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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1913

1,427 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 72

Important Golf Match

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 6

A team of golfers representing the Killara Club will visit Newcastle to-day to play an annual fixture. Special interest is evinced in the meeting of Messrs…

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Football. the League Game

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 10

Western Suburbs seniors have qualified for final honours, and now big interest surrounds play in the fight between Southern and Eastern Newcastle, to see which division is to…

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Boxing Fatality. a Man Killed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 5

A boxing match took place at Liverpool last night between Private Basham and Harry Price, of South Africa…

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Newcastle Cricket Association. Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 10

The annual general meeting of delegates to the Newcastle District Cricket Association was held at the chamber of commerce on Wednesday evening, the president (Mr. T. H…

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Cricket in England. Great Scoring. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 5

There has been extraordinary scoring in the cricket matches throughout the country, seven centures having been recordede in first-class matches…

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Australia's Squadron. Governor's Reception. Athletic Sports. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 5

Arrangements were made for holding the Administrator's garden party in connection with the visit of the Australian warships at Kenilworth,…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 10

Harry Emery and Sam Nolan, two evenly-matched lads, are to contest the best of twenty rounds at the Cessnock Stadium to-night. Emory, it will be remembered, took…

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Saturday's Football. Rugby League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 3

The big attraction on Saturday was the meeting of Northern and Eastern Newcastle senior combinations at the Newcastle Sports Ground, where quite a large crowd of…

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Rugby Union. Life-savers at Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 3

George Surf met Newcastle Surf Club's Tourists in a match on the Association Ground, Newcastle, on Saturday. Johnson, for Coogee, kicked off against a…

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Bowls. the Lowlands Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon the Lowlands green, large as it is, was crowded to overflowing with bowlers anxious for a game with or against anybody, as long as they got a…

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Boxing in Queensland. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 6

A boxing contest took place at Toowoomba last night between H. Pate and W. Cox, The latter's second threw in the towel in the thirteen round, and Pule…

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Maitland District. League Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 6

The programme of matches placed before the Maitland public by the Hunter Rugby League on the Showground on Saturday afternoon was one of the…

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Boxing Fatality. Charge of Manslaughter. Los Angeles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

Jess Willard, heavyweight, knocked out Bill Young in the eleventh round of a contest scheduled for twenty. Young remained unconscious for…

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Lawn Tennis. Championship Matches. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

J. C. Parke defeated F. C. Lowe in the final round of the championship of Europe. The scores were: 6-3, 7-5, 6-1…

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English Cricket. the County Matches. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

Playing for Middlesex against Warwick, at Birmingham, F. A. Tarrant, the ex-Victorian, made 126 Since August 5th he has scored 644 for nine…

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Athletics. Evernden Defeats Picato. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 3

At the Stadium last night, Arthur Evarnden, the English welterweight, defeated Frank Picate, the Italian-American, at the Stadium. In the presence of a large crowd. The pair…

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Boxing Contest. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 6

The fight between Doran and Curran was won by Doran on a four in two rounds…

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Football. British Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 3

Two matches were played on West Wallsend Park on Saturday last, before a large, crowd of spectators. The early match, Went Wallsend v. East Greta,…

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Lawn Tennis. Hamilton Touring Team

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 3

A team orgainsed under the management of Hamilton District Tennis Club, is at present touring the Manning River, and played its first match on Saturday,…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 3

"Battling Nelson" and Ranji Burns were to have fought at Cessnock last Friday night, but on account of the Wallsender signing up with Monty…

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