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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1929

3,639 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 63 of 182

1000 Guineas Golf Hagen Leads with Record. London, May 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1929 · page 5

Competting in the first qualifying round for the 1000 guineas Professional Golf Tournament at Mooretown, Leeds, Hagon returned a card…

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Tattersall's Races. Scrachings for To-morrow. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1929 · page 5

THe following scratchings are announced for Tattersall's meeting tomorrow:— Flying Handicap: Ulan…

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Boxing. Cook to Meet Negro Heavy Weight. Syracuse (New York) May 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1929 · page 5

Mr. Ames states that George Cook, the Australian heavyweight boxer, will fight the negro heavyweight, George Godfrey, in Detroit some time…

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Football. Rugby Union. Australian Universities Team

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 9

The Australian Universities team, which will leave on Friday for a tour of New Zealand, played a match on University Oval yesterday afternoon…

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Tennis

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 3

The B and C grades (Maitland Comp.) have as a result of a petition been extended for another round. The fixtures, for Saturday are.—…

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Football

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 3

The Junior Raymond Terrace team played a drawn game with Dungog juniors at Dungog on Saturday — 8 all. F. Holwell and Gore got tries for the Terrace. The…

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Rugby Union. Comprehensive Programme

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 9

Saturday next will see the beginning of the longthy list interdistrict, interstate and international matches, all of which are of interest to Newcastle…

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Bowls. West Mainland Club Rink Improvements

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 9

During the past few months, the West Maitland Green has undergone a through overhauling. Both Greens have been top-dressed, now timber…

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East Maitland Junior Football Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 6

A meeting of the East Maitland Junior Football Club will be held in the East Maitland Park to-night, at 7.30 o'clock. All members and…

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Women's Golf. British Championship. London, May 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 6

The women's golf championship was continued at St. Andrew's. Mrs. Dobell, of Bromborough, beat Miss Lascolles, Australia, 7 and 5,…

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Wallsend Races Tria Wins Big Handicap. Small Fields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 9

The meeting of the Wallsend Jockey Club, postponed from Saturday on account of rain, took place yesterday. The attendance was fair…

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Golf Prince of Wales. to Meet Hagen. London, May 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 7

The Prince of Wales having expressed a desire to play a round of golf with Walter Hagen, the American who won the English Open…

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Athletics. Records Broken Melbourne University Sports

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 8

Records were broken in the annual University sports in Melbourne on Wednesday, at which there were many excellent performances…

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Football. Rugby Union. High Schools Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 6

The High School's competition was advanced another stage on Wednesday, when two teams, 10st and 8.7 division from the Marist Brothers…

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Rugby League

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 6

Maitland United teams to meet Morpeth-East Maitland, on Maitland Show Ground, to-morrow. First match at 2 p.m…

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Golf

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 2

Stroke competition will be the order of the afternoon on the local links to-morrow (Saturday). The best foursome card on Saturday…

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Imperial Rugby Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 6

The New Zealand Rugby Union has decided to ask the British Unions and the International Board of Control to participate in the proposed Imperial…

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Football

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 1

North End Block cricketers have now selected a football team to play the Central block. The game has to be Rugby League, and a strong team…

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Golf Notes

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 10

Saturday last saw a four best ball versus Bogey played on the Cessnock links. I forcasted in my notes last week that I expected nothing less…

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Cricket

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 2

Wilfred Rhodes, the veteran Yorkshire and English all-rounder, took nine wickets for 39 for his county against Yorkshire on Wednesday, and…

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