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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1914

1,352 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 68

Football. Rugby League. the Match of the Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 10

This afternoon, at the League Ground, Northern Suburbs will oppose East Newcastle, the premiers of last season, and this fixture can be expected to provide…

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Rugby Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 10

The first competition matches in the senior grade will be played to-day. The four competing teams are East Newcastle, City, East End, and West End, the two…

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Wallsend Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 10

The Wallsend Jockey Club will make another bid for public patronage to-day, when the May meeting is set down for decision. An excellent entry has been…

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Lawn Tennis. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 6

At the Weybridge lawn tennis tourney, G. A. Thomas of Southsea, defeated A. Kingscote, a candidate for selection in England's Davis Cup team…

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Maitland District. League Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 6

The Hunter District Rugby League commences the season in earnest this afternoon, on the Show Ground, with a bill of fare at which none can find room to…

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Late Sporting. Maitland Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 6

The programme of the Maitland Jockey Club's race meeting to be held on Saturday, May 30, is published to-day. There are five events on the card, and entries…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 10

Joe Shakespeare has secured a good match in M'Kinnon and Edwards, who are to contest the best of twenty rounds at Cessnock on Friday night next, for a…

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Saturday's Football. Rugby League. East Newcastle v. Northern Suburbs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 7

At the League Ground on Saturday a crowd of at least 2000 witnessed the defeat of East Newcastle, the premiers of 1913, at the hands, or rather, hands and…

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Rugby League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 6

Fine weather and a good attendance greeted the efforts of the Hunter Rugby League in their official opening of the football season on Saturday afternoon…

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Rugby Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 7

The first competition matches were decided on Saturday, when the City team defeated West End (32 to 6), and East End lowered East Newcastle's…

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Maitland District. Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 6

There was a big muster of the Maitland Central Bowlers on the Central green on Saturday afternoon. The green was in splendid order, though a trifle heavy on…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 6

The junior cricket final was continued on the Maitland Park on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a good attendance of pectators. Maitland Brewery…

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Boxing Notes. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 5

Joe Jeannette has gone to America. In the meantime, Mr. M'Ketrick, Jeannette's manager, offers to accept Colin Bell's challenge to Jeannette on behalf of…

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Bowls. State Rink Championship

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 3

The final stages of the N.S.W. B.A. rink championship, commenced on Friday, on the Victoria Park Bowling Green, were concluded on Saturday, with the result…

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Wallsend Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 3

For a "back" Saturday, there was a very large attendance at the Wallsend Jockey Club's race meeting on Saturday, and the presence of a number of…

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Millionaire Tennis Champion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 5

Mr. Jay Gould, who by defeating the English professional, G. F. Covey, has become tennis champion of the world, has the distinction of being the first…

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Boxing in Melbourne. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 6

At the Stadium on Saturday night Lee Johnson, 9st 2lb (America) was given the decision after twenty rounds of boxing over Charley Simpson, 8st 11lb (Victoria)…

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Boxing in Sydney. Saylor Again Defeats Mehegan. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 7

Hughie Mehegan, of Melbourne, in his return match at the Stadium last night, with the hard-hitting American lightweight, Milburn Saylor, stayed one round…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 3

In the first heat for the State championship pairs on Victoria Park green, yesterday, Beahan and Donald, of Hamilton, were defeated by Donaldson and Thorpe,…

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Football. League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 3

Mr. G. Keen, secretary, Cessnock Fourth Grade team, writes to give an emphatic denial to a rumour reflecting on the credit of his club in respect to a…

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