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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1920

2,426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 122

Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1920 · page 5

Hamilton No. 1B team will play Hamilton No. 2B on Hamilton green this afternoon. Commenting on the recent interstate…

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Football. Soccer Code

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1920 · page 5

Senior A and B grades will be set in full swing to-day, and next week will be accompanied by the second and C grade. Then a record number of Soccer teams…

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Racing Budget Meetings to Come

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 April 1920 · page 2

April 20,21—Tamworth. April 24—Newcastle. May 1.—Boolaroo. May 8-12. Newcastle (Cup)…

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Tennis Championship a Rival for Patterson LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 April 1920 · page 1

In the tennis championship, men's singles final, Cobert beat Ritchie, 6—3, 6—1, 6—1. In the mixed doubles final G. T…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1920 · page 5

Sid Godfrey is after a return match with Jack Green, and says he will stake £100 that he knocks him out inside twenty rounds…

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Saturday's Bowls. Champion Rink

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 3

The semi-final of the champion rink competition was played on Saturday afternoon, when Banks, of Hamilton, beat Tiplady, of Lambton, by 43 to 13, and A…

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Cessnock Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 7

Delightful weather prevailed for the April meeting of the Cessnock Jockey Club on Saturday. There was a large attendance of local patrons, and the special…

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Football Soccer Code

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 7

The Soccer compeition opened on Saturday. Games in the Senior. A. and B. Grades being played. At Wallsend Park Wallsend met and…

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City Tattersall's Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 7

City Tattersall's Club races were held at Randwick on Saturday in fine weather. There was an attendance of about 35,000. Results:—…

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Public Schools' Regatta. a Chapter of Accidents. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 4

The chief event at the Great Public Schools' regatta, held on the Parramatta River yesterday—the eights—had an unsatisfactory ending, owing to a foul…

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Racing Budget Meeting to Come

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 5

April 20.21—Tamworth. April 24.—Newcastle. May 1.—Boolaroo. May 4-12. Newcastle (Cup)…

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Sandown Park Races. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 7

At the Sandown Park races yesterday the Sandown Park Handicap, of £250 one mile, in which there were four runners, resulted as follows:—…

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Saturday's Cricket. Lambton v. WICKHAM

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 7

Wickham were unable to score a three-point win against Lambton, at Lambton. Lambton may attribute their success to the stonewalling tactics of Ellesley…

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"False Pretences" How English Racing is Run Newmarket Scandal London, Saturday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 1

"The Times" in a leader says there is reason to believe that despite alterations, last year's discomfort at Newmarket remains. The entrances to…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 7

At the Imperial Stadium on Saturday night, before a large attendance, Ern Burness, 10st 3½lb, and Art Tierney, 10st 2lb, met for the resident welterweight…

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Boxing

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

The Imperial publicity man writes: Two Diggers will clash at the Imperial Stadium on Saturday night in Tommy Buxton, noted welterweight…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 3

Mr. R. Varley, president of the Hamilton Club, made his reappearance on the green yesterday afternoon, after an absence of nearly three months, and was…

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Public Schools' Regatta. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

Owing to the unfortunate foul which occurred on Saturday, the chief event at the Great Public Schools Regatta—the eights—was re-rowed on the Parramatta…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 3

A further meeting of the New South Wales Association was held at Granville yesterday, Mr. R. Barlow presiding. Matters in connection with the coming…

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Boxing in Melbourne. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 6

At the Athletic Pavilion to-night there was a packed house to witness the contest between Bert M'Carthy (champion) Past, and M'Guire, 8st 12lb, the challenger…

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