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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1950

2,172 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 109

Cessnock Races On Saturday, Feb. 4

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 12

Cessnock Jockey Club returns to racing with a £300 programme on Saturday, Feb. 4. It will be the first meeting on the Cessnock track since…

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School Cricket Team For Sydney Chosen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 6

The school vacation team to play a combined Sydney A. W. Green team at Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday, January 25, was…

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New Transport Scheme For Midweek Races Sydney Correspondent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Provincial Racing Association hopes to complete a scheme with the Railway Department for special horse…

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Linton Cup Tennis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—New South Wales defeated South Australian by six rubbers to nil in the second round of the Linton…

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City Club's Night Bowls Results

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 11

Matches in the City Bowling Club's electric light competition last night resulted. FOURS (skippers names only…

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Mid-Week Racing Wanted At Hawkesbury

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 12

SYDNEY.—In an effort to raise the standard of midweek racing the N.S.W. Owners and Trainers' Association…

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Speedway Races To Be Discontinued

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

Newcastle City Council was advised by Newcastle Auto Cycle Racing Company last night that, because of losses, it would be…

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South Africa Mourns Cricket Loss

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 12

EAST LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): East London newspaper critics, summarising Border XI's inglorious innings defeat in two days by the Australians, adopted an in memoriam style to describe…

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Downie Played Grand Bowls To Defeat South African Star

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 11

A sizable contingent of Boolaroo Club bowlers journeyed to Sydney on Monday to see matches between South Africa and New South Wales and were rewarded by a series of interesting and…

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Boxing Promoter Placed on Bond

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

MANNHEIM, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Heinz Schuble, a German boxing promoter, was convicted yesterday of having arranged…

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Newcastle South Night Bowls Cancelled

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 24

The games set down for tonight in the Newcastle South electric light competition have been cancelled because of the…

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Racing Man's Estate Sequestrated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The estate of a well-known Brisbane racing identity and business man, Charles Coward, was ordered to…

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Will Return to Farm If Boxing Fails

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 23

Queenslander Laurie Petersen is in the happy position that if his bid for contests with the top-line welters fails this time…

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Newcastle Dog Racing Must Be At Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 2

Future greyhound meetings of the Newcastle Jockey Club will be conducted at night by order of the Greyhound…

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Heavy Track For Athletic Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 10

THERE is little prospect of fast times being recorded to-night at the athletic carnival at Newcastle Sports Ground. Special tracks,…

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Track in Good Order for Athletics

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 24

Newcastle No. 1 Sports Ground has not been seriously affected by the rain and it is expected, although record…

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Cricket Transfer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

The District Association third grade fixture between Waratah-Mayfield and Stockton, set down for Islington Oval on the…

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Kurri Tennis Championships

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 9

The Kurri and District Lawn Tennis Association championships will be continued tomorrow…

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Big Bowls Match At Toronto

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 12

A bowls match of outstanding interest will be held on Sunday afternoon on Toronto green between Dave Downie and…

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Tennis skill in family

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 5

Brother and sister, John and Mary Blacklock, of Western Australia, who have been in Melbourne for the interstate junior tennis matches. John is in W.A.'s Linton Cup team and Mary is representing her State in the Wilson Cup…

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