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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1929

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Final Match Cessnock Cricket Competition. East End Makes Good Start. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 4

East End made a good start in the A grade final match of Cessnock Cricket competition, which commenced on Saturday afternoon…

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Athletics. Australians in England London, March 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 7

W. N. Harrison, of Melbourne, hurt his foot and may be unable to run for Oxford University. Wentworth, of Sydney, was second in a…

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Golf

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 2

The stroke handicap on Saturday last was won by G. W. Barton 86-26-60…

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Maitland Rugby Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 4

A meeting of members and intending members of the Maitland Rugby Union will be hold in the Soldiers' Club rooms, on Thursday next, at 8…

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Golf Associates Card Afternoon

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 2

Golf Associates of the Dungog hold a card afternoon in the new Golf House on Saturday afternoon. There wore over fifty ladies…

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Vacancies for Tennis Players

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 4

The Nil Desperandum Tennis Club has vacancies for three B grade men and three C grade men. For full particulars intending members are…

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Sydney Racing Letter. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 6

The meeting at Roschill on Saturdayhad a special interest, as the opening of the A.J.C. meeting is approaching, and this meeting was something in the…

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Fancy Dress Cricket Match

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 5

The fancy dress cricket match, played at East End oval On Saturday, in support of Miss Jean Hunter's candidature in the Hospital…

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CRICKET Boronia II v. Sawyer's Gully

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 6

Boronia No. 2 cricket team played Sawyer's Gully a return match last Sunday. The game resulted in a win for…

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Cricket Competition Glenmore Wins 2nd, GRADE

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 2

The final of the second grade, competition was played on Saturday last between Dungog No. 1 and Glenmore, on the Glenmore grounds…

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Lawn Tennis. Northern Country Week Carnival. Question of Location

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 2

The meeting of the Northumberland Lawn Tennis Council to-night is awaited with considerable interest by tennis players…

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Miss Boyd. Australian Tennis Star Married London, March 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 5

Miss Esna Boyd, the well-known Australian tennis star was married at Edinburgh to Lieutenant Colonel Angus Robertson director of the…

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Clockless Cricket Comment in England. London, March 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 5

The "Evening Standard," in the last edition, had the head-lines, "Trench warfare methods in test cricket; clockless cricket at its dreariest;…

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Bowls

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 3

The match Singleton No. 1 v, Kurri arranged for 16th instant has been postponed, owing to Kurri green not being available…

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Bowls. Grafton Championship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 7

By defeating Claud Benson by 31 to 28 in a game which went over 42 heads, A. C. Hockey won the championship of the Grafton Bowline Club…

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Cricket

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 3

When Ryder's total, stood at 27 yesterday ho had brought his Test match tally to 1000, being the thirteenth Australian batsman to do so. His…

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Football Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 4

The election of officers and League officials will be portion of the business to be conducted at a meeting of first and reserve grade players of the…

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Lawn Tennis Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 4

The adjourned annual meeting of the Maitland and District Lawn Tennis Association will be held in the School of Arts, West Maitland,…

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Golf. Australian Woman's Success

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 7

At Hamilton, Bermuda, Miss Cecily Lascelles, of Melbourne (Australia), defeated Mrs. M. Saeger (United States), 6 and 5 in the…

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Cricket. Interstate Railwaymen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 7

The series of interstate cricket matches between New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland ended at Brisbane, when Victoria defeated…

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