Cricket
Only once has Victoria scored 500 in an innings against New South Wales, and that was at Sydney last season, when 511 runs were knocked up. New South Wales…
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Sport, 1914
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Speers' Point Regatta. Wallsend-plattsburg Club
The thirty-fifth annual regatta of the Wallsend and Plattsburg Regatta Club was held at Speers' Point yesterday, and was a pronounced success from every point…
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Four rinks from the Chatswood Bowling Club visited Newcastle yesterday for the purpose of playing a match in the morning against the Wickham Club, and against…
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Novice Skippers' Race, for skippers who had never previously won a first prize. Once round. First prize £3 17s and Messrs. G. Froome's and F. Pearce's…
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The race meeting held at Boolaroo yesterday attracted a record attendance, and the meeting was easily the most successful the club has yet promoted. The first…
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Harry Stone says that the newsboys' picnic he announced he was arranging months age is actually coming off at last. The date fixed is Sunday, February 1,…
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Tommy Burns compelled Battling Brant to quit in the fourth round, Burns gaining the decision…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cricket in Africa. Free State Defeated. Capetown
In the match at Bloemfontein, the English cricketers, after scoring 565 or eight wickets, declared their innings closed. M. C. Bird made 200…
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At Dudley on Friday night last, a start was made with the 9st 71b to 10st 4lb tournament, and some good battles resulted. Clarrle Green (Teralba) beat…
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A successful swimming carnival was held at Salty Creek on Monday, under the auspices of the West Wallsend Life Saving Club. The attendance was large, and…
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Johnny Dundee easily defeated Sapper O'Neill, of England, in ten rounds. Owen Moran, of England, lost at the end of the seventh round to Young…
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At Ford's picture shows Morce, Clyde James, of Cessnock, a boxer, and Bill Anderson, a local amateur pugilist, engaged in a twenty rounds boxing…
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T. Crawford writes:—"There are a number of districts from which the B.F.A. expect to get senior teams this season. The districts are large, and I think, with…
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On Saturday night, at Brisbane, that smart lightweight, Harry Raff, who has done attractive work in preliminary contests at the Sydney Stadium, will be given…
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Considerable interest is manifested by the swimmers of Newcastle and Maitland as to who will be the successful competitor in the 100 yards championship of the…
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Members of the Lowlands Club not engaged in municipal warfare will play off their heats in the district pairs and singles competition, and the first round…
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Ad. Wolgast, the former light-weight champion of the world, heat Rudle Unholz, the Boer light-weight, in the secend round…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boxing Contest. Darcy Defeats Hanley. Sydney
Les Darcy, of Maitland, had an easy win over young Hanley, of Sydney, at the Olympia Athletic Hall to-night. Darey had little difficulty in getting past…
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Mr. J. Guilfoyle will again cater for footrunners on the Newcastle Cricket Ground to-night. The principal evente have filled well, and some interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boxing in Sydney. Summers Defeats Evernden. Sydney
Johnay Summers, 10 st 2½lb, and Arthur Evernden, 10st 8¼lb, two old English rivals, reached, at the Stadium last night, somewhere about the one-hundredth round…
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