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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1916

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Muswellbrook Golf Club Championship

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 August 1916 · page 2

Fourteen members entered for above, but only eight competed and they consequently qualified. The draw is as follows and must be…

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Curtailing Racing. South Australian Request

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1916 · page 3

A large deputation, representing churches and other bodies opposed to racing, waited on Mr. Styles, the Chief Secretary yesterday, with the request that horseracing in…

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Lawn Tennis and Croquet. Dangar Cottage Hospital Tournaments

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 August 1916 · page 8

Entries and handicaps for tennis tournament on Howe Park to-day, in which play has been set down for 11 o'clock, are as follow:—…

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Boxing. Uren Beats Cole

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 August 1916 · page 7

Tommy Uren (10.6) easily defeated Jack Cole (10.5) at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night. The contest, only lasted five rounds, but in that short period Cole…

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Maitland Races. the Cup Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 August 1916 · page 7

The attendance at the Maitland Jockey Club's Cup meeting at Rutherford on Saturday was very much larger than was anticipated by the most sanguine of the club's…

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Boxing

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 4

Tommy Uren (10st 61b) easily defeated Jack Cole (lOst 51b) at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night. The contest only lasted five rounds, but in…

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Lawn Tennis and Croquet

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 4

The open tennis tournament held on the Singleton Cricket Ground courts, the initial stages of which were got through on Saturday, has so far proved an…

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Boxing. Knock-out Brown, Chicago

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 7

If Knock-out Brown beats Levinsky on September 1st he will go ton Australia to light Darcy…

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Sporting. Turf. Quirindi Races Postponed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3

Owing to yesterday's heavy ruin the Quirindi Jockey Club has been compelled to postpone its meeting, which was to have taken place to morrow…

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Hospital Concert & Races. at Aberdeen—saturday Next

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3

The concert, to be held at Aber[?] on Saturday night next, in aid [?] the Scott Memorial Hospital, pro[?]es to be one of the greatest…

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Bowls

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1916 · page 2

Parkinson and Border defeated Rixon and Humphries in the semifinal of the doubles competition and the winners will meet Lowe and…

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Muswellbrook Races

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1916 · page 2

Entries for the local races on Monday next did not close till 6 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday), but up to noon they were of such a sutisfactory nature as to indicate a very…

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Sporting Notes. Maitland Races

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1916 · page 2

There was a very large attendance at the Maitland Cup meeting on Saturday, the weather being fine and warni. Large fields were the order…

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Bowls

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 2

The following players have been selected to meet Kurri Kurri team on local green on Saturday next, at 2 o'clock…

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Bowls. Inter-district Match

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 7

Yesterday afternoon the Maitland Park club put up a record for the North, in the number of bowlers that assembled on their green-to take part in the inter-district match…

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Bowls

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 6

Four rinks from Kurri will visit Singleton to-day, and to-night the visitors will be tendered a smoke concert in the club room…

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Boxing. Uren Beats Cole

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 15

Tommy Uren (10.6) easily defeated Jack Cole (10.5) at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night. The contest only lasted five rounds, but in that short period Cole…

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Large Patriotic Races

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 4

Ladies willing to assist the Ladies' Patriotic Committee in connection with the forthcoming Large picnic race meeting are requested to attend a meeting to be held on…

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Boxing. Magirl Defeats Smith

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 7

Artie Magirl, the American middleweight, proved himself a good fighter and boxer at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night. when he knocked Dave Smith out in the…

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Boxing

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

Georges Carpentier writes in the London "Weekly Dispatch:" "I am anxious to mèt Darcy, the 'Australian Wonder.' I believe is something of…

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