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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Sport

Sport, 1936

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Hawkesbury Tennis

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 2

The results of the matches played on Saturday are as follows: - A Reserve Mixed Doubles Mrs. K. Tuckerman and J. Hall defeated…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 3

EVEN allowing for the fact that the date of the annual Saturday meeting of the Hawkesbury Race Club was hardly the best of days to open the district cricket…

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Enter Cricket Hawkesbury Season Begins Batsmen Already Show Attractive From 4 Centuries Scored on Opening Day of Competition

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 15

BRILLIANT sunshine was experienced on Saturday for the opening of the Hawkesbury cricket season. Generally speaking, batsmen were in a merry mood for so early in the season, and had the best of things in the opening series. Bendigo (A Grade) hit up the remarkable score of 440 for two wickets…

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Tennis Tournament

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 2

On Thursday, 29th September, a tennis tournament, organised by Mrs. S. Evans, who was assisted by Mrs. C. Paull, was held, on the Hawkesbury Agricultural College…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 12

JUDGING by his display against Wilberforce and in the trial match on Eight-Hour-Day, "Snowy" Smith seems to be batting as well as ever, his innings on Monday…

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Pigeon Racing From Broken Hill

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 3

The Windsor Racing Pigeon Society despatched a consignment of racing pigeons by train to Broken Hill on Wednesday to be liberated at dawn on Saturday, 10th October…

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Batsmen Again! Good Hawkesbuey Cricket Scores Four More Centuries — First Series Conclude Bendigo's Early Lead in a Grade Competition

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 13

AS on the opening day, batsmen were in fine form on Saturday, when the first series of matches in the first round of the Hawkesbury District Cricket Competition concluded. There were many fine individual scores and several good club totals. Among the latter was Oakville's 395 for four wickets in the A…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 October 1936 · page 16

WITH a commanding lead of 216 runs on the first innings in the opening round against Wilberforce, the action of "Snowy" Smith, the Reach's skipper, in not forcing…

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Good Scores Hawkesbury Cricket Competition Wilberforce and Oakville Should Win Outright W. Hambly Scores Century for Kurrajong Heights

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 October 1936 · page 15

ALTHOUGH there were some small scores, batsmen generally had the best of the argument in the second series of matches in the first round of the Hawkesbury cricket competition commenced on Saturday in fine weather. Wilberforce and Oakville are in strong positions against Windsor and the R.A.A.F…

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Pigeon Racing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 October 1936 · page 10

THE Windsor Racing Pigeon Society conducted a race at the week-end from Broken Hill, a distance of 555 miles. The seventeen competing birds were liberated at 6…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 October 1936 · page 16

I must say that the side chosen by the H.D.C.A. selectors to represent the Hawkesbury at the N.S.W.C.A. Country Week. Carnival is a vast improvement on…

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Oakville Lead Two Points Advantage in a Geade Bowlers Do Better in Hawkesbury Cricket Rolls Scores Only Century — S. Farrell's "Hat-trick'

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 October 1936 · page 15

THE second series of matches in the first round of the Hawkesbury cricket competition concluded in fine weather on Saturday, with Oakville assuming an early lead in the A Grade, two points ahead of Freeman's Reach and Richmond, who are disputing second position. Kurrajong Heights and North…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 October 1936 · page 16

THE regularity with which our district batsmen are scoring centuries this season quite forcibly demonstrates the complete absence of bowlers of promise in…

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Cricket Country Week 32 Teams to Compete

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 October 1936 · page 16

The New South Wales Cricket Association's Country Week will open on November 2, and continue daily until November 6, when the teams to compete in the Combined…

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Cricket Association Management Committee Meeting Country Week Carnival

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 October 1936 · page 14

THE regular monthly meeting of the management committee of the Hawkesbury District Cricket Association was held at the School of Arts, Windsor, on Saturday,…

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Premiers in Trouble? H. Bowd's—6 -For 40-Great Bowling Batsmen Again on Top in Hawkesbury Cricket J. Hall Scores Fine Century for the Reach

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 October 1936 · page 15

THE PREMIERS, Richmond, are not in a very happy position in their match against Wilberforce, who require only 44 runs with eight wickets in hand to equal the opposition's first innings score of 161. The outstanding feature of this match was the remarkable bowling of the veteran, H. Bawd, who captured six…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 November 1936 · page 3

ALTHOUGH at the time of writing the members of the Hawkesbury Country Week team have been beaten in one of the two matches played, they are being far from…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 November 1936 · page 16

IF the N.S.W.C.A. Country Week is to justify its existence, (I am assuming of course, that it has been inaugurated with the sole purpose of giving young cricketers…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 November 1936 · page 14

IT can be said without fear of contradiction that the captain of a team playing competitive cricket who deliberately ignores the opportunity of securing major points…

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Cricket Scores (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 November 1936 · page 3

Sir.—In your last issue under the scores of the North Richmond-Kurrajong match you inserted a note to the effect that the secretary was requested to use one side of…

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