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Sport, 1951

2,002 stories in Murray's papers · page 64 of 101

Diggers’ Races Next Week

The Pastoral Times · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 1

One hundred entries from 53 horses have been received for the annual August meeting of the Deniliquin Diggers’ Race…

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Rugby League Club President Scores Try for Henty

The Observer · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 7

The president of the Henty Rugby League Club (Mr. Ray Wayling) came out of retirement on Sunday because of the shortage of players and scored…

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Football Rules Competition Match Change

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 2

The Rules competition fixture between Hay and Griffith has been, switched from Sunday to Saturday and will commence at about…

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Walla Sub. Win Table Tennis Final

The Observer · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 6

Walla Sub. defeated Culcairn No. 1 by 14 games to 12 in the preliminary final of the Henty and District Table Tennis Association competition last…

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Proposal to Obtain Grant for Tennis Courts

The Pastoral Times · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 2

Application to the Public Works Department for a grant of £150 will be made by Murray Shire Council in an…

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Thirty-five Teams Nominate For H. & D. Association Tennis Competition

The Observer · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 7

An enthusiastic annual meeting of the Henty and District Tennis Association was held in the School of Arts on Monday night, when delegates were present from the following clubs: Culcairn Town, Culcairn Church of England, Culcairn Presbyterian, Holbrook, Osborne Creek, Henty…

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FOOTBALL E.R.F.A. First Semi-final to North

The Pastoral Times · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 7

North and Mathoura contested the first semi-final in the Edward River Football Association matches at the…

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Hume Football League K. J. Azzi Medal Won by Walla-player

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 4

Voting for the K. J. Azzi Medal for the best and fairest in the Hume League was finalised at the league meeting last Monday…

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Six Records Go at Annual H.s. Athletics Meet

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 2

Six records, including one that stood for eight years, were broken at the 1951 War Memorial High School athletics…

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TENNIS Sedgman denies professional offer

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 August 1951 · page 18

NEW YORK, Fri: Frank Sedgman has denied he has received an offer from the American Bobby Riggs to turn professional…

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[?] Rugby League Upset [?]enty, Culcairn clubs lose [?]ames; T’barumba censured (By “Touch Judge”)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 August 1951 · page 19

The Group 13, Rugby League Judiciary last night reversed the deci[?] in three first grade games and one reserve grade game after deli[?] involving unregistered players played by the Henty and Culcairn clubs…

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Ballarat Races Abandoned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Sun.: The race meeting to have been held at Ballarat tomorrow has been abandoned because of the inclement weather. This action…

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COURSING Corowa draw for tonight morrow night

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 16

Sanger Stake: Centollee Lass Dashing Herb, Here Pearl, Switch Girl Jean Kilore, Cobbs, Chanak Lad Yellowette…

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Big crowd at enclosure coursing at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 16

The attendance at the August meeting of the Albury and District Plumpton Coursing Club, staged on the club’s enclosure on the racecourse on Saturday, exceeded expectations…

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Football nearly off at Myrtleford

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

Football supporters who attended Myrtleford-Rutherglen match on Saturday were unaware how close they were to having to leave the Myrtleford ground without seeing the game…

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Pigeon Racing Merriwagga race to W. Cornell

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 6

Albury and Wodonga Pigeon Society conducted its fifth old bird race of the season yesterday. The birds flew from Merriwagga, a distance of 178 miles…

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Adelong defeat ’Roos in a spectacular game of Rugby (By “Touch Judge.”)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 6

In a game that produced champagne Rugby—plenty of sparkling bubble for the thrill-thirsty partisan and that exclusive velvet-likes smoothness that was abundantly agreeable to the palate of the connoisseur —Adelong narrowly defeated Albury ’Roos in the major Group 13 Rugby League game played at Albury yesterday…

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Hutton obstructs field: given out : first incident of kind in Test cricket

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 16

LONDON, Sun.: The dismissal of Len Hutton for obstructing the field when batting for England against South Africa yesterday was the first incident of its kind in Test cricket and only the fifth known case in first…

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Football

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 4

A feature of the second-last round of O. & M. games was the draw between Rutherglen and Myrtleford at Myrtleford…

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Golf Bright Tournament

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 12

One of the most successful tournaments conducted by Bright Golf Club was held at the week-end, over 70 players participating. Winners were:…

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