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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Sport

Sport, 1933

1,332 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 6 of 67

Electrocuted on Iron Roof Boys' Fatal Search for Cricket Ball

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 3

A faulty contact due to a loose conduit, is believed to have been responsible for the escape of electricity on to the iron roof of a verandah at…

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Racing in the Mud at Canterbury Rank Outsider Underwood Wins at 33-1. Sydney's Best Sprinters Leaving for Victorian Carnival

Western Champion · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 16

Former exclusive "horse" club Moorefield considered it undignified no doubt if it considered the matter at all, to go to Rosebery to race when its own course was out of order as the result of the floods and it chose Canterbury Park which was, perhaps in a worse state. Roseberry is the wet weather course of Sydney and would have been the ideal venue for Saturday's meeting…

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Athletic Club Special Meeting

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 4

A special meeting of the West Wyalong Athletic and Cycle Club was held in Butler's Furniture Depot, on Tuesday evening, when the…

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Cowra Golf Club

Cowra Free Press · Monday 6 February 1933 · page 4

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Club will be held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday, February 15, 1933, at…

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Test Cricket in Sydney. Concession Ground Tickets Obtainable at Railway Stations

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 6 February 1933 · page 2

Excursion train arrangements are generally well known, and, it is not necessary to emphasise, are greatly appreciated. To-day, however, we…

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Injured at Cricket Young Man Seriously Ill. Concussion and Probable Fracture of the Skull

Cowra Free Press · Monday 6 February 1933 · page 4

While playing cricket at Greenethorpe yesterday a young man named Norman Wilson Whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo…

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Cricket Notes Eugowra Routed. Cowra Win by Over 300 Runs. Visitors Prove Themselves Good Sports

Cowra Free Press · Monday 6 February 1933 · page 1

Although beaten by over 300 runs the Eugowra team which visited Cowra yesterday went away from here with a name…

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Cricket

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1933 · page 3

On Sunday last the West Wyalong Cricket Competition was continued, when the Colts and Seniors played a drawn game, the Seniors knocking up…

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W. Tennis Club Exhibition Tennis

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1933 · page 3

We have been informtd by the Secretary of the West Wyalong Tennis Club that negotiations are under way to have soem of Australia's leading…

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BOXING Australian Flyweight Title

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1933 · page 3

Owing to the retirement of Vic. White, holder of the Australian flyweight boxing championship, Leichardt Stadium directors have decided…

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Test Cricket in Sydney Concession Ground Tickets Obtainable at Railway Stations

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1933 · page 3

Excursion train arrangements are generally well known, and it is not necessary to emphasise, are greatly appreciated. To-day, however, we have…

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Swimming Notes

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 5

With our carnival only a week away, Condo.'s swimmers and divers are beginning to take things seriously, and several of the lads already have…

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Test Cricket in Sydney Concession Ground Tickets Obtainable At Railway Stations

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 5

Excursion train arrangements are generally well known, and, it is not necessary to. emphasise, are greatly appreciated. Today, however, we have…

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Cricket Notes

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 2
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Claude O'Brien played four beautiful shots to square leg for boundary strokes. He failed badly in the field, and he only dropped five…

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Cricket Accident

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 2

So serious was the knock Norman Wilson received on Sunday that it was necessary for him to be taken to the Cowra District Hospital…

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Cricket. the Jonesites v. PURDYITES

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 2

And [?]o, it came to pass pat the reaping hooks of the tribe of Jones being put away and the seed gathered into barns, and the flocks and…

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A Sportsman Takes Forbes Hotel Golf, Football, Shooting

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 1

Designated by his friends in Young as a "popular sportsman," Mr. Joe Simons, formerly of the Hotel Young, has taken over the…

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Swimming Carnival

Western Champion · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 9

A good programme has been cut out for the swimming carnival at the Municipal swimming pool on Wednesday afternoon next, February 15…

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Cricket

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 5

The West Wyalong Cricket Competition will be continued on Sunday next when Buddigower will visit West Wyalong and play the Colts…

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