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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1953

1,987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 100

Table Tennis Exhibitions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 8

The Australian champion table tennis player, Michael Szabados, and the Australian junior champion, Geoff…

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Aust. Bowls Team Back On

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 9

The Australian bowls team which toured South Africa is due back in Sydney on Monday…

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Touring Side's Cricket Record

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 13

Here are brief sketches of the careers of the 17 Australian cricketers who have been selected to tour England. A. L. HASSETT.—Born…

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Teams May Win Again In Tennis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 13

Railway, Majestic, Newmaits and Newlands, which had easy wins in the first round of the A grade section…

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Tennis Stars At District Park Tonight

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 12

Davis Cup players Vic Seixas and Straight Clark (America) and Merv Rose (Australia) will play in…

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Newcastle Boys In Carnival Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 4

Four Newcastle boys are included in the N.S.W. State schoolboys' cricket team to participate in the…

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Air Force Swimmers For Flying Squadron Races

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 12

In addition to a bowls team the R.A.A.F. (Williamtown) now has a swimming team and it will compete in the flying squadron races at the Premier Men's Club's swims at Ocean…

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Bowls Leaders Should Win

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 14

Mayfield, B.H.P. and Newcastle South, which have commanding leads in the Nos. 1 2 and 3 sections of Newcastle…

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Maitland's 'Tennis Loss' To Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 13

The retiring President of Maitland District Lawn Tennis Association (Mr. G. Pascoe) told the annual meeting…

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Islington Bowls

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 12

Islington Bowling Club's team to play R.A.A.F. (Williamtown) on Wednesday, commencing at 2 p.m., is: E. Sampson,…

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Surprise In Bowls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 8

The defeat of the B.H.P. team by Hamilton in the No. 1 grade of the Newcastle Bowling Association pennant…

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Tighe's Hill School Swimming

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 11

Tighe's Hill Central Secondary School held its annual swimming carnival in unpleasant weather…

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Philippines Tennis

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 11

MANILA, Sun. (A.A.P.). —Filipinos, F. Ampon and R. Deyro, yesterday beat A. Mottram (Great…

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Railway Tennis Premiers

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 12

Railway easily maintained its lead in the A grade mixed teams tennis competition by beating Brinks…

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New Bowls Club At Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 4

Members of the new bowling club at Belmont decided to call it the Belmont Macquarie Club…

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Leading Four Win In Tennis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 8

The four leading teams— Railway, Newlands, Majestic and Newmaits—had good wins in the A grade section of…

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2 Upsets In Racing At Valley Melbourne Correspondent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Ellerslie's defeat of Flying Halo in the C. F. Orr Strakes, and Nealing's remarkable…

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Bowlers Were On Top In District Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 11

Four left-handed bowlers were prominent in the first day's play on Saturday of the tenth series of District cricket matches, which marked the start of the matches for…

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Swimming Postponed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 12

Because of the wet weather conditions the annual swimming carnival arranged by the Newcastle Girls' High School…

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Bowls Draws

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 11

WICKHAM: Draw for the first round of the gala competition on Saturday, commencing at 9.30 a.m.: McLeod…

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