New Golf Club Secretary
Mr. M. J. Martin has been appointed secretary of the Newcastle District Golf Association. The former secretary, Mr. J. W. Beckett, will leave shortly for…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport
Sport, 1939
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To-day's Sport Cricket
Newcastle District Association.—First grade competition: Newcastle v. Wickhams, at Newcastle Sports Ground; Wallsend v. Lambton-New Lambton,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →British Football London, February 16
Blackburn Rovers and Sunderland played a scoreless draw in a re-play of a match in the 5th round of the Association Cup competition. Extra time was played. In the second division…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Boxing Velasco Wins Schluter Knocked Out BRISBANE
Joe Velasco, 8.13½, a Filipino, who is living in Newcastle, completely dominated the fight against Les Schluter, 9.3½, former Australian featherweight…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Armstrong's Style Bewilders Good Opponents Shocks Boxing Purists
Henry Armstrong's conquest of the heavier and stronger Cerefino Garcia was the latest development in a career that is a blow to those whose fetish is the art and science of boxing, according to Grantland Rice, in a story special to "The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Week-end Sport Hunter Cricket
The meeting of Marist Brothers and Robins in the first round of the Hunter River District Cricket Association's senior competition provided the most exciting…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bowls Win of 64/8 Claimed Pennant Record MELBOURNE
It is believed that a record for pennant bowls was created on Saturday when Rankin's Elsternwick four scored 64 shots to 8 against a Williamstown…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Amateur Tennis on Its Last Legs[?] London
In an interview to-day, W. T. Tilden, the former world champion, said he would give amateur tennis as at present constituted five years to live…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →C. & S. Grade Cricket Ninth Series Continued
Interest in the ninth series of A grade games in the City and Suburban cricket competition, continued to-day from last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Station 2Ky to Ban All Racing Talks Sydney
Radio Station 2KY has decided to ban all talks on racing apart from those given by its own racing staff. That was the reason why Mr. Rule…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Golf the New Layout at North Stockton Newcastle Club's Fine Course
EVER SINCE the Newcastle Golf Club moved across the harbour and commenced operations on its nine-hole course at North Stockton, it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Revive Interest in Racing Group Training Scheme on Clarence GRAFTON
The first race meeting under the group ownership scheme sponsored by the Clarence River Jockey Club and the South Grafton Jockey Club to cheapen and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Warwick Farm's Seven Races: Form and Prospects Trimmer Outstanding in Glenfield Handicap Edible's Claims in Warwick February Handicap SYDNEY
Trimmer, who is engaged in the V.R.C. Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on March 4, should pay the expenses of his southern trip by storing in the Glenfield Handicap at Warwick Farm on Saturday. The Pentheus gelding is to make his first…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Athletics
Inter-city meeting, Newcastle v. Sydney, at Sports Ground No. 4…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →BOWLS Hamilton's Runaway Success
The most important game on Saturday in the No. 1 pennant bowls competition was that between Hamilton and Wickham,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →National Rules Football
Mr. J. J. Arnold, secretary of the Newcastle National Rules Football League, will be away from Newcastle for a week or so, and he has left the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bob Olin Sees Merit In Brown's Boxing Display
Carelessness lost Sid Brown (11.8½) his fight against Max Raynor (12.0) at the Stadium on Saturday night. It had been little more than a fistic Cakewalk for Brown, but he threw away the battle in the eighth round by fouling his man with a low…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Racing Talks Radio Station's Ban SYDNEY
The Assistant Manager of radio station 2KY (Mr. H. Garden) explained yesterday that the ban on Rufe Naylor's broad-east had been due to the decision not…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Kensington Races on Saturday Sydney
Next Saturday's racing will be at Kensington, and weights will be issued on Wednesday night Acceptances will be…
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