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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1919

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Football. Rugby League Executive

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 7

xhe first meeting of the newly-appointed delegates of the Hunter Districts Rugby League was held in Miss Edwards rooms on Wednesday evening when Mr. D. J…

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Bowls. Hunter District Association

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 2

This afternoon the Champion Singles competition will bo played. Owing to the flu epidemic the Kurri and Cessnock players will play on their own…

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Football in China

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 15

The Chinese, first as they were in many things, were first in the field with that winger pastime we regard as peculiarly our own—football. They played football from…

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Football. Association Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 6

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Uppor. Hunter Football Association, held at the Railway Hotel, Scone, on Saturday afternoon last,…

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Bowls. Hunter District Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1919 · page 7

On Saturday afternoon the first stage of the champion singles competition was commenced. The heavy rain during the previous night caused the greens to be heavy…

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Football. Wallables v. BLUES

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1919 · page 7

The Junior Wallabies and the junior Blues Played their on the Maitland Park on Saturday. For the Wallabies E. Munroe scored two tries, and A. lester one try…

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Athletics. Maitland Amateur Athletic Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1919 · page 7

The weekly tralning exhibitions of the maitland Amateur Athletic Club are becoming increasingly popular with the pubics, and the member, whoses numbers are…

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Cricket

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 6 May 1919 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

The following team will represent Bandon Grove against Hulton, on Saturday next, May 10th., play to start at 11 o'clock:—G. Nash, G. Smith, S…

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Latest Sporting News. Racing Restrictions. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 May 1919 · page 4

Should the influenza restrictions be lifted this week, the A.J.C. Autumn meeting will probably begin at Randwick on the 17th instant. Canterbury Club will also hold the…

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Football

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 2

A match was played on the showground on Saturday last between teams representing Muswellbrook and Scone Clubs, and resulted in a…

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Football. Senior Cadet Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 7

The weekly meeting of the Senior Cadet Football Club was held in the West Maitland Drill Hall on Monday night, when the following centres were represented:—West…

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Latest Sporting News. Boolaroo Races

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 5

Boolaroo races set down for the 3rd inst., having been abandoned in consequence of the racing restrictions, a programme has been issued for Saturday next, the 19th instant…

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Maitland Amateur Athletic Club. Committee Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 2

A committee meeting or the Maitland Amateur Athletic Club was held in Wolfe's rooms last evening, the following members being present:—Messrs. W. H. Gillard…

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Cricket

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 3

Following will represent District team against N.A.A. team at the showground on Saturday:—G. Smith, F. Jarman, D. Thrift, R. Thrift, P. Marshall, 11. Ohm…

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New Zealand Rugby Champions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 5

Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that the New Zealand team of Rugby footballers, the winners of the Imperial tournament, defeated a picked French team by 16…

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Bowls. Mainland Bowling Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 7

A fully attended committed meeting of the members of the above club was presided over by the president, Mr. W. R. Kerr, last evening, and considerable 'business…

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Football. Saturday's Matches

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 7

East Maitland v. Morpeth—f. Marr, F. Jones, N. Laybutt, G. Marr, R. Cotterill, R. W. Perry, H. Morgan, W. chapman, H. Wilson, C. Dever, W. Pidding, A. Kedwell, and…

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Cricket Reminiscences

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 5

One rends in your valuable paper of a Cricket match. "Has-Beens v. Presents," in Scone, which I think may be rightly termed the centre of local…

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Lawn Tennis Championships

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1919 · page 13

In the lawn tennis championships at Roehampton on the hard courts tournament, in the third round singles G. Patterson beat L. Raymond, ex-champion of Witwatersrand, 7-5,…

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