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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1928

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Lawn Tennis. Teams for

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 8

East Maitland Park a grade ladies on Association court. -Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Edmunds. B Grade Ladies No. 1, E.M Park…

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Novel Plan. to Dry Tennis Courts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 6

A novel idea was introduced during the recent Far Northern Tennis Carnival. After a heavy fall of rain, the courts at Glen Innes were very wet in…

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Exhibition Tennis Newcastle v. Cessnock Thursday Night's Attraction

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 5

The following team lias been selected to play Cessnock in an exhibition match against Newcastle on the Cessnock Municipal courts on…

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Cricket. Super-grade Matches. Trial Games Instead

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 8

The New South Wales Cricket Association has definitely rejected the proposal to institute a supergrade competition At its monthly meeting…

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Football on the Square Singleton Club at Practice

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

Thirty members of the newly reformed Singleton Football Club turned up at Victoria Square on Saturday afternoon for practice. Among them…

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Monte Carlo Tennis Crawford and Hawkes Have "Walk Over."

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

Monte Carlo, Sunday.—In the semifinals of the La Festa tennis tournament, Lacoste beat Gentien, 6-3, 6-2, and Mayes beat Maier, 6-1, 6-0…

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Cricket. Upper Hunter Association Win John Bull Shield

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 5

The Upper Hunter team has won the John Bull Shield this year, defeating Newcastle by one in the aggregate number of points scored. Six teams…

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Cessnock Races To-morrow (Wednesday) Notes on the Events

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 3

Cessnock will be the rendezvous of sports to-morrow, when the local club will eater for racing folk with a six event programme. Although…

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No title Upper Hunter League Football. Annual Meeting of Delegates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 7

The annual meeting of delegates of the Upper Hunter Rugby League Football Association was held at Aberdeen on Saturday last…

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Easy Victory Pretoria Outclassed. By Australian Women's Tennis Team. CAPETOWN, April 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 5

The Australian women tennis players to-day easily defeated Pretoria, winning all five rubbers without the loss of a set…

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Mechanical Coursing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 4

The public of Maitland are given an invitation to have a free night at the dog trials to be held on the Show around this evening…

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Proposed Swimming Baths

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 4

The proposal to construct swimming baths was referred to at the meeting of the West Maitland Municipal Council last evening…

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Races Postponed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

Vacy races, which it was proposed to hold on Saturday next, have been posponed until May day, 7th of next month. Entries close on…

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Football. Aberdare v. CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 9

The following will represent Aberdare against Cessnock, at Cossnock, on Saturday, in the State League competition:-Goal, McKissock;…

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Boxing Tumney-heeney Pight New York April 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 10

Tex Rickard. announced on Tuesday that the prospects of staging the Tunney-Hceney bout in London were remote. It was likely that the fight…

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Lawn Tennis," Mars Buckley Cup Strong Victorian. Team

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 9

Victoria will be strongly represented in its contest with New South Wales for the Mars Buckley Cup on April 27, and 28, the following…

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Gone to Italy Austhalian Tennis Team. Paris. April 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 10

A Monte Carlo messge states that the Australian tennis players have gone to Milan. Later they go Alassic then to Rome…

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Brugnon Defeated French Tennis Team in South Africa. Capetown. April 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 10

The French tennis players continued their matches against the South Africans to-day. Brugnon (Franco) was boaten by…

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Tennis

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 19 April 1928 · page 3

The following will play in the return match against B. H. P. on Friday night, car leaves Brawn's corner at 6 sharp. Mrs. Puddle, Misses Smith, Noble, Ambler…

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Sculling. Great Public Schools Regatta. Sydney High Wins Brilliantly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 April 1928 · page 9

There was a great pilgrimage of schoolboys and their friends to the Parramatta River on Wednesday afternoon to see the heats of the Eights,…

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