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Sport, 1920

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Boxing. Oversea Boxers Arrive

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1920 · page 7

Yesterday by the Orontes three English boxers arrived in Sydney, viz., Willie Farrel, welter; Arthur Bishop, flyweight; and Joe Symonds, bantam and…

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Bowls. Inter-state Matches

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1920 · page 7

In the inter-State bowling matches in Sydney New South Wales beat Victoria by 93 points to 91, and Queensland defeated New South Wales by 94 to 86…

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Heddon Races

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1920 · page 5

The special train arrangements for Heddon Jockey Club's meeting on Saturday will be found in this issue. A good deal of interest is being taken in the…

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Cricket. Saturday's Matches

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1920 · page 7

Oakhampton v. Marist Brothers, on the park:—M. Ebbeck, M. Scoble, M. Han, M. Murphy, J. Perry, H. BRown, T. Scoble, F. Porter, A. Callaghan, G. Brown, P. Lacey,…

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Lawn Tennis. Inter-varsity Matches

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1920 · page 7

The annual tennis matches between representatives of the Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Universities to determine the holder of the Niall1 Cup and the title of…

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Football. Hunter District Rugby League

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1920 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Hunter District Rugby League was held at Miss Edwards' rooms, last evening, when there was a good master of delegates from affiliated…

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Bowls

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 April 1920 · page 2

The President of the H.R.D. Bowling Association, writing to Singleton Club, says: "Re Pennant match, Kurri v. Cessnock, which resulted in a tie, Kurri…

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Cricket

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 April 1920 · page 4

South Singleton v. Branxton United at the Showground on Saturday next at 10.30 a.m.:—Marshall, Roser, Scholes, Bates, Adanis, M'Alpin (2), Watson,…

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Lawn Tennis

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 April 1920 · page 4

A Melbourne message says that Gerald Patterson has arranged to go to Wimbledon to defend his title of tennis champion. It has also been arranged…

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Bowls

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

The members of Cessnock Bowling Club journeyed to Wallsend green on Friday last to engage in friendly rivalry…

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Boxing Notes

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 3

Bill Broadley and Dan Gallagher, meet to contest the best of twenty rounds to-night in the Strand Theatre. This will be…

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Boxing News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Paris reports that "Liberte" states that a match has been arranged to take place in London on May 10 between Charles Ledoux, the…

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Bowls. Interstate Contest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 7

On the Chatswood green, the final of the series between New South Wales and Queensland was played. The Northern representatives again won by 101 points to 99,…

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Heddon Races

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 7

Heddon Jockey Club races will be held to-morrow, and with favourable weather there should be a large attendance on the popular course. Excellent nominations have…

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Stuart Tennis Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 4

A special general meeting of members of the Stuart Tennis Club will be heid on Monday, 19th instant, in Wolfe's buildings, corner of Elgin-street, for the consideration of…

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Local and General CRICKET

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

The following team will represent Tiligra in a match against Torryburn on Saturday next on the latter's wicket, play to start at 10.30. G. and…

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Cricket. To-morrow's Matches

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 7

Marist Brothers v. Oakhampton, on the Park:—W. Power, M. O'Dea, J. Thomas, W. Sterling, J. Colgan, M. Sheehan J. Cahill, W. Haoban, C. Enright, M. Cahill, E…

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Bowls

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1920 · page 2

Six rinks from the H.R.D. Bowling Association visited the metropolis during the holidays and played a series of matches, and though not…

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Cricket

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 April 1920 · page 3

J. Bourke's combined team visited Cresford on Saturday, 3rd April, and played a match with Gresford, the home team winning by 27 runs. Gresford…

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Boxing. Evans Beats Jamito

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1920 · page 13

Digger Evans and Jamito met in a return match of twenty rounds at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night. The attendance, although good, was not ag large…

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