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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1939

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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…

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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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A Swimming Champion Smiles

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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Golf Merewether Club

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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Women's Tennis Needs

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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Dog Racing At Cessnock

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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Bowls Pennant Matches Boolaroo Meets Stockton

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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Tennis Ace in Grease Paint

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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Junior Cricket Teams Withdraw

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…

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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…

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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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Newcastle Athletic Championships on

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…

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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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Times Have Changed In Swimming

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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Cricket Withdrawals

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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Table Tennis Notes

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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Sydney Boxing Postponed Sydney

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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Chief Warwick Races

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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Cricket Smoke Social

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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Prospector And Melrose Juvenile Races

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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