No Mid-week Races Yet in Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—It is understood there is no possibility of the Victorian Government agreeing to mid-week racing in the Melbourne…
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Sport, 1946
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N.S.W. Win in Interstate Transport Cricket
New South Wales Transport and Tramway representative cricket team easily defeated Victoria by 486 runs to 211 in Melbourne yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Northern Athletic Championships
Followers of athletics can be assured of some stirring races when local athletes meet on the first day or the Northern District Championships at No. 4 Sports Ground…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New Golf Balls, Tennis Shoes, Cosmetics Soon
SYDNEY, Friday.—New golf balls will be available to the public on March 31, and tennis shoes would probably be available by the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop Press Rosehill Races
S.T.O. HANDICAP NEPEAN RIVER CHAYTOR MON PERS…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Armed Guards To Keep Order At Football
HONGKONG, Saturday:. China's civil war is over, but at to-day's soccer match there will be 200 British sailors with fixed bayonets and Marines and Commandos carrying axe handles. FOLLOWING ugly scenes last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brothers' Horses to Clash at Singleton Races
Frank and George Cameron. brothers who train at Broadmeadow and Muswellbrook, respectively, will clash with Plimsol and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mid-week Racing
Members of the State Labour Party are wrestling with the momentous issue whether there should be mid-week racing every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Former Boxing Mentor Wins With Dog
WHEN Ohmi First won the No. 1 Merewether Stake at Newcastle greyhound meeting on Saturday, it was a triumph for Jimmy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ferrier Eighth in Arizona Golf
NEW YORK, Feb. 2. A.A.P.—Jim Ferrier was in eighth position, eight strokes behind the leader, Jim Demaret, at the finish of the second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Entry in Tennis Championships
Over a thousand entries have been received for Newcastle District Lawn Tennis Association's open championships to begin at District…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bowls Green Jobs Sought For Ex-Servicemen
SYDNEY. — The Department of Postwar Reconstruction has asked bowling clubs to engage ex-servicemen as trainees for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Opposed to Mid-week Racing
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The reintroduction of mid-week racing is not viewed with enthusiasm in police circles, where it is clamed that a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1000 for Dog Races at Easter
Newcastle Jockey Club has allocated £1000 in prize-money for two greyhound meetings at Easter. Further details will be announced later…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Four Make Centuries in District Cricket
FOUR batsmen made centuries in Newcastle District Cricket Association's first grade competition play on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Civic Pride to Miss All Autumn Races
SYDNEY. — Civic Pride was scratched today from all the big autumn races in Sydney and Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →District Cricket Provided Season's Records: Four Centuries
Maitland and New Lambton, main challengers to Wickham, points leaders in the District Cricket premiership, are in excellent positions to add to their wins as a result of the first day's play on Saturday in the ninth series of matches…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →C. And S. Cricket Fixtures
City and Suburban Cricket Association fixtures and umpires for Saturday are : — A GRADE: Hume Pipe Works v Mayfield Methodists, Dangar Park; New Lambton v…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Record Rise to Big Cricket
Crawford Symonds, wicketkeeper of the South Australian team to meet Newcastle District Cricket Association's side at the Sports…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →School Swimming Plans Upset
The decision of Greater Newcastle Council to clean Merewether Baths on Wednesdays would mean that from 300 to 400 boys of the…
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