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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1944

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COURSING Favourites Win Three

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 1

A change appreciated by the book makers occurred at the greyhounds on Saturday, when only three races were won by favourites. Two of…

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Rugby League Meeting

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 3

To Keep the game of Rugby League football alive at this centre a meeting will be held at the Railway Institute to-morrow. This will be the first step…

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Goulburn Golf Club

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2

The week-end at the Goulburn Golf Club belonged to C. Malone. He must like the hard hot weather. On Saturday in the first nine holes…

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Tully Park Golf Club

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2

On Saturday a Stableford competition was held and resulted in a win for G. Meskell. Due to the fact that the committeeman on duty falled to enter up…

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BOWLS Championships Finalised

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 5

Of the 82 candidates who faced the barrier in the Club Singles Championship and of the 16 pairs who ran for the pairs, few ever gave the winning doubt…

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Bowls Teams' Competition

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 4

There was a good attendance of members at the green on Sunday last, when eight teams took part in the usual competition. This was…

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Tully Park Golf Club

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 5

Following is the Tully Park draw for the stroke competition on Saturday. Reg. Matthews and J. Turton, M. Hurley and G. Meskell, F. Hall and H. Papworth…

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Cricket Cootamundra Defeats Murrumburrah J. Davis 91; R. Ward 83 R. Ward 717. M. Shea 441

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 4

Murrumburrah journeyed to Cootamundra on Sunday and engaged a team from that town in a friendly match, and met with a severe…

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Summer Ball At Rugby Function Clears £30

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 4

On New Year's Eve night, Rugby ball was the scene of a very hippy throng of dancers, the occasion being a ball, in aid of the Rugby Red Cross funds…

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Goulburn Golf Club

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 3

M. H. Dart had another win on Saturday in a small field. All were well up. The greens again were in splendid order better than they have been…

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Exciting Cricket

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Victorian. I. Johnson, playing with Services, and S. G. Barnes, playing with the N.S.W.C.A., provided the outstanding…

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Goulburn Golf Club

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 2

N. Justelius was the star performer on the links during the weekend. On Saturday 33 points won, on Monday 35, but when Justelius goes…

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Bowls Teams' Competition

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

The usual weekly compettion was held on Sunday last, and resulted in a win for W. Sutton, Lawson, Nielsen, and Kruger on points. Teams…

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BOWLS Federal Championships

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 4

Canberra, Canberra City, Queanbeyan, Goulburn and Yass were represented in the championships of the Federal District Bowling…

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Swimming Carnival Strikes Wintery Weather

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

After a spell of severe hot weather a touch of winter prevailed last night and interfered with the attendance at the carnival held at…

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BOWLS Big Success At Canberra

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 5

Outstanding event in the bowling world this week was the unique success of the club's representatives at the Federal…

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Gunning Park Tennis Club

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 4

Despite the hot sultry conditions which prevailed on Anniversary Day, nine pairs of tennis players took part in a tennis tournament…

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N.S.W. Trotting Club New Series Of Races

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY. Thursday: The New South Wales Trotting Club proposes to hold a series of races for pacers at Harold Park for which prizes…

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Bowls

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 3

In the M. Coen Rink Competition Coen’s rink defeated Davis’s rink yesterday. In the usual week-end…

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Golf

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Yass Golf Club will be held next Thursday night, at 8 p.m., at the Club House…

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