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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1909

1,353 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 68

Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 3

Lord Hawke, who has joined an engineering firm at Leeds, will not, after all, form one of the Marylebone Cricket Club's team which is to leave shortly for…

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Boxing Contest. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 5

A boxing contest between Fitzjohn, of amateur fame, and Tommy Hanley, attracted a large attendance at the Gaiety Athletic Hall to-night. Hanley's weight was…

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Football in England. Kangaroos Beat Lancashire. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 5

The Australian Rugby League team met Lancashire yesterday afternoon, and after an exciting match, played on heavy ground, the Kangaroos defeated…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 3

Paddy king is credited with having put £20 on himself when he met Frank Thorn. Peter Felix and Sid Russell fight at the Gaiety on the 30th instant…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1909 · page 3

A meeting of the members of the Newcastle branch of the New South Wales Rugby League was held at Cameron's Family Hotel last evening. Mr. J. Boa in…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1909 · page 3

At a meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association, Mr. V. S. Ransford, one of the Victorian members of the Australian Eleven, was presented by the association…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1909 · page 3

Next Saturday morning, at the Summer Park, three glove contests are set down for decision, under the management of the Newcastle Sports Club. Broadley, of…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 3

In order to give members of the various bowling clubs an opportunity of attending the show on Saturday afternoon, the association decided at a meeting held last…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 3

The West Australian, team of British Association footballers is to arrive at Sydney on May 7, and will be given an official welcome by the New South Wales…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 3

George Hackeuschmidt, "The Russian Lion," and Frank Gotch, of America have accepted the terms offered by the Melbourne syndicate to wrestle for the…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 10

The Senior final match will be concluded this afternoon. At the annual meeting of the Gloucestershire Country C.C. Mr. G. L. Jessop…

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Pen-notes and Pencillings. the Growth of Rugby

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 5

Football, of a kind, is a very old English pastime. On April 13th, 1314, King Edward II. Issued a proclamation forbidding is practice in London, while…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 10

This morning at 11 o' clock three glove contests are set down for decision at the Summer Park. Shepherd, of Minmi, is to meet Mason, of West Wallsend; Breadley,…

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Athletics. Boxing in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 3

Three glove contests were decided at the Summer Park on Saturday morning last, under the auspices of the Newcastle Sports Club. The sport provided was of…

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Boxing Championship. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 5

Mr. Hugh D. M'Intosh, managing director of the Scientific Boxing and self-defence, Limited, Sydney, arrived in New York on Friday…

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Moorefield Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 3

The weather was fine for the Moorefield race meeting on Saturday, and the different events resulted as under:— Kogarah Stakes, a handicap of 70 sovs;…

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Saturday's Cricket. the Senior Final

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 3

The match for the premiership between Wickham and Sacred Heart was brought to a conclusion on the Association. Ground on Saturday afternoon in the…

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Rugby Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—In the Rugby football match Wales defeated Ireland by 3 goals 1 try to 1 goal…

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Rugby Football League. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 5

A specially convened meeting of the committee of the New South Wales Rugby Football League was held in the club rooms, Bridge-street, to-night, to…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Northern Branch Rugby Union will be held on Monday, 29th instant, in the Chamber of Commerce. All players and…

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