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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1909

67 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

Football. Cooma V. Queanbeyan. the Teams

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 8

Warrigals.—Full-back, J. Royal; three quarters, C. Williams, B. Dudley, J. Lee, J. Burn; five-eighth, C. Parker; half, W. Hawes forwards, E. Dunchea, J. Miller, F. Kaye, A…

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Dull Cricket. Some Suggestions

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 3

To those whose experience of English cricket extends across the years it becomes more end more evident that the standard of play of the highest class is…

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Cricket

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Half-Holiday Cricket Club was held at Shrives' Commercial Hotel on the evening of Wednesday last. There was a good attendance, Mr. W. Ford…

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Poverty Football

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 September 1909 · page 3

"They must be a very poor team," remarked Selina, who was attending her first football-match, to her young many referring to the home eleven,…

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Country Cricket Team for Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 September 1909 · page 2

MR. J. SEARLE of the Imperial Arcade, Pitt-street, Sydney, who has once more lent a helping hand to assist in arranging the programme of matches in connection with the…

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Queanbeyan Cricket Club

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 2

MR. R. R. HETHERINGTON, one of the vice presidents of the Queanbeyan Cricket Club presided over the annual meeting held at the School of Arts last night…

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Boxing Contest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 September 1909 · page 2

MICK McGILLAN of Queanbeyan, 11st 51b, and Bert O'Connell, 11st 41b, have been matched to box the best of 20 rounds in the Protestant Hall, Queanbeyan, on the night…

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Tennis Match

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 September 1909 · page 2

THE Molonglo knights of the racquet journeyed to Queanbeyan on Saturday last, to try strings with the Queanbeyan players. The day wore a threatening appearance, but…

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Native Races. South African Appeal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 October 1909 · page 3

The Hon. W. P. Schreiner, K.C. (late Prime Minister of Cape Colony), Dr. Abdurahman, and other delegates from South Africa who have come to London…

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Boxing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 5

THE following entries have been received for the gold medal presented by Mr. S. B. Shrives:—Peter Long, Arthur McKenzie, "Snowy" Richmond…

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Cricket Match

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 2

A SCRATCH match will be played in the park to-morrow afternoon between teams representing the married and single members of the Half-holiday…

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Close of the Racing Carnival

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 October 1909 · page 2

THE Metropolitan Spring racing carnival doted od Saturday, and we arc now having a return of the visitors from this district who bait their steps citywards to participate in the excitement that…

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Boxing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 October 1909 · page 2

IN addition to the medal valued at 15s, presented by Mr. S. B. Shrives of the Commercial Hotel, for the local boxing competitions to-morrow night, Messrs…

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Boxing. McGILLAN—O'CONNELL CONTEST

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2

ON Saturday night last, in the Protestant Hall, before a good audience, the contest between Mick McGillan of Queanbeyan, and Bert O'Connell of…

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Cricket

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 2

A TEAM of country cricketers selected to play a series of matches in Sydney will commence their programme on the 9th November when they meet I…

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Tennis Match

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 October 1909 · page 2

ON Saturday last a team of tennis players paid a visit to Molonglo to engage a team representing that place in a return match. The day was a perfect one and the country around…

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Krawarree Tennis Club

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 October 1909 · page 2

THE meeting which is called for the 13th November next of the members of the Krawarree Tennis Club is for the purpose of deciding what shall be done with proceeds of the ball…

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House Cricket. an Unexplained Decline

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 November 1909 · page 4

Thirty, twenty, or even ten years ago a young man, with good manners, who had played in either University eleven or was capable of making a century for…

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V.r.c. Races

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 November 1909 · page 2

MELBOURNE CUP, of 30 sovs. each with 5000 sovs. added, and a trophy valued at 100 sovs.; second 1000 sovs.; third 500 sovs. Two miles…

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Tennis Match

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 November 1909 · page 2

THE team of tennis players who visited Cooma yesterday speak in glowing terms of the treatment meted out to them by the Cooma Club. They were right royally…

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