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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1921

3,008 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 151

Racing Budget Maitland Handicaps Meetings to Come

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 2

March 19.—Maitland. March 22—Gosford. March 22.—Inverell. March 23.—Inverell…

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Yankee Football Fight For Inches Lack of Good Kicking

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 8

American football apparently looks to an Englishman as clipping a hog looked to the old Norseman who summed up the result of that process as "a great cry but little wool." It is too…

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English Racing Record Stakes Australians in Demand LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 1

The fiat racing season which will open at Lincoln today, promises record stakes. The amount will be at least three quarters of a million…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 3

On Saturday night, at the Imperial, a boxing contest will take place between Jack Finney and Nutty Fairhall, of Cessnock. The following Saturday Ern Burness…

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Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

The Premier Amateur Club will conduct 150 yards handicap for the Joe Morris trophy and Peance Cup at the Ocean Baths to-night…

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Boxing

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

The Imperial publicity man writes: A number of Cessnock boxing fans will be present next Saturday to encourage their champion featherweight,…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

The Sanders Shield competition games will be continued on Saturday next, with the exception of the Lowlands versus City matches, which will be held over…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

The following players have been selected to represent Newcastle against the New South Wales team at Newcastle Show Ground at Easter:—Lambert (keeper),…

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Control of Racing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 6

The memorandum which has been presented to Mr. Dooley by the leading race clubs of the State will probably convince him that his…

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Cricket Morals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 7

Colonel Jackson, the Yorkshire cricketer and former captain of English test teams, speaking at a cricket function in York-shire, said that the Marylebone Club had…

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Racing Advisory Board. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 6

Mr. Dooley, the Acting State Premier and Chief Secretary, has written the following letter to Mr. Colin Stephen, the chairman of the Australian Jockey…

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Australian Cricket Team. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 7

There was a large gathering of cricketers and others en the Adelaide railway, station this morning, when the Australian team passed through ou their way to…

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Racing Budget Wallsend Events Meetings to Come

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

March 13.—Maitland. March 22.—Gosford. March 22.—Inverell. March 22.—Inverell…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

Jack Finney, who is to meet Nutty Fairhall the Cessnock champion, at the Imperial on Saturday, has to his credit wins over Jack Green, Jerry Sullivan,…

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Boxing

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 2

From the Imperial publicity man: Keen interest is being taken in the meeting on Saturday night, at the Imperial, of the brilliant featherweight,…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Broad-meadow Rugby League Club will be held at the mechanics' institute to-night…

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Bowls. Master Builders at Play

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon, at Hamilton, the Sydney master builders met a team representing the local Master Builders' Association in a fiercely-contested game of…

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TENNIS Courts at Wickham

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 2

The Mayor of Wickham in a council minute last night submitted the following scheme for the running of the tennis courts:—…

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Maitland Races Latest Scratchings

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 5

All Engagements.—King's Cave, Boulder City, B[?]enlgonoy, Overshoot, Mao Jack. Identification by finger-prints was…

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Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 3

A. Marshall, all Gessnock, on Thursday, at Randwick, defeated Blackburn,the metropolitan representative in the final for the State singles championship by 31 to 15…

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