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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1906

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Football

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 7
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

New South Wales beat Queensland second fifteen by 20 points to nil at Brisbane on Wednesday. The Scone and Independent Clubs…

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Coursing. East Greta Rat Coursing Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 7

The first meeting of the above club was held on the 23rd instant in Lee's paddock, and turned out a complete success. Mr. R. Woods, of the East Gret Hotel, supervised all the necessary arrangements…

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Football

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

There will be two trophy matches played this afternoon. Muswellbrook Club will meet the local Wanderer Club on the local ground, and Scone…

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Football. Northern v. HINTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 5

The above third grade teams met on the cricket oval on the Albion Ground this afternoon. The match resulted in a win for Northern by 6 points to 5. Drew scored for…

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Echoes of Sport. Calendar. Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 7

July 7.—Heddon-Greta races; entries Monday. July 11—Maitland races entries, July 5 COURSING…

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Football

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1906 · page 3

Auckland City will meet Newtown at Sydney on Saturday. Singleton defeated the Federals on Saturday at Victoria Square by…

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Cricket

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1906 · page 3

H. V. Hordern, the well-known North Sydney cricketer, will leave Sydney on Monday next in the Maheno,. for Philadelphia, where he…

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The Cricket Crisis. Board of Control Recognised. Players' Contract Destroyed by M.C.C.

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1906 · page 2

A meeting between representatives of the various cricket interests in Melbourne was held on Saturday, and as the result of the…

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Football

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 2

The public opinion is that the game played by the light blues on Saturday was one of the best exhibitions of fooiball witnessed on the local ground…

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Coursing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 3

The Lake Macquarie Coursing Club held its third meeting on the prettily situated Teralba plumpton yesterday, when there was a fair attendance, despite counter attractions. The…

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Swimming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 3

C. J. Daniel, of America, swam 120 yards at the Bath Club in 72 seconds, beating Cecil Healy, of Sydney, by a yard, and establishing a record for the distance…

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Boxing

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 4

A boxing contest took Place at the Globe Pastime Glub on Monday night between william Moroney and Alfred Skinner. The latter was knocked out…

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Football

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 4

The members of Centennial F.C. are nothing if not enthusiastic They have engaged a room hi John-streot for purposes of Practice in scrum,…

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Lawn Tennis

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 4

A meeting of the employees of Messrs Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., was held' on Monday evening for the purpose of forming a tennis club. The…

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Narrabri Races. Narrabri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 3

Following are the results of the concluding events yesterday:— First Hack Race.—Forget Me-Net, 1; Fairy Lock, 2; Holbrook, 3. Time, 1min. 16½sec…

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Football

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 4

To represent Northern seniors against Kurri Kurri, on the Showground, to-morrow, at 3 p.m. : Lethbridge, Redding, Johnson, Ferris, Jennings, Mulland, Eldridge, Campbell, Rl Fullford,…

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Football. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 2

SIR,—The, report of the football match played at Scone on Saturday last, between the Independents and Scone club, which appeared in…

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Boxing Bear Wins Fight with Man. in Five-round "Go" Clawless Chris Knocks Out Rural "Champeen."

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 3

"Dast ye fight a real live b'ar an do it barehanded ?" Carelessly inquired Eph. Morse the other night as "Scrapper" Bill Pelkey, teamster,…

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