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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1903

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Singleton Football Club

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 2

A SPECIAL general meeting of the above club was held at the Mechanics Institute on Thursday night. Present: Messrs G. A. Bates (chair),…

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Murrurundi Junior Football Club

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 4

We have been requested to state that a meeting of the above club was held at Doffy's Club Hotel, Haydonton, an the 23rd April, when the rules and bylaws of the…

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Local and General News. Robertson Electorate Football Association

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Robertson Electorate Football Association was held at the Golden Fleece Hotel, Scone, on Saturday afternoon last, when the attendance was…

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Football. the Australian Game

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1903 · page 2

The first game under Australian rules in Maitland for several years was played on Saturday on the Albion Ground, between Summer Hill and Northumberland. There was a very fair attendance…

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Boxing

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 4

Jim Scanlan, the American heavy weight, and Billy M'Coll, the Newcastle boxer and holder of the title, are to contend for the heavy-weight boxing supremacy of…

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Football

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 4
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

There will be a meeting of Singleton Football Club this evening. The official opening of the Rugby football season on Saturday in Sydney, favored…

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Sporting. RACING

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 3

May 19th and 21st.—Upper Hunter (Muswellbrook) Amateur Race Club. May 27th and 28th.—Scone Jockey Club's Annural Meeting; for programme, and…

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Cricket

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 4

Following will represent Glendon in a match against Mr Tomkins" Team on Saturday next at Victoria Square, play to commence at 10.30:— H., F. and D…

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The Tennis Season. Re-opening of the "Waratah" Tennis Club

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 4

The members of the "Waratah" Tennis Club assembled in some force on Saturday afternoon at their Tennis Court, off Elizabeth-street, to celebrate…

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Dungog J. C. Races

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 2

In our last issue the racing results of the first day were published. The attendance on that day was very large, and a large number of ladies were…

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Inter-state Rowing Races. Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 3

The sculling contest for the Amateur Championship of Australasia took place this afternoon, on the Lower Yarra course, in the presence of an enormous corwd of…

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Football

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 4

In Melbourne, on Saturday, in the League matches, Carlton (at one time a splendid team) created a surprise by beating Collingwood (last year's champions) by 9 goals 4 behinds to 5 goals 7…

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Swimming

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 3

Montague Holbein has stated that he has definitely decided to make another attempt to swim across the English Channel. He will do so about the latter…

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Boxing

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 3

In Sydney on Monday evening Mick Dooley and Bill Heckenberg met a what was to have been a twenty rounds boxing contest, but the men had not been at it…

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Echoes of Sport. the Calendar. Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 3

May 16—Hospital and Nurses' Home Benefit Meeting, Rutherford ; entries, May 8. May 20—Newcastle Jockey Club; entries, May 11. ATHLETICS…

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Newcastle Racing Sensation. a Charge of Conspiracy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 2

The sensation caused at the race meeting of the Newcastle Jockey Club an April 20, by the discovery that the scales had been "loaded," was advanced another stage at the Newcastle Police Court to-day,…

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Football

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 May 1903 · page 4

The Rugby season will open in Maitland to[?] when Northernand Western Divisions will [?] also the B teams of each division. Lst year, [?] seniors were very equal, aslo the junors, and alt[?]…

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The Racing Scandal. Information Altered

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 May 1903 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thursday Afternoon.—At the Police Court to-day, James Kingsley, H. J. Moran, and Geo. Lucas, on remand, were charged…

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Newcastle Racing Sensation. Two Accused Committed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 May 1903 · page 2

The case which is now know as "the racing sensation," occupied Mr. Scott, S.M., until half-past five p.m. yesterday at the Newcastle Police court, the occasional chamber being crowded to its utmost…

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