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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1909

1,353 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 68

Lawn Tennis

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

LONDON, Monday.—At the Queen's Club, West Kensington, Mr. W. Stone, of the Melbourne Royal Tennis Club, beat Mr. Chambers by 6 to 2, 6 to 3, 6 to 6…

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Lawn Tennis

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

A meeting was recently held of representatives of the following lawn tennis clubs:—Dudley, Adamstown, Redhead, Hamilton, St. Augustine's, St. Luke's,…

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Fatal Boxing Contest. the Coroner's Inquiry. Penrith

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 6

An inquest was held to-day into the death of the young man Frederick Charles Fowler, who died on Saturday night after taking part in a boxing contest…

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Athletics

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

W. M'Call and Chewey Williams box the best of twenty rounds at Toowoomba to-morrow night. Gray, of Carrington, and "Jones,"' of…

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Boxing Championship

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. H. D. M'Intosh has conferred with J. Jeffries in New York. Jeffries promises to seriously consider that he shall meet J…

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Boxing in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 6

At the Gadety Club to-night Ted Ryan defeated "Dealer" Wells on points after 20 rounds…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 3

Duke Jennings and Dick Crockett are likely to be matched, the contest to take place in Newcastle six weeks hence. Burnett has intimated that he will be…

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Boxing Contests. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 6

A boxing contest between Dave Smith, of Sydney, and George Rendt, of Cubar, for a purse of £60, took place at the Brisbane Stadium to-night, before a large…

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Wallsend Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 3

The weather condition were all that could be desired for the Wallsend Jockey Club's March race meeting yesterday, and there was an excellent attendance,…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 3

Los O'Donnell and Bob Bryant are likely to meet in Melbourne shortly. Jones, of Kurri, says he is willing to meet Gray, of Carrington…

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Cricket. Wednesday Competition Final

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 3

After a very keen and exciting struggle between the Half-holidays and Winn and Co., the match resulted in a win for the former by the narrow margin of 9 runs…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 3

In order to avoid a clas[?] with the Les. Weston complementary benefit, the Sports Club will not run any contests next fortnight…

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Football. Rugby in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 10

The committee of the Northern Branch of the Rugby Union in their report to be presented to the delegates at the annual meeting, regret that the financial position…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 10

A Butter, the left-hander who recently played in one or two matches for Sydney University first eleven, is bowling with success at Hobart. For South…

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The Test Cricket Matches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Cricket Board of Control has appointed Lord Hawke (captain of the Yorkshire County team), Mr. C. B. Fry (late captain of…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Eastern Football Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Eastern Division Football Club was hold in Winchester's Rooms last evening. Mr. F. Mattocks presided, and there was a good…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 10

Saturday next will be a blank as far as the Sports Club is concerned. It was intended to bring a couple of contests off, but rather than interfere in any way with…

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Athletics. Boxing in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1909 · page 3

Les Logue and King met for the second time within the last month at the Gaiety Athletic Hall, last night. On the previous occasion Logue was…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1909 · page 3

The annual meeting of Western Suburbs and North Newcastle football clubs will be held to-night, the former at Mr. Watson's hotel, and the latter in Jones' hall…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1909 · page 6

A team representing the Maitland district met a Singleton team at Singleton on Saturday. Maitland were not well represented, most of the prominent players…

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