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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1930

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Cricket Collins Cup

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 2

Major's Creek cricketers visited Araluen on Saturday, 28th December, and were successful in winning the Collins Cup from the holders,…

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Big Football

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

The third and final Test match to the Australian Rugby League tour was played on Saturday at Swinton, just outside Manchester. Interest…

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Country Week Tennis

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 1

The country carnival teams competitions are in full swing at the N.S.W. lawn tennis grounds at Rushcutter Bay. Canberra Tennis Association has two…

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Cricket Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

New South Wales continued their first innings in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia on the Sydney Cricket Ground to-day. The…

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Tennis Country Week Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

At the above carnival yesterday at Ruscutter Bay courts Canberra No. 2 men’s team won by 5 sets 51 games to 3 sets 42 games in their match with…

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Cricket the Girls v. the Men

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 3

A cricket match of interest in its uniqueness was played in the Victoria Park at Yass last Wednesday, when a team of girls succeeded in…

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Cricket Braidwood v. CHARLEYONG

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 3

The above teams played a friendly match on the Rec. on Saturday, when the home team won easily. Braidwood batted firsthand complied 180…

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Why Football Stars Sometimes Do Get Swelled Heads

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

Swelled heads do not always burst with a loud report and a hiss of hot air Some of them deflate very slowly indeed, and with the infliction of much…

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Cricket Federal Competition Matches “A” Grade. Ainslie Defeated by Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

By splendid play last Saturday afternoon on the local wicket, Queanbeyan inflicted defeat on Ainslie the only unbeaten team in the F.C.C…

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Telegraphic News Sydney Monday, 4 p.m. CRICKET N.S.W. v. South Australia

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 7

This match, in which there was only about half an hours play on Saturday, owing to rain, was resumed to-day, Scores:—…

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Cricket TUGGRANONG v. RAILWAY

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 1

A very pleasant afternoon’s cricket was the result of a match between the Railway and Tuggranong on latter’s ground last Sunday, the former team…

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Luck Against Australians in Football Test Match London

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 1

“Luck wasn’t with us,” said Gorman after the test football match, and he never spoke truer words. Disaster befell the Australians early in the second…

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Major's Creek Races

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

The following are the nominations for the Anniversary Day meeting of the Major's Creek A.R.C. Club:— Opening Handicap, 5…

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Tennis METHODISTS v. Glebe Park

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

A match has been arranged between the Methodist and Glebe Park Tennis Clubs, and will be played on the Methodist Courts to-morrow commencing…

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Cricket the Collins Cup

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

Araluen visited Major's Creek in the hope of taking back the Collins Cup, recently lost by them. They only had a weak team, Dempsey,…

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Cricket VETERANS v. TUGGRANONG

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

In the local Park on Sunday next, comencing at 11.30 a.m., a match will be played between the Veterans and Tuggranong. The following players…

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What Is Golf?

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you may exhaust yourself but never your subject. It is a contest, a duel, or a melee, calling for…

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Tennis Club Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 1

The Christ Church Tennis Club held a very enjoyable dance in the Parish Hall last Friday night. There were about 100 couples present and the net…

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Cricket District Competition

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 6

The second round of the district competition was commenced on Saturday, when Braidwood and Araluen met at Braidwood, and Charieyong…

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Where Cricket Is Different

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 4

They do things differently in the Solomon Islands. The two innings are limited to two and a half hours. There is no such thing as playing for…

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