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Mid North Coast · Sport

Sport, 1941

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Swimming. Kempsey Club Competitions

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

Results of the weekly competition night on Wednesday last were: 500 metres handicap.--G. Johnston 1, L. James 2, E. Nancarrow 3; time…

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Bowls. Players for Taree

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

Players who have given their names in to play at Taree on Monday please note that bus leaves Commercial Bank corner 6 o'clock Monday…

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Golf. East Kempsey Club

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

Owing to inclement weather the competition set down for Saturday last was not played. The fixture for Saturday next is an 18-hole…

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Bowls. Country Week. Begins Feb. 17

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 1

The 16th annual Country Week carnival will be held in Sydney from Monday, February 17, to Saturday, February 22, both days inclusive…

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Sphere of Sport. Coursing. Draw for To-night

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

The following is the draw for the Macleay Greyhound Racing Association's race meeting to be held on the Forth Street track to-night (Friday):…

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Picnic Races Red Cross Meeting at Bowraville

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 5

Nambucca sportsmen are reminded of the big day's amateur and A.R.C. racing to be held on the Bowraville course on Monday next…

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Bowls

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 6

The local club championships were played at the week-end. Hughie had the greens set out spic and span, and working perfect. However, the…

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Golf

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 6

The rules of golf, those awesome things with penalties and decisions scattered over innumerable printed pages, are guaranteed to begin an…

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Associate Golf

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 5

Miss Joyce Glen won the 12-hole competition on Tuesday with a nett 48…

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Races Abandoned

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 4

Owing to the small nominations received for the proposed two-day race meeting at Port Macquarie by the Hastings River Jockey Club, this…

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Cricket Teams. Teams for Saturday :—

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 5

The following team has been selected to represent Port A against Rollands Plains :—J. Bendeich, A. Kennedy, G. Blair, W. Smith, E…

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Gladstone Regatta. Success Despite Conditions

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 2

Despite intermittent driving showers of rain, the Gladstone Aquatic Club went ahead with its fixture on Saturday last, and while the…

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Sphere of Sport. Coursing. Macleay Club's Vicissitudes. No More Racing "Until Further Notice."

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 5

Just prior to the conclusion of the Macleay Greyhound Racing Association's fixture on Friday night last Mr. H. E. Chapple (President) announced…

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Cricket

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 1
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Cricket has been a wash-out for the last three weeks, each Saturday being too wet for the good old game…

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Frederickton Regatta Successful Day of Sport

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 3

The Frederickton Regatta Club had good fortune on Monday to be favoured with excellent weather for the annual fixture. There was a…

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Racing Friday Night Next

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 5

Following Friday night's announcement by Mr. H. E. Chapple it was naturally concluded that for the time being at least the Macleay Greyhound…

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Gladstone Regatta

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 2

Despite a day of drizzling showers, Gladstone Regatta Committee carried on with a fine programme on Saturday, and two or three hundred people…

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Frederickton Regatta. Eighty-eighth Effort

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 2

Frederickton Regatta, as most folk know, is the grandfather of all Australian aquatic fixtures, a Tasmanian regatta being the only one this side of…

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Greyhound Racing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 7

Closed Down Till Further Notice. At Friday night's greyhound race meeting, Mr. H. E. Chappie, President of the Madeay District…

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