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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1936

5,393 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 250

Newcastle Boxing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 15

At Newcastle Stadium to-night Joe Johnson and "Kid" Rooney will meet in their deciding boxing contest of 15 rounds With keen rivalry" between them, spectators should see…

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Pennant Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 11

The Hunter River District Bowling Association's 1935-36 Blue and Red grade Pennant competitions will be resumed this afternoon. The games in the Blue grade…

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Newcastle Golf Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 15

Newcastle Golf Club will conduct a stroke competition at Stockton links to-day…

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Tennis District Championships

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 6

The Newcastle District Tennis Association's day championships were concluded at District Park courts today…

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Cessnock Swimming Carnival Australia Day Events

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 6

The Dunningham Cup, which the Minister for Labor and Industry gave when he opened the Cessnock Baths In November, will be competed for at…

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Speedway Greyhound Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 15

Newcastle Jockey club will present a programme of 10 events at its greyhound race meeting at the Speedway truck to-night. Considerable interest will centre in the N.J.C. Stakes,…

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Bowls Matches To-night Competitions at Wickham

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 7

Wickham Club will continue its night rink games to-night. The unfinished games from last Saturday are set down to start at 7.15. They are : —…

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Hack Racing Reply to Wallsend Protests

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 8

Ald. G. Dennis, of Wallsend, who is interested in the hack racing now being held on the old Wallsend racecourse, replied last night to protests "against hack…

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Swimming Nobbys Surf Carnival March Past Won by Stockton

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 6

The annual surf carnival of the Nobbys Surf Lifesaving Club was held at Nobbys beach this afternoon. Officials In control of the carnival…

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In the Sun Cricket Notes

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 4

Cricket is played at Tintenbar on an east-west wicket, hence the protest against the light while the sun was still shining…

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Midget Car Racing To-night's Big Programme

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 15

With two English champions engaged in challenge races with the best Newcastle drivers, there should be an interesting programme of events at the midget car carnival at the…

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The Sun Stop Press District Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 1

Second Grade: Newcastle. 4/223 v Stockton. BOWLS B Pennant: National Park No. 2 was…

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Hunter Valley Cricket Challenge from Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 11

The Secretary of the Hunter Valley Cricket Council (Mr. J. N. Lintott) has received a letter from the Secretary of the Southern Cricket Council suggesting…

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Rugby League Tour Players for First Trial Match LONDON, January 9

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 10

The Rugby League teams for the first trial match of the Australian tour at Leeds on January 15, to be captained respectively by Sullivan and Silcock,…

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To Arrange Tour American Rugby Union Team Stanford Coach in Sydney Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 14

Although he is visiting Australia in the hope of completing arrangements for a visit by an American Rugby Union team next year, Mr. H. W. Maloney,…

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Tennis Country Week Newcastle's Strong Claims Record Entry for Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 15

Newcastle tennis players must be given a good chance of retaining the honours won a year ago, and of winning further renown at the Country Week tennis…

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Cricket To-day's Games Problem of Wickets District Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 15

Yesterday's rain may provide a problem for to-day's District Association cricket. If the weather is clear the sun's effect on pitches may be the cause of…

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Ten Races on Canterbury Programme Dual Ratio Appeals Bright Prospects in Flying Welter Limbohm Selected for Handicap

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 14

Ten races at Canterburg—that is the programme facing racing men this week-end. It is not often that a suburban card runs to this limit. In three of the events it was necessary to resort to division…

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Summer Golf Maitland Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 9

Few golfers braved the heavy rainstorm which swept the Maitland district on Saturday afternoon. The competition was abandoned at Cessnock, but…

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Cricket Hunter District Matches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 9

The rain on Saturday marred the cricket competitions, the wickets in most cases being too sodden to permit of play. There was no resumption in the match…

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