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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1939

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Golf Stroke Competition Few Players During The Week-End D.McGREGOR'S 63

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 6

Owing to most of the golfers being away during the holidays there were not very large "fields" over the week-end…

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Annual Trotting Meeting an Unqualified Success Excellent Racing Pleases Big Crowd at Goulburn Racing and Trotting Club's Big Fixture Head Margins in Three Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 8

Attended by one of the best crowds seen on the course for some years, the Goulburn Racing and Trotting Club's annual meeting held yesterday was a success from every point of view. The racing was without doubt equal to any ever staged on' any course in…

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Cricket Burns Cup Series Yass v Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 7

On New Year's Day Moss Vale District First Eleven journeyed to Yass to fulfil their engagement in the Burns Cup competition…

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Tallon Equals World Record Queensland Wicketkeeper Dismisses Twelve Batsmen in Match Sheffield Shield Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 8

Don Tallon, Queensland's young wicket-keeper, equalled a world's record that has stood for 70 years, when, in the Sheffield Shield match…

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Victory Came in Last Over Exciting Finish to Cricket Match at Crookwell Limerick's Small Score

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 7

CROOKWELL: The exciting finish to the cricket match between Limerick and Crookwell would have made a fitting…

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Tennis Tournament

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

Last Monday, the Gunning Park Tennis Club conducted an American sealed handicap tennis tournament. This comeptition was for mixed…

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KANGIARA Cricket

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 7

[?] a match arranged for last Sunday, the 1st inst., played at Burrowa, the Kangiara cricketers registered another win. Burrowa batted first…

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Gunning Park Tennis Club Dance

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4

The Gunning Park Tennis Club concluded its social activities for the year 1938 when on Friday night, December 30, it staged its annual dance and…

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Budge Defeats Vines Professional Tennis Match

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 8

NEW YORK, Wednesday: In his first professional tennis match Donald Badge confounded critics last night by a sweeping straight-sets victory…

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BOXING Sidebotham Easily Beats Doyle Fight Stopped in Ninth Round

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 7

The fight in the Memorial Hall on December 22, between Horrie Sidebotham (10.6), of Yass, and Gavan Doyle (10.4), of Queanbeyan, for…

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Tennis Notes by "Volley" Keen Play in Marulan-Goulburn Match Country Carnival

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 8

A team of six men from Marulan met a similar team from the Goulburn Association on the latter's courts last Sunday…

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Portrait of a Race Track at Dawn in Any Country The Sight, Sound and Smell of Horses Are More Engrossing Just After the Sun Comes Up—At That Hour Racing is Really a Sport and Not Merely a Business Written in America, But It Could Be Here

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 8

Every week-day during the year in this country (America) an estimated half-million persons—a good round number—bet on a horse-race they do not see; Probably most of them have no desire to see it, writes Stanley Franks in at…

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Bowls

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 2

The following Is the draw for the singles championship; the first round must be completed on or before January 15: Mudge v. Smith, Davis…

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Swimming Popular

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 2

With yesterday’s record temperature, many people found it too hot indoors. The baths were packed at every session and many people spent…

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Binalong Tennis Tourney Another Success Recorded Some Splendid Matches

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 4

The thirteenth annual tournament of the Binalong Club was concluded on Monday last after a very successful three days play…

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Golf at Manila Von Nida's Championship

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1939 · page 8

MANILA, Monday: The Sydney golf professional, Norman yon Nida, won the 2000 dollar (£A500) Philippine Islands open championship with an…

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Crookwell Cricket Comfortable Win For Bannister

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1939 · page 7

CROOKWELL: Bannister scored a comfortable win over Commercials in the cricket match played at Memorial Park…

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Crookwell Needs a Swimming Pool

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1939 · page 4

With the mercury soaring round unprecedented heights one's thoughts turn, not unnaturally, to the refreshing relief that a swimming pool would…

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Crookwell Golf Stable Ford Handicap No Play Next

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1939 · page 1

There has been little activity on the local links during recent weeks. The protracted dry spell has left its mark and conditions…

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Country Week Tennis Crookwell Lads Unbeaten Seaman and Stephenson

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1939 · page 4

With three days completed, the yothful tennis team which is representing the Crookwell Association at the Country Week…

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