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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1925

2,758 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 138

Bowls. Victorians at Albury

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

The Victorian bowlers broke their journey from Sydney at Albury and engaged in a three-rink game against the local team, winning, 86 to 45…

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Rugby Union. Toronto v. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

Toronto, the Newcastle Rugby Union premiers of last year, played Kurri Kurri on Newcastle show Ground, on Saturday, in the opening…

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Broke Picnic Races

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 5

Picnic races will be held at Broke on Monday, June 8 (King's Birthday). The programme and other particulars are advertised in this…

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Lawn Tennis. C Grade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

Cross Hill beat St. Paul's (West Maitland), on the former club's court by 5 sets 36 games to 3 sets 33 games…

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Football. Soccer. Ellis Cup Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

There was a large-attendance, at the Homestead Ground Weston on Saturday afternoon, when Weston met West Wallsend in the Ellis Cup…

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Sporting Cables. Cricket. Tate in Form. London, May 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 4

The cricket season opened to-day in cold and showery weather. Lancashire and Warwickshire met at Manchester, the former making 283. E…

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Football. Rugby League

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 7

Two Maitland teams made their debut in the Newcastle a grade competition yesterday, and both performed creditable…

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Rugby Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 4

Players and Supporters of Rugby Union are reminded that a meeting will be held in the committee room of the West Maitland School of Arts…

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Football

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

There was a very satisfactory attendance at the opening games, between the first and second thirteens of the Scone and Muswellbrook…

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Boxing Jones Again

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 3

The boom in boxing has gone off in Cessnock. The mill between Taff Jones of Kurri, and Ces Watson, of Sydney, did not draw the…

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Cricket

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

Tate, in his first match since the return of the English team, captured five wickets for 44 runs. He was playing with his old club…

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Stroud TENNIS

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

The world-wide growth of this game has reached Stroud. There will be more tennis this year than ever before in the history of the…

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DENMAN Football

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

Denman footballers scored a victory on the local oval on Saturday last by 16 to 6 against & Merriwa team. For the home team George…

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Singleton Coursing Club May Meeting

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

The May meeting of Singleton Coursing Club was held on the enclosure at Singleton racecourse on Saturday. The weather was cool and cloudy, with…

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Scone Football Club

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 4

There were some twenty-five members of the local Football Club present at a meeting held at Surman's rooms on Tuesday evening. Mr. A…

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Football Some Golden Rules

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

The old saying, "Possession is nine points of the law," should be horne in mind by all aspiring footballers, for in no other game can the…

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A Day at Barraba Races. Conditions of Country Racing on the Improve Public Have a Good Day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 5

With no races on owing to the postponment of Wallsend, it was not surprising to find a big contingent of the regulars deciding to grace the lawn—…

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Great Public Schools Regatta Championship Eights. Won by Sydney High School

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

The final of the championship eights, in connection with the Great Public Schools regatta, was rowed on the Parramatta River on Saturday afternoon…

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Racing Sensation. Action by Stewards. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

There was a sensation at the Thirsk races, when it was announced that the Jockey Club stewards had commissioned a veterinary surgeon…

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Football Match at Cassilis DENMAN v. CASSILIS

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

Arrangements were well in hand and promptly to time when the Denman boys stepped into Mr. Priddis's Studebaker, Mr. Jonas' 'Rolls Royee,'…

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