16.8) was disqualified in last night's wrestle against Mel Peters (16.) at Leichhardt Stadium after he had…

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Greyhound Races

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 12

Mr. H. King, steward for Greyhound Racing has advised that all dogs nominated for last Saturday's meeting will be regarded as…

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Commonwealth Cricket

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 4

Colombo, February 18.—In the second day's play of the Commonwealth versus Ceylon three-day match the visitors closed their first innings at the…

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Sunday Cricket

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

Alma Hotel easily defeated Imperials yesterday 328 to 152. Beat for Alma were Trembath 74, Vale 55, Dolan 22 and Schuster 22, Best bowlers were…

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McWILLIAMS Wine Golf

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

An Irish amateur golfer (J. G. Clark) has accepted an invitation to play in the McWilliam's Wines Tournament at Kensington on…

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West Football Club Annual Meeting

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 4

The annual general meeting of the West Football Club was held in the club rooms yesterday morning. There was a very fair attendance…

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Football Clubs Getting Ready For Big Opening

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 8

With the football season opening on April 28, all clubs have met and elected their officers for the coming season, which promises to be most successful…

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Bright Scoring Seen in League Cricket Matches Ex-High Surprise; STC Force Outright Win

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

Fast scoring was seen in the grade cricket games on Saturday. S.T.C. batsmen lashed West bowlers to score 123 for the loss of four wickets in the second innings to gain on outright victory…

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