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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Sport

Sport, 1937

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 14

WITH Mark Bosley, Bill Howell, Ray Rowe, O. Smith, J. Baker and J. O'Donoghue members of their present first grade side, the team sent by the Cumberland Club…

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Dull Cricket Few Good Individual Scores Wilberforce, Oakville and Sackville Safe

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 13

THE festive season seems to have affected our Hawkesbury cricketers some way or other, as in the seventh series of competition matches which commenced on Saturday, there were few good individual scores, and only two clubs exceeded the double century—Wilberforce (5 for 213) in the A Grade, and…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 14

To be faced with the problem of a wicket on which stumps and crease lines at either end were absent, and only two or three members of his side present in the…

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Mr. H. J. Daley Wilberforce Native Success in Tennis Matches

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 7

THE following refers to Mr. H. J. Daley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Daley, of Wilberforce:— Mr. H. J. Daley, President of the S.D…

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Cricket Association Management Committee Meeting Country to Play English Team

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 5

AT the last management committee meeting of the Hawkesbury District Cricket Association, held at the School of Arts, Windsor, the following were present:—The…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 16

WITH one exception, I think No. 1 district team chosen to represent against Cumberland on Anniversary Day is as near perfection as possible, and the selectors are to…

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Cricket Association Management Committee Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 14

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

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

SO far this season Roy Mitchell, Of Sackville, seems to be obsessed with the idea of continually finding fault with our official umpires, displaying a most marked…

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Oakville Take Lead Wilberforce & Sackville Runners-up Fernadell a Reserve & C & Don't Worry B in Front Five Centuries in Hawkesbury District Cricket

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 13

FOR the first time since the beginning of the season, Oakville have assumed the lead in the A Grade competition of the Hawkesbury District Cricket Association. On Saturday, Oakville won on the first innings against Sackville, who, with Wilberforce, who went under on the first innings against Freeman's…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 14

I was agreeably surprised to find the oval at the Windsor Park looking more like a cricket ground last week-end than it has for many a long day. One hardly…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 2

MOST of us are familiar with the fellow who says "you ought to have seen the cricket they played in my day" and know that in many cases he is carried away by his…

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Motor Boat Racing Upper Hawkesbury Club

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 3

THE club held its usual fortnightly race meeting on Sunday, January 31, attracting an even Bigger crowd than usual. This must surely instance the popularity of speed…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 16

WHEN a team of cricketers has enjoyed the benefit of three years experience on turf wickets one naturally expects them to be capable of adapting themselves to…

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Richmond Golf Club Eleventh Annual Meeting Increase in Visitors

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 3

ALTHOUGH the membership of the Richmond Golf Club has fallen slightly—from 35 members to 33 and 39 associates to 35—during the last season…

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Motor Boat Racing. Upper Hawkesbury Club Races at Wilberforce Dat Postponed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 3

BOAT owners experienced all, kinds of bad luck at Wilberforce on Sunday last, the persistence of which finally induced' officials to "throw in the towel." First of all,…

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Cricket Notes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 4

EVEN in the case of a hot tempered inexperienced youth, any outward display of resentment towards a decision, of an umpire is, to say the least, in very bad…

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Cricket Association Management Committee Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the management committee of the Hawkesbury District Cricket Association was held in the School of Arts, "Windsor, on Saturday last, when…

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Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 14

BY their huge score against Richmond the Sackville team has once again shown how very much more formidable they are when playing on their home ground…

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show Society Applies for Mechanical Hare Racing License See Page 3. Bright Prospects Mechanical Hare Racing on Londonderry Racecourse Show Society Applies for License

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 1

PROSPECTS of mechanical hare racing in the Hawkesbury district were never brighter than at the present time, as, at, its monthly meeting on Friday last,…

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Batsmen Do Best Big Scores in Hawkesbury Cricket Centuries by D. Case, and G. Thompson and L. .Tuckerman

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 15

BATSMEN had the best of the argument with the bowlers in the fourth series of matches in the second round of the Hawkesbury cricket competition com-menced on Saturday, some fine individual and big club totals being recorded. The highest club score was that of Forest (A Reserve) 427 for 8 wickets against…

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