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Sport, 1951

2,002 stories in Murray's papers · page 55 of 101

Beech Worth Family’s Football Record

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 July 1951 · page 19

Beechworth Football Club is proud of the record of the Wallace family as playing members of the club. Fifty years ago one of the players…

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FOOTBALL Two players “outed” for week by O. & M. Tribunal

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 July 1951 · page 19

The Independent Tribunal of the Ovens and Murray Football League at Rutherglen last evening upheld charges by Umpire Hamid against two players who were concerned in an…

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Wangaratta Races Postponed

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 20

The Wangaratta Turf Club’s charity meeting was postponed on Saturday for a week. Steady rain during Friday night and Saturday morning had…

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[?]orm teams downed in wet weather Rugby

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 23

Yesterday’s Group 13 Rugby League competition games were played on rain[?] grounds and form went hay wire when Road (competition leaders) and [?] Blues (fourth) were respectively defeated by Henty and Culcairn, who shared second lost rung on the premiership ladder…

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Australians’ dear cut tennis win

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Sun: Australia won the International Tennis Club tournament at Eastbourne by winning every one of their 15 matches…

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Football North Back in Form

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Sun.: North Melbourne, last , year’s grand finalists, showed a return to form when they defeated Richmond by three points in…

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Golf

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 4

Below is the draw for President's v. Captain's teams match which will take place next Saturday it would be appreciated if players…

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Rugby trophy point scores

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 16

First count in the Group 13 Rugby League best and fairest players’ competition has been announced arid the point scores shown below are for…

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Hay Tennis Club

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 2

Owing to bad weather conditions no play was possible in the Hodgson men's and women's doubles handicaps over the…

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Rain Suspends Football

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 2

Matches in both the Rugby League and West Zone Australian Rules competition were suspended last week-end owing to the…

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Tennis Dates for Big Games Announced

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Dates for the Australian national and State championships were announced by the LTAA tonight…

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Football Finley Down Deniliquin on Home Ground

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 8

Deniliquin went down to Finlay last Saturday in a game much better than the scores indicate. Due to faulty…

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Golf

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 9

Play on the local links on Saturday was made difficult by wet conditions, and in consequence those participating found par too good for them, in fact…

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Football

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 8

There was rain on Saturday morning, and a drizzle all through the afternoon made things unpleasant for players and spectators alike at the football match…

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Berrigan Football Club

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 9

A Special General Meeting will be held in the Shire Council Chambers on Thursday, 26th July, 1951, at 8 p m. Business.—To discuss alteration to…

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COURSING Albury Jubilee Cup meeting

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 16

Jubilee Cup meeting of the Albury District Plumpton Coursing Club, to be conducted on the racecourse enclosure on Friday and…

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Boxing. Johnson, Gleeson to Clash

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 16

SYDNEY, Wed.: Middleweight sensation, Don Johnson, will fight Victorian Bill Gleeson at Sydney Stadium next Monday night…

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Football Jerilderie d. TOCUMWAL

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 3

Following heavy rain on Saturday night and early Sunday morning the local eighteen journeyed to Tocumwal and engaged the locals in…

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Corowa Scouts Flax Football

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 16

Corowa Scoots’ football team, which played in a “curtainraiser” at Yarrawonga…

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Levelling up in Rugby team standards (By “Touch Judge.”)

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 16

A fortnight ago the premiership four in Group 13 Rugby League competition appeared stabilised, but a levelling up in team standards is in progress. Consequently the competition has been enriched by…

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