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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1927

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Bright Outlook Cessnock Golf Club

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 6

Judging by the enthusiasm that exists among its members, there is a successful season ahead of the Cessnock District Golf Club…

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Plenty of Entries For All-weights Boxing Tourney

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 6

The all-weights boxing tournament now being promoted by Joe Shakespeare is attracting considerable interest, and entries are coming…

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Muswellbrook Golf Club, Annual Meeting. a Successful Year

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Muswellbrook Golf. Club was held at the Shire office on Wednesday evening, when there were present:—Messrs. W…

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Test Cricket. When History Was Made

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 5

Tuesday, last was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the first test watch, which was played in Melbourne on March 15, 16, 17 and 19, 1877…

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Lawn Tennis. J. O. Anderson's Visit to West Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 7

J. O, Anderson, the former Australian champion tennis player, and the first Australian to turn professional is shortly to take an…

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White Man's Waterloo Will The Coloured Races Eventually Gain Supremacy of The World?

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 4

Some twenty years ago a young English-born cosmopolitan mining engineer was moved to the writing of a book—an odyssey of his life, a…

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Bowls

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 7
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R. Pender 26 beat. R. St. Vincent Heyes 13…

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Public Tennis Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 6

A meeting in connection with the public tennis court movement at Morpeth, was held in the Morpeth School of Arts, There was a good…

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Rugby Board. Triennial Confenrences. London, March 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 7

The International Rugby Board has decided to held an Imperial conference in London at intervals of at least three years to consider…

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Boxing. German Boxer's Eighth Win, London, March 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 11

At premierland, Ted Sandwina, the German heavyweights recored his eighth successive victory when he knocked out Tom Norris, former…

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Boxing. Leo Wax. Maitland Boxer in U.s.a

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 1

Leo Wax, the Maitland boxer, who went to America some time ago, is doing well over there. In a letter to his old trainer, Mr. E. O'Brien, of…

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Lawn Tennis. Ground Championships. Crawford Beats Haege

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 11

The State ground championships were continued yesterday in very hot weather. In the singles championship J. Crawford, who was in…

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Lawn Tennis. Federation Meeting Paris, March 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 7

The professional movement is not harming lawn, tennis, At the Lawn Tennis Federation meeting, it was felt that the increasing interest…

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Singleton Golf Club Annual Meeting. the New Links

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 16

The annual meeting of the Singleton Golf Club was held on Thursday evening. Those present: were: Messrs A. B. Shaw (president), D. S…

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Motor Racing. Tasmania to Consider Legislation. Hobart

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 11

The State Cabinet will shortly consider legislation to prohibit motor racing, unless under permit issued by the Commissioner of Police…

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Small Cricket Ball. Manufacturers Busy. London, March 13

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 13

The British cricket ball manufacturers are busy making smaller balls. There are considerable stocks of the nine-inch ball, the present…

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Not Grave Danger. Motor Racing Along Roads. Police Reports to Minister. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 16

In the Legislative Assembly, the Chief Secretary said that reports from the police stated that there was not a grave danger as a result of…

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Athletics. State Championships

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 14

The track and field championships of New South Wales were concluded, except for just a few events, at the Manly Oval on Saturday afternoon…

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Cricket

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 March 1927 · page 2

The final between Gloucester River, and Craven is being gradually played out rain has caused two postponemenis already…

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