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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1928

1,161 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 17 of 59

Sporting Notes and News GOLF. Notes and News

The Young Chronicle · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 2

The season is proving itself one of prolific growth, wtih a superabundance of undesirable grasses and weeds, which are making the…

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English Thirteen Rugby Team Sails Analysis of Touring Side LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 4

The Rugby League players embark by the "Cathay" tomorrow and are confident of doing equally as well as any previous touring side…

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SPO[?]TING (Continued) Football. Season Opens. Try-out Match on Sunday. Notes and News

The Young Chronicle · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 2

The football season will open in earnest on Sunday next, when a try-out match will be played on the cricket ground. All intending…

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Football

The Yass Courier · Monday 23 April 1928 · page 3

Yass district footballers want to Queanbeyan on Saturday, and were victorious by 12 to 0. The following Yass players were selected to go to…

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Boxing Solton Beats Conley Interesting Lightweight Bout

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 April 1928 · page 6

Victory goes to the physically fit, [?]n the boxing game, anyway; and that fact was amply demonstrated at the Arcadia Skating Rink on…

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Bowls. Yass Defeats Goulburn, 116 TO 103

The Yass Courier · Monday 23 April 1928 · page 6

On Saturday afternoon five rinks from ,the Goul[?] visited Yass. In the absence of the President, (Mr F. H. W. Dabb[?]) Mr C. J. Foran,…

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Golf Goulburn Club Saturday's Keen Play

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 April 1928 · page 6

Although the season has been open for about six weeks it is only now that the fever has really attacked the majority of members. The growth of…

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Sydney Show, Races, and Incidentals

The Yass Courier · Monday 23 April 1928 · page 6

Travelling through the country one most be struck with the magnificence of the season. Undoubtedly the autumn is one of the best ever…

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Golf Crookwell Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 6

On Saturday last there was a good attendance of members at the Crookwell links, when a bogey competition was played by the members. The…

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The Game of Golf

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 4

What is this golf? Golf is a form of work made expensive enough for a man to enjoy it. It is physical and mental exertion…

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Cost £1250. Football Grandstand Parkes

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 2

Players and club delegates connected with Sunday's intergroup football game at Parkes were entertained at a dinner in Parkes at night…

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Football Group Teams Meet Country Week Preparations

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 6

The elimination matches arranged with a view to selecting a team to represent Group 8 for their match with Group 9 on Sunday next at…

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FOOTBALL. The Try-Out Match Some Outstanding Players

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 2

The football season opened on Sunday with a try-out match between teams selected by Bill Douglass and Sid Hall…

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Olympic Games World's Athletic Championships Previous Fixtures Reviewed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 5

The Olympic Games, which will be during the next three months, are the wide amateur sporting gatherings, the Athens, Greece, in 1896, and which have held regularly at intervals…

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The Local Coursing Craze

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 1

In the little Town of Crookwell where The money's hard to raise, The lads about the Township have The Greyhound Coursing Craze…

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Rugby League Prospects for Season Two Grade Competitions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 2

The Rugby League season for 1928 promises to be particularly attractive and prospects indicate a revival of the game in Goulburn…

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Bow Wow! Enthusiastic Meeting of Doggie Fans Coursing Club Formed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 8

IF NUMBERS and enthusiasm count for anything, then the future of the coursing club, formed at a meeting held at the Blue…

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Tennis Fashions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 6

Tennis players have looked vainly for a new and interesting mode since the Suzanne bandeau was introduced some years ago; but Miss Prudence…

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Tennis Stars Rome

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 2

In the second round of the international tournament Hopman, the Australian Davis Cup player, defeated Delbono, 6-3 6-3…

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Tennis Notes and Comments

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 6

Members of Buffalo Club are to be commended for the sustained interest they show in their club. With its 70 or 80 players Buffalo ranks as the…

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