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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1928

4,057 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 69 of 203

Bowls

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 6

Messrs W. J. Cragg. H. J. Geary, J. H..Decent, J. M'Grogan, E. J. Head, S. F.North, A. Mather, J. J. Ogilvy, H. Roberts, M. Doohan, F. E. Willcox, and…

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Municipal Swimming Baths

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 5

Sir,—As a ratepayer who is not opposed to the proposal to establish municipal swimming baths, providing they are constructed at a…

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Football Results

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 3

On Wednesday Maitland played Newcastle High in five grades and won four out of the five games, but were defeated in the first grade…

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Hare Coursing Casualties Arouse Association

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 13

"Permission to hold future coursing meetings by the Owners and Trainers' Coursing Company, Ltd., and the Liverpool Coursing Club will…

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Boxing. Sullivan in Tenth Round

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 15

Tommy McInnes (10.9) and Johny Sullivan (11.0) met at Sydney Stadium on Saturday. In the tenth round Sulivan was declared the winner on a…

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Lawn Tennis State Championships

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 2

Owing to the courts being too wet for play, a start was not made with the matches in the State championships at Rusheutter's Bay on…

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Cricket. District Clubs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 6

Writing to this office in regard to another matter, a former prominent cricketer refers incidentally to the cricket dispute and the suggestion…

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Howe Park Tennis Tournament

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 6

The Howe Park open tennis tournament commences at 10 a.m. to-day (Saturday). The committee are delighted with the largo numbor of entries…

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Boxing. Lekie Wins Featherweight Title. Dunedin

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 13

At Dunedin, Johnny Leckie outpointed Norman. Gillespie, for the featherweight championship of Australasia…

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Queensland Tennis Players Capetown, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 6

The matches between the Queensland: tennis players and the South African players were continued to-day when Moon and Cummings (Australia) beat…

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Bowls. New Zealanders in England. London, May 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 9

The New Zealand bowlers drew with Wiltshire at Salisbury, each side scoring 126, Grant (Oamaru), Hutchinson (Dunedin), and Sole…

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Football. Holiday Match at East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 9

The holiday attraction at East Maitland on Monday next will be the first and reserve grade football matches, Morpeth-East Maitland are…

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Boxing. Sharkey Knocks Out Delaney. New York. April 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 2

Jack Sharkey, of Boston, knocked out Jack Delaney, former lightweight champion of the world, in the first round of a fifteen-round bout…

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Letters to the Editor Cricket Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 5

Sir,—I have been following the cricket controversy, and would like to be informed on one point which, to my mind, has really caused the…

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Football. South Sydney v. Newcastle. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 7

1n the South Sydney v. Newcastle match, when the game had been in progress for about half an hour, German , a Novocastrian, scored a…

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Big Golf. British Championship. Notable Absentees. London, April 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 12

Entries for the open golf championship at Sandwich on May 7, include fourteen from France, ten from America, the chief being Hagen…

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Northern Racing. Clubs in Conference. Deputation to Assistant Treasurer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 9

Far-reaching decisions were arrived at, when a conference of registered racing clubs of the Maitland and Newcastle districts was held at Maitland on Thursday…

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Australian's Win Tennis Matches in Rome. Take Singles and Doubles

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 12

Gerald Patterson and J. Crawford decisively won the doubles and the singles finals in the Lawn Tennis tournament…

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Glamorgan Wins First County Cricket Match. London, May 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 3

Glamorgan won the first county cricket, match, of the season, beating Worcester, by 33 runs. Glamorgan, in the second innings, totalled 165…

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In Winning Vein Australian Tennis Players at Rome. Rome, April 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1928 · page 12

In the international tournament, the Australians continue in winning vein. Patterson beat Hamilton. 6-2, 6-4: Patterson beat Frenz. 6-4, 3-6, 7-5…

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