Sydney Racing Identities in Car Smash in N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)
Sydney racing identities were involved in [?]motor accident near Te. Awamutu during a heavy storm last night. Mr. W. Gerns, former Sydney…
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Tennis Resumes on
Pennant games in all grades of the Albury and Border Lawn Tennis Association will resume on Saturday. Club secretaries are…
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At the club night of the Albury Amateur Swimming Club to-night, the main event will again be a race for the Pastoral Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TENNIS J. Matthew, of Albury, Gives an Outstanding Display Sydney
Adopting safety tactics and appearing troubled by the heavy court, J. Rodgers (Grafton), holder of the country men’s tennis singles championship, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bowls Match Postponed
Because of the extreme heat last Saturday, the match between Deniliquin and Moama, which was to have been played at Moams, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Swimming Carnival Last Night’s Results
An excellent response by the public and swimmers last night resulted in a highly successful carnival, conducted by the Deniliquin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tennis Last Tuesday's Competitions
On Tuesday afternoon lest the competitions at the Corowa Grass courts were for A and B-grade players. In the A-grade, the trophies…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Straight Hitting From the Cricket Grounds
As anticipated, North Albury was defeated outright by Murray. The feature of the second day’s play was the fine bowling of G. Kotthoff, 5/11…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coursing Speedy Cliff Junior Downs Douglas Micawber Bookmakers Lose Heavily at Wodonga
Drawing away from Douglas Micawber. Dick Bennett’s “flying machine,’ Cliff Junior, won the Murray Stake, third heat, nicely, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tennis No Surprises in Country Week Title Play Sydney
There were no surprises in the country week tennis, including the championships, which were continued at Bushcutter Bay to-day. The 1938…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cricket Prospects for To-morrow Game of Day May be at Sports Ground St. Matthews Too Experienced for North Billson Park Should See Best B Grade Match
The match of the day in A grade cricket to-morrow, will probably be at the sports ground; where Albury and, the much improved Colts eleven will clash. This should be one of the best games so far this season, as the bowling and batting strength of both sides is fairly even…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Correspondence Our Tennis Champions (To. the Editor)
Sir,—It is due time that some slight recognition was given to the tennis teams which quite recently represented Albury in the N.S.W. Country Week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coursing Only Cold Will Have Acid Test at AlburyTo-night
The performance of Only Gold, at Wodonga on Thursday is a good recommendation to select him for the hurdle race to be decided at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Albury Teams Win in Pennant Bowls Competition
In the Ovens and Murray pennant bowls games on Saturday, Albury Lark Blues, which, were at home to Rutherglen, won 70 to 60…
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C. Nolan (Commercial Club) made a pleasing return to form on Saturday, when he compiled a useful 74. In the picture (extreme left) he is seen striking the ball which proved his downfall. He was caught by F. Scott, off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tennis Competition Games Are Again Being Played in Earnest
After the break while players were away in Sydney for the Country Week Carnival, A grade tennis competition games were resumed at Albury on Saturday. Seen in action on Arnold Bros. courts are, from left to right: H. Manning (S. Matthew's), Miss Joan Harvey, W. Williams, and Miss Lorna Friedlieb (North Albury)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car's Death Plunge Racing Official Drowned Two Other Men Have Narrow Escapes Melbourne
When a motor car driven by Eric Welch, well-known radio sporting commentator, plunged into the River Yarra near Duke & Orr's dry dock, at 3 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When Albury Goes A-swimming
Albury has [?] a reputation of a city of bicycles. And little wonder after a visitor saw such a maze as this. For those who cannot afford a car, cycles are the most popular means of travel in Albury, particularly by those who visit Norieul Park, where the above was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coursing Corowa Fields for To-night
Corowa Mechanical Hare Coursing Club will hold a meeting this evening. Widespread interest has been aroused in the big match hurdle race…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cricket District Competitions
Because of the opening of the grass; tennis courts on Saturday. the Deniliquin district cricket competition matches set down for that…
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