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Northern Rivers · Sport

Sport, 1945

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Boxing Melbourne Bout Surprise

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 4

Melbourne, Sunday: MickCaltaux (10-7½) caused a surprise at Melbourne Stadium last night by stopping Jack Daniels (10-7)…

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Bowls Ricketts Bros. Win Pairs Title

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 2

The Christmas bowling carnival conducted by Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Bowling Club was concluded at Tweed Heads…

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Greyhound Racing Stratheden Lass Returns to Winning Lists

Northern Star · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 5

Stratheden Lass returned to the winning list at the Lismorc coursing meeting on Saturday afternoon, taking the honours in the…

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Bowls Holiday Games At Lismore

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 5

Twelve rinks took part in a competition on Lismore bowling greens yesterday afternoon, the honours going to W. Blair's [?]our with three…

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Woman Dies After Taking Fit When Swimming

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday: Mrs Jessie Hopkins (62), of Cribb Island, about 12 miles from the city, who was taken from the water…

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Cricket Competition Resumes on

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 6

With two series of games in the first round of the Lismore Cricket Association's 1944-45 competition yet to be played, fixtures Will be…

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Five Killed Playing "Football" with Bomb

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 1

CAIRNS, Monday.—Five persons were killed at Yarrabah Mission on Saturday when a bomb, with which they were…

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Findon Ck. Cricket Team for

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 4

The Kyogle District Cricket Association competition will be resumed on Saturday. The team selected to represent Findon Creek is: H Lees,…

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Cricket Batsmen Hit Out in Sydney

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Scoring 78 runs in 44 minutes. The Rest of NSW scored a nine-wickets win against Combined Services…

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Greyhound Racing Smart Tiffin Wins H'cap. Close Finish

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 3

In the final of the 505 yards handicap event at the New Year's Day coursing meeting at Coleman's Point yesterday afternoon, the…

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Cricket N.S.W. Scores Outright Win Over Services

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—New South Wales versus The Services cricket match ended in a "village game" atmosphere. The Services captain…

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Bowls Ballina Club Rink Competition

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 3

BALLINA, Tuesday.—In a keenly contested rink competition, in which three rounds of eight ends each were played, at Ballina green…

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Cricket Lismore Plans to Promote Country Cricket

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 3

Lismore District Cricket Association has formulated a long range plan to promote country cricket, and intends to submit proposals to…

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Swimming Instruction

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Over 10.000 children attended 31 swim mine: classes in the country and 16 in the city when they opened…

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Boxing of High Standard at Kirra

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

Some splendid boxing bouts were witnessed at the Kirra open-air stadium on Tuesday evening when free…

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Racing Banned In U.S.

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP).—All American race tracks have been closed down in compliance with a…

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Cricket Teams for

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

The following teams have been selected to play in Lismore District Cricket Association fixtures on Saturday:…

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Cricket Benedicts Win Brunswick Assocn. Game

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

Because of the Christmas holidays no competition cricket 'was played in the Brunswick Association last week-end. There was…

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U.s. Bookmakers Plan to Bet on Outside Races

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday: If American race tracks close down in compliance with the Government direction…

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10,000 Children in Swimming Classes

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 8

Over 10,000 children attended 31 swimming classes in the country and 16 in the city when they opened under the departmental vacation…

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