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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1908

1,298 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 65

Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1908 · page 3

At a meeting of the executive of the Queensland Rugby Union, M. Bolewski, O'Connor, E. Buchanan, S. Boland, A. M'Kinnon, A. Faulkner, and T. Hennessy…

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Newcastle Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1908 · page 3

The race meeting held under the auspices of the Newcastle Jockey Club yesterday was easily the most successful held on the new track this year. Fine…

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Motor Races. French Grand Prix. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1908 · page 5

The international motor race for small cars the Grand Prix de Voiturettes, at Dieppe, France, chiefly interested Continental motorists. The…

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University Football. New Zealand v. Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1908 · page 4

The second match between Sydney and New Zealand Combined Universities was played on the University Oval this afternoon in the presence of about 6000…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1908 · page 3

Bob Turner will reach Newcastle tomorrow to finish his preparation for his contest with Whitelaw. Peter Cook has covered the deposit of…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 July 1908 · page 3

The programme of the British team in New South Wales has been slightly altered. On July 5 and 8 the matches at Sydney will be against the best available…

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Motor Racing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 July 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The great motor races at Dieppe were witnessed by 100,000 people. In the Grand Prix de France over a course of 478 miles,…

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Test Cricket Matches. Appeal for Reason. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 July 1908 · page 5

Mr. F. Stanley Jackson, the noted Yorkshire cricketer, in a letter to "The Times" says that the advisory board's resolution asking the…

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Athletics. Club-swinging Championship. Won by Burrows. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 July 1908 · page 3

The contest for the endurance clubswinging championship of the world between J. Grimths and T.Burrows was brought to a conclusion shortly before…

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Coursing. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1908 · page 9

The Waterloo Cup meeting concluded at Moonee Valley to-day, when Ella Goldsmith beat Invergordon, and won the Cup…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1908 · page 9

"Centre Forward," Lambton, writes complaining of the action of the local branch of the union in objecting to the New Lambton players playing with black…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1908 · page 9

Of the several remarkable things which have already occurred in England this season none has been more noteworthy than the performance of P. F. Warner, in…

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University Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Oxford defeated Cambridge in the inter-University cricket match at Lord's by two wickets…

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The British Football Team

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1908 · page 13

The New Zealanders got rather a surprise is their second match against the Anglo-Welsh team here on Saturday last. The ground was in a very soft and…

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Cricket Difficulty. Plea of Sir H. Carruthers. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1908 · page 5

Sir Hector Carruthers, in a letter to "The Times," pleads with the councils to review their decision with regard to the test cricket matches…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1908 · page 9

Next Saturday morning, at 11 o'clock, the athletic pavilion, Newcastle West, will be the scene of what promises to be an exciting glove contest between Bob…

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Union Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 July 1908 · page 6

The union conducted their matches on the Mailtand Park on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a good attendance of spectators. Heddon-Greta and East End…

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Saturday's Football. Two Excellent Games

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 July 1908 · page 3

Another bright and most interesting programme of competition matches was decided on the Rugby Union Grounds on Saturday. The afternoon was all that…

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Triangular Cricket. Attitude of Marylebone. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 July 1908 · page 5

Mr. G. L. Jessop, writing in his private capacity, and not as captain of the Gloucestershire team, heartily supports the views of Mr. F. S…

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Athletics. World's Championship. Burns v. Squires. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 July 1908 · page 7

Flies by the Vancouver liner Manuka, which arrived here last night, publish some details of the great battle for the championship of the world between Bill…

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