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Northern Rivers · Sport

Sport, 1925

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Tennis. Harris for Country Week

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

Mr. G. Harris, of Casino, left for Sydney on Saturday morning, having been selected us a member of the Northern Rivers team to take part in…

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Boxing Featherweight Championship (Reuter.) New York

Northern Star · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

Louis Kaplan won the world's feather weight championship on a techinical knock out in the ninth round of a 15-round title match against Danny Kramer, of Philadel…

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Albion Park Races Saturday's Results

Northern Star · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

FOURTH DIVISION (7 fur,).—Lurchilly 1, Yamond 2, Goobar 3. Winner, 14; a head. Time 1.32[?]. FIRST DIVISION (6½fur).—Angel Jim…

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Killed by Lightning Tenterfield Cricket Player

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

TENTERFIELD, Monday.—While fielding in a cricket match on Saturday afternoon, Thomas Roos, a married man with a family, was struck dead by…

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The Turf Mullumbimby Races New Grandstand Opened

Northern Star · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

MULLUMBIMBY, Saturday.—The Mullumbimby Race Club held a meeting to-day. The weather was fine and the course in splendid order…

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Cricket First Grade Victory Combined Seconds Fail

Northern Star · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

A match was played at the Recreation Ground on Saturday between combined first and second grade teams in the Lismore competition. Myers (first grade) won the toss…

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Struck Dead. Tenterfield Man Killed By Lightning While Playing Cricket

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

TENTERFIELD, Saturday.---While fielding in a cricket match here this afternoon, Thomas Roos, a married man with a family, was struck dead by…

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Struck by Lightning Tenterfield Cricketer Killed Tragedy During Cricket Match

Northern Star · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 5

TENTERFIELD, Saturday.—During a severe thunderstorm which passed over the town this afternoon, Mr. Thomas Roos, a dairy farmer, of Sunnysid, was struck…

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Football. All Blacks. Record Tour Ends. England Defeated by 17 to 11

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

The All Blacks concluded their record breaking tour on Saturday, when the defeated England by 17 points to 11. The match created tremendous…

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Cricket. Second Test Match. England Faces Big Task. Hobbs and Sutcliffe Excel

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

Faced with Australia's record score of 600 runs, Hobbs and Sutcliffe opened for England in the second Test match at Melbourne on Saturday, the first ball…

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Bowls Lismore Club Notes

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

Following are the results o-f Saturday's play on the Lismore green- No. 2 Rink.—King, Ducrow, James, 37; Hodge, Fraser, Ockwell, 21…

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Pony Racing Evil

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Rev. D. P. Brandt in an address at Chalmers Church declared that the community was so saturated in pony racing that the effect was…

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District Cricket

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

Two interesting fixtures for the Tweed players take place this month Tweed plays Dunoon, at Dunoon, on Saturday, January 24, and a Lismore…

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While Mothers Bet. Children Cry for Bread. A Clergyman on Horse Racing

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.--Rev. D. F. Brandt, in an address at Chalmers Church, declared that the community was so saturated in pony racing that…

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Percy Mcdonald. Arrested in Adelaide. Meeting with Detective at Morpethville Races

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday.--Percy Archibald McDonald, who made a sensational escape from the Supreme Court, Sydney, about two months ago,…

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Exciting Cricket Sensation Follows Sensation in Melbourne Test England Collapses Later Batsmen Fail to Drive Big Advantage Home Australia's Bad Start

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.-—The fourth' day of the second test match was full of incident. Sutcliffe and Hobbs had given England a splendid start as the result of having batted all day Saturday, hut Hobbs went to-day in the first over, and though Sutcliffe stayed a long while, the other…

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Boxing

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 4

Louis Kaplan won the world's featherweight championship on a technical knockout in the ninth round of a 15- round title match against Danny…

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Bowls

The Kyogle Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

The popularity of bowls has grown somewhat since that day when Blake played the historic and memorable game just prior to…

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Street Cricket

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 11

A man who had suffered much at the hands of a band of youthful cricketers who persisted in sending their ball over the garden wall, succeeded in catching one of…

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Cricket Results

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 5

Intense interest was evinced in the progress of the test match in Casino to-day. In order to satisfy the very natural…

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