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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1907

1,239 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 62

Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 3

On Saturday, for the fifth year in succession the Armadale (Vic.)) Club won the bowling championship in Melbourne, with Albert Park runners-up…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 3

A meeting of the committee of the local branch of the union was hold on Monday night in the Chamber of Commerce. It was decided to carry out the usual…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 3

It was unfortunate for Gordon that Macartney should have been included in the New South Wales team for West Australia. The little champion was missed,…

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Maitland Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 3

Racegoers will be catered for at Rutherford to-day, when another meeting is to be held under the management of Mr. A. J. Prentice. Each of the five events…

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Boxing in Sydney. Walcott Beats Burns. Sydney, Tuesday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 6

The glove contest between Joe Walcott and Ranji Burns attracted only a lair attendance to the Gaiety Athletic Hall to-night. The men boxed at catchweights…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 3

Long pedestrian exploits of the kind initiated nearly a century ago by the famous athlete, Captain Barclay, are not often attempted nowadays, although…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1907 · page 3

There is no new, development with regard to the coming of the English cricket team. The Marylebone Club will send a team if a guarantee against loss is…

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Maitland Races. Flint and Neville

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1907 · page 3

There was a good attendance at Rutherford yesterday for the April meeting of the Maitland Race Club. Fine weather prevailed, and with good fields and good…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1907 · page 3

Bob Turner and Fred. Buckland, South Africa's lightweight champion, will fight their battle (the best of twenty rounds), at the Gaiety next Tuesday night…

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Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 3

Under the auspices of the pyrment Swimming Club, a gala was held in the Point-street Baths, on Wednesday night, in the presence of about 500 spectators…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 3

The balance-sheet presented at the annual meeting of the Wellington Rugby Union shows a surplus of assets over liabilities amounting to £1030 9s. The…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 3

At the invitation of J. H. Gallaghen, a number of local sportsmen assembled at his rooms yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of seeing "Chewey" Williams…

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Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 9

David Billington, the English professional swimmer, who has been on a visit to Australia since New Year's Day, will leave on Monday by the French mail…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 9

A meeting of delegates from the University football clubs held in Auckland passed a resolution affirming the desirableness of establishing an annual…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 9

The first Junior match, between Stockton and Sacred Heart will be continued on the Association Ground this afternoon…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 9

Arrangements are well in hand for the glove contest to take place in the old running grounds, Hunter-street West, between Whitelew and Williams, next…

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International Cricket. Board of Control Meet. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1907 · page 5

The Board of Control met to-day at the Port Phillip Club Hotel, Flinders-street, and decided to recommend the admittance of Western Australia to representation on…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1907 · page 3

Florio Franisch, the Austrian Hercules, will meet Bray (H.M.S. Encounter), of the British navy, in a catch-as-catch-can match at the Oxford to-night. Franisch…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 3

The following will represent Wickham v. St. George on Wickham green on Wednesday next:—Taylor, Davis, Richardson. Oakes, Bowditch, Brown, Beahen…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 3

There was a big crowd at the Hampden Park Oval on Saturday to see the Paddington-Central Cumberland engagement, and the people left in the gloaming…

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