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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1910

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Football

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 May 1910 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Royal Half-Holiday team to meet St. Luke's at Newcastle to-morrow will be picked from the following :—Bates, Smith, d'Argeaval, Moore, Cooper, Waugh, Waugh, Horsley, Graves, Pearson, Pryor,…

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SPORTING. Cricket

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 May 1910 · page 3

Sydney First Grade final was com menced on Saturday, the teams being Central Cumberland and University. The former made 135 (E. F. Waddy 34,…

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The New Tennis Courts

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 May 1910 · page 1

The Singleton Cricket Club committee has lost no time in pushing on the work of preparation of the new tennis courts at Howe Park, with the result that it is…

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County Cricket

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 May 1910 · page 5

A fog like that of November delayed the start of the county cricket matches…

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Cricket. Schools' Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 May 1910 · page 3

sThe final of the 'A grade competition of the Maitland District Schools was played on the Maitland Park on Wednesday be-tween West Maitland Superior Public…

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Football. Maitland Royal Half Holiday v. West Wallsend at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 May 1910 · page 3

Maitland won the toss and Wallsend kicked off with a slight breeze to help them. Macro w received the ball and kicked out, from the throw-in Maitland worked the ball down to their…

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Athletics

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 May 1910 · page 4

Upwards of 3000 people attended at Sydney, stadium on Monday night to witness an "athletic programme originally arranged? as a compliment to the late…

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Boxing

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 May 1910 · page 3

The Methodist Preachers' Association in the city of Philadelphia has passed a resolution affirming that if permission be…

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Football

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 May 1910 · page 3

Teams from the Scone and Wingen Clubs meet on the Park to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon. Eleven mouths have now elapsed…

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The Boxing Championship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 May 1910 · page 5

It is reported that a deadlock has occurred over the Johnson-Jeffries boxing championship, each man objecting to the other's nomination of referee…

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The Coming Amateur Races

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 May 1910 · page 3

A large influx of visitors is expected here for the coming Amateur Races and the accomodating power of the local hostelries will accordingly be fully taxed…

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Football

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

In the Rugby matches last Saturday, Cessnock seniors defeated West End by 20 to nil. Maitland played 5 men short…

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Fatal Boxing Contest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 5

At the inquest in San Francisco regarding the death of Tommy M'Carthy, who died from fracture of the skull after being beaten in a boxing contest, with Owen…

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The Boxing Championship

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 2

Following four hours' wrangling at Johnson's quarters, between the promotors and principals, a dead lock has occurred over the choice of a referee,…

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Swimming the Channel. An Expensive Undertaking

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 2

It must be clear to anyone who has reflected for a moment on the subject that it cannot be an inexpensive thing to attempt to swim the English Channel…

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The New Tennis Courts

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 4

Two of the now tennis courts on Howe Park will be opened this afternoon and it is expected that there will be a good number of members and…

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Dungog Races. Some Ancient History

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 15

Although for a long time past Dungog has not made much pretentions to occupying a high place in the encouragement of the king of sports, the period was when the picturesque town amid…

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Fatal Boxing Match. M'carthy Killed. London, April 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 3

At San Francisco in a boxing encounter. Owen Moran, of England, knocked out Tommy M'Carthy in the sixteenth round. As M'Carthy was rendered unconscious by…

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