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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1913

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 10

The protest entered against A. Mur[?]oach, the winner of Rowan's £50 handicap, has not yet been decided. It in alleged that Murdoch competed at an…

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Canterbury Park Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 3

The race meeting held at Canterbury Park on Saturday was well attended. The going was in good order, and the results were as under:—…

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Football Contest. Africa Defeats England. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 5

The Rugby football match played yesterday between the South Africans and England was witnessed by 40,000 spectators…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 3

Bill Turner, the Tasmanian heavyweight, does not like Melbourne, hut has a challenge out to any Australian heavy who can have a £50 side bet provided the…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 3

Entries for Gui[?]loyle's handicaps, to be run off on the Newcastle Cricket ground on Saturday, close on Wednesday. Featherweight champion Joe Russell…

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Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 2

W. Longworth has entered for five of the N.S.W. championships, the first of which are to be decided at the Domain Baths on Saturday next. He will…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 2

Boolaroo defeated Newcastle and Sub. Co-operative by 93 runs. Boolaroo 134 (Robertson 58 not out Foster? Jenkins 15, Alleson 12; Newcastle and[?]ub…

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Boolaroo Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 2

The Boolaroo Racing Club will hold a face meeting on their pretty course at Cockle Creek, to-day. Splendid entries have been received, and some good sport…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 2

At the Town Hall, Maryborough, Martin Dobrilla succeeded in swinging clubs for 120 hours, thus eclipsing the record of Harry Lawson by 7¾ hours…

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England's Athletic Schoolboy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 8

A public schoolmaster's wife, who confesses to 25 years' experience in "a great public school, 'speaks out vigorously in the "London Daily Mail…

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Boxing in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 6

At the Stadium to-night. "Bill" Sonter, a middleweight, who has been doing well of late, knocked out Ernie Zanders. "the fighting printer," in the sixth round…

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Rugby Footballers. Hill Acts As Missioner. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 5

The "Sportsman" says that Mr. W. Hill, who accompanied the Australian Rugby football team to America and then visited England, is returning to…

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Boolaroo Races. a Record Attendance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 3

The popularity of the race meetings held at Boolaroo was again exemplified yesterday, when the attendance reached record proportions. It was fully expected…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 3

Next week Leon Truffier will meet Joe Russell, the Australasian featherweight champion in Brisbane. Russell is under a penalty of £100 to come down…

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Lawn Tennis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 3

St. Augustine's v. Ash Island, at Merewether: Nesbitt. S. Sowerby, Patrick. Misses Ward, Allinson, Mrs. Edwards…

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Boxing Contests. Mehegan Meets Wells. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 6

A match has been arranged between Hugh Mehegan, the Australian lightweight champion, and Matt Wells. It will take place at the National…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 3

At a meeting of the Council of the New South Wales Athletic League. H. M. Green applied for removal of disqualification incurred at Lithgow on 7th October, 1911…

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Newcastle Regatta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 3

Dr. H. M. Doyle has sent us a copy of a letter which he has addressed to the secretary to the Newcastle Regatta Committee, as follows :—…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 6

This afternoon one of the most interesting matches, if not the most important match, of the Arnott Shield series, so far as the Maitland clubs are…

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Wallsend and Plattsburg Regatta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 6

The annual regatta of the Wallsend and Plattsburg Regatta Club is to be held at Speers' Point on Monday, January 27th. The programme is a very attractive one…

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