Tennis Finance District Park Courts Lease Suggested
The question of the successful financing of the District Park turf courts has been causing concern to the members of the ground committee…
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Sport, 1928
3,817 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 191
"Why Not?" To Races in Coal Lorry
A recommendation Try the traffic committee, to Wallsend Council last night, urged that lorries used for coal-carting should not be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Selections for Canterbury Park and Newcastle Races CANTERBURY Seven Races To-morrow Poilena Selected Sydney
Poilena failed at Rosehill last week, but she is afforded an opportunity to make amends in the Canterbury Park Handicap to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Success Armidale Racing Carnival Chrysotta's Day Armidale
Despite the inclement weather conditions in the morning and early in the afternoon a large crowd attended the second day of the Armidale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"It Ees Not True" French Tennis Star's Denial SYDNEY
Join Borotra denied to-day the report that he had received a cable message from the French Lawn Tennis Association, calling on the team to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Races Winners Will Be Hard to Find Open Fields Keen Contests Likely in All Events
Winners will be hard to find at the Newcastle Jockey Club's race meeting to-morrow. The handicapper has done his work well. F. Guy the Adamstowm trainer has been winning a race each week and has a strong team entered for the meeting. It is likely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Merewether and Waratah may Contest Cricket Premiership No Stepping-stone Wrestler Limutkin's View Match with Manelly
Peter Limulkin, the Polish wrestler, who meets Art Manelly, Irish and English heavyweight, wrestling champion, at the Stadium to-morrow night, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Cricket Ninth Series Begins To-morrow First Grade Games Can Lambton-New Lambton Beat Merewether?
The ninth series of fixtures in the district association's Light and Winn Shield competition will be commenced to-morrow, when Merewether will meet Lambton-New Lambton at the Sports Ground…
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Particulars are advised of a £20 stake to be run at Hexham to-day, if 27 double nominations are received…
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At a meeting of the executive of the New South Wales Bowling Association, on Thursday night, it was decided to replay the fourth and fifth rounds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Speedway Coursing
The Newcastle Coursing and Sporting Club, Limited, will conduct another of its popular, coursing meetings at the Speedway Coursing Grounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Boxing in Sydney Sydney
Tommy Uron, the ex-champion, made an unsuccessful attempt to re-enter the boxing game to-night when he met Ted Monson in a bout scheduled to go twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cricket. District Association
A commencement will be made this afternoon with the ninth series of matches for the possession of the Light and Winn shields…
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A 15-round boxing contest for the European featherweight championship between Quadrini, the Italian title holder, and Knud Larsen, Danish…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coursing in Sydney Opposition to Horses. Sydney
The Greyhound Coursing Association, which conducts mechanical hare coursing meeting at Epping, has decided to stage fixtures each Saturday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Greyhound Racing Sports Ground Meeting
A hurdle event has been included on the programme which will be conducted by the Cessnock Electric Coursing Association, Ltd., at the Cessnock Sports…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tennis Championships Cummings in Final. Sydney
The Australian tennis championships were continued at the White City courts to-day, in fine and hot weather. There was a fair crowd present when R. O…
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Peter Limutkin and Art Manelly, heavyweight wrestling champion of England and Ireland, will wrestle six ten-minute catch-as-catch-can rounds…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →French Tennis Officials Ridicule the Suggestion of Borotra's Recall "RIDICULOUS" Borotra Was Not Recalled Surprised Officials "We Wouldn't Dream of It for a Moment"
Officials of the French Lawn Tennis Association ridicule the suggestion that [?]ean Borotra and the other French tennis stars had been recalled. "We wouldn't dream for one moment of recalling them before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boxing Tournament
Scores in the Royal Navy-Cambridge University annual boxing tournament at Portsmouth were 12 points all when Sub-Lieutenant L. A. Eunson-Campbell,…
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