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Northern Rivers · Sport

Sport, 1938

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Road Cycling Races

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday:--Because the speed bill passed in the last session of Parliament applies to bicycles as well as motor vehicles, the road cycling…

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Mechanical Coursing. Lismore To-night Excess Nominations

Northern Star · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 8

Greyhound racing will be resumed in Lismore to-night. The Lismore Jockey Club has been in recess for three weeks…

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Success Overmans In International Tennis

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday:--The weather was again very changeable when the international tennis matches were resumed at Kooyong. Play was scheduled to start at 1.50 p.m., but a hail storm a quarter of an hour earlier swept the court,…

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To-day's Moorefield Racing 'Sharpshooter's' Review

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 2

The A.J.C. and Tattersall's Club summer meetings will long be remembered by backers as some of the most disastrous they have…

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Jockey Club Races Nominations On

Northern Star · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 8

With the object of filling the gap between the meeting held on January 1 and the Anniversary meeting to be held on Wednesday, January 26, the…

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To-Night's Coursing at Tweed Heads Review of To-night's Meeting

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 2

Following on the successful meetings conducted at Tweed Heads during the recent holiday season it is anticipated that a large…

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"Sham Amateurism" Tennis Council Member's Complaint MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 8

Criticism of the continuance of amateur tennis players employed by sports manufacturers playing exhibition matches in country districts was…

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Mechanical Coursing Outsider Won Principal Event At Lismore

Northern Star · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

Starting at 10 to 1 in a field of five, Page Boy won the special stake, the principal event at the Lismore Jockey Club's meeting on…

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Swimming. Miss Norton Wins Women's Sprint Championship SYDNEY

Northern Star · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 8

At the testimonial championship carnival of the New South Wales Women's Amateur Swimming Association. tendered to Mrs. W…

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Mechanical Coursing Brevity Should Win Selected for Ballina To-night

Northern Star · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 3

Low division dogs are catered for in the programme to be conducted by the Ballina club to-night. The 700 yards race, the principal event, will…

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Boxing Selectors Defied Trevor Law To Proceed To Sydney

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday:-- Trevor Law, the Queensland national amateur flyweight champion whose omission from Australia's team for the Empire…

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Tennis. Von Cramm Again Beats Don Budge Melbourne

Northern Star · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

After each player had taken a set, 22 games were necessary in the third set between G. Cramm (Germany) and J. D. Budge…

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Tweed District Cricket Results of Play on

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

The series of matches in the Tweed District Cricket Association's competition commenced on December 18 last was completed…

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Women's Cricket Interstate Matches

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday.--Women cricketers from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia began a series of interstate…

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Mechanical Coursing Maxim Lad Won At Ballina Close Finish Ballina

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 8

Starting at 6 to 1, the Murwillumbah dog, Maxim Lad, secured a win from Brevity in a close finish over 700 yards at the Ballina…

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CRICKET. Northern Border Association BONALBO

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 8

The first match of the New Year was played at Bonalbo yesterday when Bonalbo met Old Bonalbo. Although Bonalbo had lost four wickets for 21…

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Coursing Nominations

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 4

Nominations for the greyhound race meeting which will be conducted by Murwillumbah Hospital Coursing Club on Saturday evening next will…

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Coursing Murwillumbah Club Meets

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 2

At the weekly committee meeting of Murwillumbah Hospital Coursing Club held on Monday evening last it was stated that only one…

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Bowls Murwillumbah Fours for Burleigh

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 2

On Saturday next, seven fours from Murwillumbah Bowling Club will take part in a social match at Burleigh Heads. Play will commence at 2 p. m…

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Mechanical Coursing Casino Selections Keen Iris For Special Stake

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 8

Keen Iris, although beaten into third place by the rank outsiders Page Boy and Athlete at Lismore on Saturday night, when she started at…

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