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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1919

2,225 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 112

Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 3

As the cricket season begins in October, 1919, and the sport will then be on a firm footing, the officials of the association will have to be on the alert for…

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Racing Budget Broadmeadow Training

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 2

The hurdles were out 36ft on the course proper at Broadmeadow this morning. Top Notch (Evans) moved nicely over six furlongs, placing that…

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Cricket Local Preference

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 2

Applications were before Wickham Council last night from Dockyard Cricket Club for permission to play a match against the Naval Dockyards on…

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Stop-press Interstate Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 1

Q.-M. Sergeant Berry who played for New South Wales in the match against Victoria and who was picked to practice for…

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Newcastle Cricket A. Terry writes

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 2

As the interstate match between New South Wales and Victoria will take place in Sydney on January 2[?], no Sydney team will visit this city. But after careful…

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Boxing in Sydney. Humphries Beats Campion. Sydney, Wednesday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 3

A good attendance was present at the Hippodrome to-night to witness the contest between Jack Humphries (9st 13½lb) and Stan. Campion (9st 13lb), which…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 3

Billy James, who got the decision over Fred Fitzsimmons last Wednesday morning, is to meet A1. King at the Imperial Athletic Pavilion on Saturday night…

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Boxing

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 6

The contest at the imperial to-night will be the best inter-district match that can be arranged for Newcastle. A1 King arrived…

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Swimming. Life-saving

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 3

The Cook's Hill Club had a noted visitor from overseas at their headquarters, in the person of Mr. Earl A. Fraser, of Ocean Park, California, America. Mr…

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Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

The competition will be advanced another stage to-morrow with Dockyards facing the music to ironclad A[?] on the Showground. Last Saturday provided…

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Newcastle Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

"Swiper" writes to say that the controversy regarding "Why Cricket Falls in Newcastle" was discussed in a Wallsend tram the other evening. Among the men…

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Racing Budget Wallsend To-morrow

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

Fair fields have been accepted for Wallsend meeting to-morrow and a good day's racing can be confidently looked forward to…

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Warwick Farm Races Probable Winners Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

"Iroquois" writes in "The Sun" today: "There will be a clash between Warwick Farm and the meeting at…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 3

Billy James, Fred Holland's protege, will be put a severe test to-morrow night, when he is billed to meet Al. King in a twenty-rounds' contest at the…

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Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 5

Among the enthusiasts who regularly start in the Newcastle Surf Amateur Swimming Club's handicaps on Saturday afternoons at the Ocean Baths, is Jim…

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Boxing

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 7

Al King arrived yesterday, and is in the pink of condition. The contest to-night will be the best that has been arranged in Newcastle. Al King is the…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 5

That cricket of the interstate order has not lost its hold on the public has been pleasantly demonstrated by the excellent patronage accorded to the two games just…

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Wallsend Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 5

The Wallsend Jockey Club will cater for northern racegoers to-day, and, judging from indications, the success of the meeting is assured. The usual six-event…

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Heddon Races

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 7

The programme is set out in our business columns for Heddon Jockey Club races, to be held on Saturday February 1. Five events are…

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Racing Budget News and Notes

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 2

T. Murray has taken in hand a five-year-old black gelding, Billy Moorefield, by Moorefield. Flament made her reappearance on…

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