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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1906

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Echoes of Sport. Calendar. Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1906 · page 4

Juno 4—Newcaslte Jockey Club; entries, May 28. June 4—Merriwa Jockey Club ; entries, May 24. June 4, 5—Mucleuy River Jockey Club. June 9—Heddon-Gretu ; entries, June 4…

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The Cricket Crisis. Leading Players Suspended. Rev. E. F. Waddy Remains Loyal

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 May 1906 · page 1

The New South Wales Cricket Association on Monday evening suspended seven prominent New South! Wales players, who will remain under the…

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Athletics

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 May 1906 · page 3

A wonderful runner will soon appear in American and European athletic circles. He is an Indian named Nozo, from Tiburon Island, in the…

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Bowls

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 4

The following team has been selected to piny Waratah to-morrow on the Waratah Green Pender, Gash, Eldridge, Eastern: Cauadell, Fry Robinson, Feneley ; Skinner, Hill Hackett,…

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Football

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

The following will represent Southern Seniors v. Heddon, on the Albion Ground, to-morrow, at 8.30 p.m.—Tooze, Edwards, Laybutt, J. J. O'Brien, Falconer (2), Curran, Bromhead, Nanearrow,…

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Some Cricket Stories

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 4

IN a recent London "Daily Mail" Mr. G. H. S. Trott told some interesting yarns about cricketers he had met. First of all he tells a tale about…

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The Cricket' Crisis

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 5

At a meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association on Monday night seven of the players concerned in the hostile attitude against…

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Echoes of Sport. Calendar. Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 4

Juno 4—Newcastle Jockey Club ; entries, May 28. June 4—Merrhvu Jockey Club. Juno 4, 5—Mucleay River .Jockey Club. June 9—Heddon-Greta; entries June 4…

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People Who Live in the Water. One of the Strangest Races on Earth

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 4

Professor Otto von Stockslager, a well-known Belgian explorer and ad­venturer, has announced the discov­ery of one of the strangest races of…

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The Athletic Girl

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 4

The following letter is from an athletic [?]:— "I am an athletic girl; I hunt all the inter and golf all the summer. I am a…

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Racing the Flood

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 14

To the men who ranged cattle along the borders of the lower Colorado River, Johnnie Le Man was known as the "spoiled broncos friend." Sooner or later all the incorrigibles within a…

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Largs Tennis Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

A euche party and dance will he held in the School of Arts at Largs on Friday evening next under the auspices of the Largs Tennis Club, Particulars will be found in an advertisement…

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Football Union Sports

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

It will 'be observed by advertisement elseWhere in this issue that entries for the All-comers, 440 yards, Youths' Race, Footballers' Handicap. Harriers' Race, and bicycle…

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The Cricket Difficulty

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 11

A general meeting of members of the New South Wales Cricket Association was held on Monday evening to consider the answer of the players who had promised to play with…

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Echoes of Sport. Calendar. Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 8

June 4—Newcastle Jockey Club ; entries, Monday. June 4—Herriwa Jockey Club. June 4, 5—Macleay River Jockey Club. June 9—Hedden-Greta ; entries, Juno 4…

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Football Intoxication. Risks of Spectators

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 3

Sir James Crichton-Browrie, M.D., gives his views on the question whether footballrwatching is a healthy occupation in the March number of "Pearson's…

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Sensational Boxing Match. Man Insensible for Hours. Albury

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 5

A boxing contest for the lightweight championship of Riverina took place in the Federal Theatre last night, in the presences of about 300 people, and it came to a sensational termination. The principals…

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Teralba Coursing Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 May 1906 · page 8

The recently-formed Teralba Coursing Club commenced its first meeting on the shores of Lake Macquarie on Friday in very unpleasant circumstances, for rain fell' throughout…

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Echoes of Sport. Calendar. Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 May 1906 · page 8

June 4—Newcastle Jockey Club ; entries. to—night. June 4— Merriwa Jockey Club. June 4, 5—Macleay River Jockey Club…

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