Aquatics. Elmbank Sports Regatta
Elmbank Sports regatta will be held on the Lower Stockton course on Anniversary Day, January 20. An attractive programme, details of which are…
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Sport, 1928
3,817 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 191
Sports Ground Coursing
A programme of marked interest has been prepared for the Australian Coursing Association's mechanical hare coursing meeting, to be held this afternoon at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Golf. Waratah Club
To-day a bogey will be played on the Cockle Creek links, both for A and B sections of players. Members' attention is also called in the notice elsewhere as…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sheffield Cricket
Those enthusiasm who are looking to the Queensland term to ever itself with glory in its southern trip for the Sheffield Shield competitions are…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →BOXING Local Boys in Sydney
During the next fortnight a number of Newcastle boxers will be seen in the ring at the Sydney and Leichhardt Stadiums…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cricket. District Association
The grade competitions will be resumed this afternoon, when the seventh series will be commenced. The main attraction will be at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →World's Boxing Champion has Vision of a Million Pound Gate To-day's Test Critics Expect Gruelling Tussle Waratahs Favored Final Match in Rugby Union Tour
Critics expect a gruelling tussle in the match between the Waratabs and England at Twickenham to-day. It will be the last official match of the tour. LONDON, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sunday Tennis Old Question Revived Stockton Club
Though Stockton Tennis Club has four of the finest courts in the State. It is finding it hard to finance them. Members point out that a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tennis Champion? Brilliant French Flayer LONDON
Newspapers are praising the brilliant display of a young French tennis player, J. Thurneyssen, who defeated W. H. Austin 6—1, 6—1. in a Paris v…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Not for Dog Races Crystal Palace Grounds LONDON
In view of the opposition of the municipal councils, the promoters have offered to abandon the dog racing scheme at the Crystal Palace,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.A. Out for 248 Sheffield Cricket N.S.W. in Lead Nicholls Makes Good SYDNEY
When New South Wales's first Innings closed yesterday for 291, prospects looked very bright for South Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Athletics
Much interest has been aroused in the return wrestling contest between Peter Limutkin and George Zarynoff, to take place at the Newcastle Stadium to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Races Reviewed Bowls, Cycling, Wrestling "OPTIMISTIC" Horse Racing Will Boom Despite Opposition Good Prospects for 1928
Racing men, generally, are optimistic regarding racing during the present year. A contributing cause for the feeling of optimism…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Greyhound Racing London
Following the boom at the end of last year, when tracks were springing up all over the country, there has been an extraordinary reaction against greyhound…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coursing Popular Three "Tin Hare" Meetings Good Crowds
Despite the boisterous weather in Newcastle on Saturday afternoon, fair crowds attended the first afternoon "tin hare" meetings held on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Saturday's Cricket District Association
In three games played on Saturday scores near the two hundred mark were recorded. At Wallsend the home team totalled 261, of which L. Field…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CYCLING Racing at Wallsend Gould's Double
That carnivals on the tracks during the summer months are becoming popular,both to the riders and the respective clubs, was shown on Saturday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Price War Tennis Balls Drop LONDON
Following the price war, Spalding's have announced a drop of half-a-crown for the best tennis balls to 16s, and 15s a dozen for public clubs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Armidale Races Entries Close January 16
One of the most important racing futures in the north will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Long and Short of Big Cricket
Schnelder, who measures only five feet three inches—the smallest player in the South Australian team—and Nicholls, the giant New South Wales player, who is six feet five inches. Schneider, who opened for South Australia, was caught off a ball bowled by Nicholls…
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