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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1954

2,395 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 120

Britain’s Golf Courses “Hard”

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 6

MLAMI BEACH (Floride) English golf courses are hater than American ones in the opinion of J. L. Knipre a…

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Golf Club’s Diggers’ Day

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 6

A big field of returned mentored out at Maitland Golf Club for Diggers Day. D. Jenkins was the winner…

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Priests Fined Over Football Pools

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 1

LONDON: Five Catholic priests were among 18 persons sons and two companies fined 2 total of £217. sterling at…

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Football Aberdeen Withdraws From Competition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 1

The Aberdeen Football Club, as a result of the competition dram made last week, has withdrawfi made last weerk, has…

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Hunter River Cricket Association Averages

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 5

C. Johnston, who heeded both aggregate end average for the Hunter River Cricket Association’s first grace competition in the season just concluded, was the only player in the grade to score over 500…

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Golf H. T. Thompson Ex-servicemen's Cup

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 2

The above competition will be held on Monday next. Play will be over 27 holes, with nine in the morning and 18 holes in the…

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Werona bowls

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 2

In the final of the Gates pairs played on Saturday F. Tacon and P. Hewlett defeated W. Palmer and F…

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Bowls Club Notes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 12

It seems quite a while since I wrote my column, what with the holidays and all that and either I am out of form or…

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Hunter Bowls Final

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 5

The secretary of the Hunter River District Bowling Association (Mr. P. W. Marsh) said last that the final…

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R.S.L. bowls

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 2

R.S.L. teams for Sunday to play against Raymond Terrace. Play begins at 10.30 a.m…

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Night Tennis Draw

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 5

The secretary of Maitland and District Tennis Association (Mr. D. McILwain) has announced the following…

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Football teams to play at Scone

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 2

The secretary of the Singleton United Football Club. Mr. G. Winship, to-day announced the teams to play at…

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Football

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 2

At Raymond Terrace Showground on Sunday a grood crowd saw hard, exciting, evenly…

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Junior Rugby League Competition

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 5

Maitland Junior Rugby league has decided to have three rounds in the A grade and two in the under 21 and…

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Maitland Golf Associates

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 5

In an 18 holes stroke c petition by Maitland Golf Club associates on Wednesday, Mrs. C.. Macmillan returned…

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Australians In World Boxing Ranking

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK: Australian bantamweight Bobby Sinn, appears for the first time in the monthly world rankings issued…

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Tennis May Day Tournament

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 7

Maitland and District Lawn Tennis Association will, conduct an all-day. tournament on Monday next on the…

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Cessnock Beat Kurri in Last Minute. Rugby League Little Between Local Rivals

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 1

Local rivals, Cessnock and Kurri, turned on a great exhibition of football on Saturday before a crowd which paid £245 to see the match and, al-though Cessnock took out the points, many of those…

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Bowls

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 10

An exciting afternoon when the fortunes of the game fluctuated, Denman defeated Aberdeen in the pennant…

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Kurri Bowls

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 1

The Kurri Kurri Bowling Club will hold a fours carnival on Sunday and the following have entered teams:—…

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