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Illawarra · Sport

Sport, 1949

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Golf Moss Vale's Pennant Win

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 5

Moss vale defeated wollongong 49 matches to 3 in the pennant game at Moss Vale on Sunday. Result were: G. Phillips lost to…

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Rugby League Competitions Resume Port v Thirroul at Showground

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 4

Illawarra competitions will recommence on Sunday when the match of the day will be Port Kembla and Thirroul. Bob Searle is still out of the Port side, but Albert…

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Cricket Has a Royal President

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 8

Thomas Lord, founder of the "Lords" cricket ground in London, would have been a proud man to-day to learn that for the…

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Greyhound Racing Wollongong Draw for Monday Night

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 4

Maiden Stake, 500 yds—Ellena Brown, Course Havoc, Hannalong, Valaston Pride, Hinjerroc, Boy Moral, Patrick Chance…

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Greyhound Racing Dapto Draw for To-night

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 4

Brownsville (1)—to commence at 7.45 p.m.—Radiant Speedster, Glendon Beile, Neat Pal, Nunkey, Golden Supreme…

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Tennis Balls Cause Trouble Man Impounds 240

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 7

A waterside water admitted under cross-examination at the Wollongong Court on Tuesday that he had impounded 240…

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Overt the Fence!! 240 of Rosemont Tennis Club's Balls Impounded by Householder

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 8

Elderly Reginald F. Murray, waterside worker, of 19 Dempster Street, Wollongong, stated at Wollongong Court on Tuesday that within a period of eight or nine months he had retrieved 240 tennis balls from his garden, which had been hit over the fence…

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Football

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 4

Conditions during the week-end were not conducive to good football, as a 60 m.p.h. gale and almost continuous 'rain made football…

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Australian Rules Football

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 23
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On Saturday Illawarra tams journey to Trumper Park, Sydney, to engage South Sydney. This is a special occasion, as this…

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Rugby League Leading Teams Meet Outstanding Game Expected

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 4

Joint leaders in the Illawarra Competition, Wollongong and C.B.C., will meet in the principal fixture at the Showground on Sunday. As both teams favour the open style of game, an outstanding match should eventuate…

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Wollongong District Tennis Association Junior Competition

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 17

This will commence next Saturday morning for the junior boys and girls, the allotment of courts being Junior Boys—Mt. Drummond Teams…

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Pigeon Racing

Kiama Independent · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 2

The following are the results of the second race from Wyong. Liberation should have taken place on 3rd June, but bad weather prevented…

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Golf Kiama Associates

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 3

KIAMA ASSOCIATES Kiama Associates held an 18 holes Par Competition on Thursday. last which was won by Mrs. Tuohy (35)…

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Australian Rules Football

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 6

The commentary on last Saturday's games by the Illawarra teams can be sharply divided into good and bad features, but…

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Greyhound Racing [?] Score at Dapto

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 10

Maymona returned a £9 dividend in winning the first division of the Brownsville stake at Dapto's meeting last Thursday night. It was…

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Wollongong District Tennis Association Winter Competition

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 24

Owing to the holiday on Monday, and there being no postal delivery, full results are not obtainable for the week-end matches, but these…

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Australian Rules Football Illawarra Presses South Sydney

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 22

The local team played a hard solid game and were narrowly beaten by the formidable South S [?] last Saturday by 13 goals 11 behinds…

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Rugby League Schubert in Country Team Queensland to Play at Showground

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 6

The Country Selectors have reinstated Kevin Schubert in the Combined Country team to meet Queensland at Wollongong Showground on Sunday. Young Thirroul forward, Alan Fitzgerald, is also…

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Late Mr. William Rees "Father of Bowls" on the South Coast

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 4

In the community life of Woonona and Bull one of the oldest and most respected members, Mr. William Roes, passed…

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