Athletics
Mat Murphy, 9st 12lb, Tom O'Malley, 9st 4lb, Geo. O'Malley, middleweight, Tommy Ryan, featherweight, and Hector Melville, featherweight, are looking for suitable…
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Sport, 1917
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Cessnock Swimming Carnival Postponed
Owing to permission not yet having been accorded by the Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., for the use of the Aberdare Extended colliery dam for…
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The final heats in the district singles championship were played on the Lowlands green on Saturday afternoon, when some of the finest play ever witnessed in…
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"The game has been revived." Such was the universal opinion of the enormous crowd that was in attendance at the Wickham Oval on Saturday last, to witness the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Athletics. Edwards Knocks Hill Out. Sydney
Llew Edwards (9st 7¾lb), the young Englishman who is now lightweight champion of Australia, knocked out Jimmy Hill (9st 6½lb) in the second round of their…
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Lambton Club will he represented in the Wednesday night competition match against Lowlands by:—Thompson. Treharne. Elliott, Bear, Hunter…
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Llew Edwards is in such fine shape that he is prepared to box every two weeks for the next two months. He and his manager, George Baillieu, will make…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Heavy rain is reported over the Blue Mountains and the coast, and generally over the State…
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Fred Fitzsimmons, Newcastle's crack featherweight, has been advised by Mr. R. L. Baker that he will be given a match at the Sydney Stadium shortly…
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Miss Fanny Durack broke the world's ladies' record for 300 yards at the Domain Baths on Monday night. The previous best figures for the distance were 4min…
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A special meeting of members, of Wallsend Club will be held in the pavilion to-night, to consider alteration of rule 2…
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The following will represent Maitland against Wallsend on Maitland Park on Saturday:—Herman, Sheedy, Johnston, Chant, Oakes Kline…
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The following will represent Waratah in the pennant game between Wickham and Waratah:— Adams Baker Mills W. Wrightson: M’Gregor…
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The following will represent Dangar Park in the match Dangar Park v. Cathedral on Dangar Park wicked on Saturday:— M’Auliffe, king Jones…
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Albert Lloyd, who was to have boxed George Cook on February 5, at the Stadium, Rushcutter Bay, is ill. Tom O'Malley, who has won most of his…
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Lambton team for match on Saturday:—W. Jarratt, Pringle, Hemmings, Thompson, Bruton, Polak, A. Payne, Boar, H. Payne, Batterham, Scott,…
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Lord Hawke, presiding at a meeting of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, said that scores of first-class cricketers were fighting, many had gone, but they were…
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Kid Raymond, the well-known flyweight boxer, line refused 20-round contests at Sydney and Brisbane. He is apprenticed to an engraver, and does not allow…
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A swimming carnival is to be held at Cessnock on February 17th in aid of the local patriotic fund. The Premier Amateur Club's offer to assist has been…
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Owing to an oversight in the draw for greens, the match between Hamilton and Wickham B teams is set down in the programme to be played at Wickham. As…
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