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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1913

1,427 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 61 of 72

Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1913 · page 3

On the Hamilton green on Saturday afternoon T. Kinder and D. James played off the semi-final for the club's championship. The first eight heads of the game had been…

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Yarra Regatta. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1913 · page 5

Henley-on-Yarra Regatta was held yesterday. The weather was perfect, and the Yarra banks were thronged with a huge crowd of spring-bedecked…

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Canterbury Park Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1913 · page 3

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

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Moonee Valley Races. Greek Fire Wins. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1913 · page 3

At the Moonee Valley races yesterday the different events resulted as under:— Handicap Hurdle Race, of 150 sovs: second horse to receive 30 sovs, and third horse 20…

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Athletics. Guilfoyle's Handicaps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1913 · page 3

Mr. J. Gullfoyle ran off his two handicaps on the Newcastle Cricket-Ground, on Saturday night. The weather throughout the day looked anything but promising, but the clouds…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1913 · page 3

Bob Whitelaw is putting in solid work for his contest with Les Darcy in the Victoria Theatre, Newcastle, on Eight-hour morning. At his training quarters,…

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Wyong Park Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1913 · page 6

Mr. Edwin Woodbury, secretary of the Wyong Park Jockey Club, announces that he will be at Mr. Jams Cameron's Hotel to-night, to issue trainers and jockeys' tickets…

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Football. B.a. Rules

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1913 · page 2

The senior final for the third time will be staged at the Newcastle Show Ground on Saturday between West Wallsend and Merewether. As previously mentioned, the…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1913 · page 2

Bob Whitelaw and Les Darcy meet at the Victoria Theatre, Newcastle, next Monday morning, in a twenty-rounds' contest, for a purse of £150. This event has roused the…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 3

Mr. F. W. Lusk has arranged for a team of cricketers from Cessnock to play a Newcastle eleven, on the cricket ground (all-day match) on Eight-hour Day,…

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Boxing Contest. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 6

At the Stadium, Rushcutters Bay, to-night. Tommy Townsend (11st 12lb) knocked out Jack Blackmore (11st 51b) in the second round…

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Wyong Park Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 3

Wyong Park will be the rendezvous for sporting men to-day, when another race meeting is to be held on Mr. George Goldsmith's nicely-situated course. The halt…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 3

Les. O'Donnell, Les. Gleeson, and other well-known Sydney boxers, are coming to Newcastle on Monday next to witness the contest between Whitelaw…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 3

The return contest of twenty three-minute rounds, for, £500 a side, and it purse of £3000 between Bombardier Billy Wells, champion of the British Isles, and Georges Carpentier,…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 10

At a meeting of the committee of the N.S.W. Association, the programme for the season was arranged. The only alteration from last year was the introduction…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 10

In the match Newcastle South Public School v. Adamstown on Merewether Cricket Ground, the former team won by 77 to the latter's 24. For the winners,…

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Cessnock Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 6

A race meeting is to be held at Cessnock on Wednesday, November 19. The programme is as follows:—Flying Handicap, 25 sovs, six furlongs; Novice…

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Football. B.a. Rules

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 10

The committee of the British Association, as well as the players, are in hopes that the finals to-day on the Show Ground will be brought to a conclusion, as the…

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V.r.c. Races. Derby Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 10

The V.R.C. Spring meeting will be opened at Flemington to-day, when the Derby is the principal event set down for decision. Melbourne is already full of…

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Professional Football. Lures to Players. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 5

The "Spectator" declares that E. J. Butchers and Percy Baker, three-quarter players of the Devon Albion Amateur Football Club, have refused…

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