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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1920

2,426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 122

Boxing Tournament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 3

Jummer Edwards' £150 tournament was continued at the Imperial Pavilion last night. The attendance was again large, and the sport was well up to standard…

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British Racing

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 1

Furious won the Lincolnshire Handicap.—Reuter's. A convict has only to ask to see a doctor in England; If the warder…

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Adamstown Tennis Club

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 2

At last night's meeting of Adamstown Council the request of the local tennis club for an adjoining portion of the reserve for the purpose of…

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Racing Budget Meetings to Come

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 2

March 16.—Gloucester. March 27.—Maitland. March 30.—Gosford. April 10.—Heddon…

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Football League Rules. Central Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 3

The annual general meeting of members of Central Rugby League Football Club was held at the Hamilton Council Chambers on Tuesday evening, the…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 3

Frank Brogan says he intends to claim the lightweight championship owing to the way Harry Stone has humbugged him. Jack Green and Jerry Sullivan meet on…

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Friends Again Football Reconciliation New Rugby League

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

A reconciliation has been effected between the rival League football bodies which carried on in Newcastle district last year. In the season about…

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Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

Wednesday night's handicap was the 35th conducted by the Premier Club to date this season, and the trophies first and second have been split up amongst…

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Bowls

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

Owing to it being election day, last Saturday was a day "off," and matters were very quiet in the bowling world, most clubs reporting "nothing…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

The opening game of Australian football for the season is arranged to take place on Federal Park, Wallsend, to-morrow, between Abermain and…

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SWIMMING The Final Carnivals

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

Interest is now centred on the Newcastle Surf League and Newcastle Surf Amateur Swimming Club's carnival, to be held on Easter Monday…

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Golf Coal Shipments

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

The Waratah Golf Club will open the 1920 season to-morrow, at 2 p.m., when an 18 holes open bogey competition for men, and an open…

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BOXING Finals of the Tourney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 1

One of the most successful tournaments that Newcastle has known will close to-morrow night, when four 10-round finals will be fought at the…

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Bowls. Mr. Arnott's Touring Party

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

Messrs. L. Arnott, R. C. Donald, F. G. Thomas, J. Hudson, and H. Arnett, returned to Newcastle on Wednesday night after a most enjoyable motor trip. The…

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International Cricket British Team for Aussie SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

Mr. Sidney Smith, hon. secretary of the Australian Board of Control for international cricket, has received a cable from the Marylebone Cricket…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

Willie Ritchie, who won a heat in the Imperial tournament, underwent a successful operation for appendicitis in Newcastle Hospital the other day…

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Swimming

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 2
Also in Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate

The Surf League Club have secured a great drawing card in Oscar Dickman for their carnival on Easier Monday afternoon. As a distance…

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Golf

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 5

The official opening of the 1920 season of the Waratah Golf Club, Limited, takes place at 2 p.m. to-day. Notwithstanding the dry weather, the links are in…

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Boxing at Cessnock

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 8

Nutty Fairhall and Mick Scanlon provided the main contest last night at the strand Boxing Theatre, Cossnock. Mr. Arthur Scott, of Sydney, officiated has…

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