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Sport, 1943

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High School Football

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 May 1943 · page 4

Cessnock High School first and second grade League teams played practice games against Maitland High on Wednesday last in preparation for the…

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Rugby League Cessnock Win in Hard Came

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 May 1943 · page 4

By its defeat of the strong Waratah-Mayfield team on the local Sports Ground on Saturday last, Cessnock share the…

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Golf Season Opened. Encouraging Beginning

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 May 1943 · page 1

For the first time in about 18 years local golfers used sand greens for the club's opening games for the 1943 season on…

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Board to Be Created Control of Greyhound Racing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 May 1943 · page 5

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) has announced that a of nine members will be appointed to control greyhound…

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Bowls. "Cock O' the Walk." Two Wins to N. Fleming and P. Robb

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 May 1943 · page 4

Two wins, the first by the margin of 20 points, and the second by eight points, were registered by N. Fleming and P. Robb in the "cock o' the…

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Military Athletic Carnival

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 May 1943 · page 6

SINGLETON Tuesday.— Headquarter Squadron was the points winner of the reg[?]tal athletic carnival conducted at the…

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Bowls Title

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1943 · page 4

SINGLETON Wednesday—The semi-final of the Singleton Club’s bowling championship will be played on Saturday afternoon…

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School Sport Primary Football Competition

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1943 · page 3

The second series of Rugby League matches conducted by the Maitland branch or the Public Schools Amateur Athletic…

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Bowls

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 6 May 1943 · page 3

Rink competition games will be arranged for Saturday on the local green. Players are required to be on the green by 2.30…

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Coalfields Teams Meet Saturday’s Rugby League Fixtures

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1943 · page 5

Two series of matches have been played with the result that Cessnock, Kurri and Western Suburbs are at the head of the…

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Bowls

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

Quite a number of names grace the honor roll of bowlers this week. Pride of place goes to E. Peel, who defeated tthe Denman champion, F…

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Sporting Bowls

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 5

The local green attracted a large number of members on Saturday last. Conditions were ideal for accurate play…

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Tennis

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 4

There is a possibility that the winter mixed competition will foe staged, for word is now awaited for the final result of the campaign for bails…

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Rugby League Questions

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 3

In Friday’s “Mercury” each week, questions celetion to rugby League rules etc., will be answered in a special column on…

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Saturday's Golf

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 5

A Stableford par competition will be played on Saturday. The draw will be made at the clubhouse at 1.45 p.m…

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Rugby League CESSNOCK v. Kurri Kurri

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 4

The big attraction of to-morrow's Rugby League fixtures will be the game Cessnock v. Kurri Kurri. This…

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