Newcastle's 1939 Racing Programme Opens Some Boy Should Win the Flying Handicap To-morrow Salutation Appeals As Likely Winner of Welter
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 January 1939 · page 1
The Newcastle Jockey Club's race meeting to-morrow at Broadmeadow— the first of a programme of 22 fixtures—will open what promises to be the most successful year the club has experienced for a long period. Fields for the eight events are good, with one exception, the Two-Year-Old…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →20 Are Now Dead in Bush Fires Seven Overtaken When Racing Flames In Cars Shocking Discovery Made at Dawn To-day Melbourne
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 January 1939 · page 1
Eighteen more people were burned to death in Victorian bushfires to-day, bringing the total to 20 since the fires started. Seven were trapped in two cars as they raced along a blazing bush track. The bodies of six were found at dawn to-day. No hope is held for the seventh…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 16
MAX BELFORD, who gained first place in the Northern District 440 yards championship lait night, being congratulated by the runner-up, Jack Paul…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 14
Members of Merewether Club will play a stroke competition on Saturday. In conjunction with this event the third round of the Summer Cup and Summer…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 15
Some idea of what well-equipped women tennis players take along lo their Country Week tennis matches at Ruchenlten Bay is revealed by picture. A handbag is never enough to hold everything. Mrs. N. Williams, of Newcastle keeps a friendly eye on the outfits of her friends…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 14
Tin hare racing at Cessnock will be resumed on January 21. Trial* will be held next Tuesday night…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 14
Three teams share the lead in the No. 1 Pennant competition conducted by the Newcastle District Bowling Association. Main interest on Saturday will be in the…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 10
"Big Bill" Tilden turns actor. The former American lennis star making up in his dressing-room for his stags act. an exhibition of strokes at the Trocadero film theatre, London…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 14
Lambton's fourth grade and D. Mitchell's B grade (club) teams have withdrawn from the District Cricket Association's competition…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Long-range Plan for More Park Lands City Engineer Proposes Zoo, Botanical Gardens, Golf Course
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 8
A complete plan, by which the Greater Newcastle district can aim, with a reasonable prospect of success, at acquiring within the next few years an additional 562 acres of park and recreation land, was submitted to the Works…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cricket No Changes Likely District Association's First Grade Matches Batting Sides in Sound Positions
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 15
It is unlikely that Saturday's play in the Newcastle District Cricket Association's first grade matches, which began last Saturday, will solve any premiership…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 10
About 150 local athletes, who have been In training for some weeks, will face the starter's pistol when the Northern District championships of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Form for N.J.C. Races at Broadmeadow Some Boy's Bright Prospects in Flying Handicap Salutation Expected to Score in Welter Benignus for the Encourage
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1939 · page 16
Some Boy, who has been showing good recent form, is selected to win the Flying Handicap at Newcastle Jockey Club's race meeting at Broadmeadow to-day. His chief rivals will probably be Tuscany and Haughty Clare…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 10
Times have certainly changed in swimming. Kiyoshi Nakama registered 4min. 59 4-5 sec, for 440 yards during his…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 23
The Newcastle District Cricket Association announced yesterday that Lambton-New Lambton had withdrawn from the association's fourth grade competition, and…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 23
A general meeting of the Newcastle Table Tennis Association will be held no Monday at 7.45 in the Y.M.C.A. rooms, King-street, Newcastle…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 22
The fight between Gus Lesnervitch and Alabama Kid, which was to have been held at the Sports Ground to-night, was postponed until to-morrow night owing…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 1
The order of favoritism for the chief Warwick races to-morrow is:— SEFTON HANDICAP Six furlongs…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 4
Sixty members of the Blast Furnace United Cricket Club and their friends attended a smoke social held in the Waratah Buffaloe's Hall,…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 4
Prospector and Melrose are likely winners of the Nursery Handicap events at Warwick Farm to-morrow…
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