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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1935

434 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 13 of 22

Our Racing Letter "The Bigger the Field, the Bigger the Certainty" is No Longer a. Safe Axiom All Right in the Days Before the Before Draw Altered Race Conditions Could an Owner sue in Racecourse Smash?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 3

The old theory, "the bigger the field the bigger the certainty," Is no longer honored by the hard-headed punters of the turf aa an axiom that…

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Best Programme Yet Big Boxing Bill

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 2

The best programme arranged since the the inception of the National Pastimes, Club’s boxing tournaments at Queanbeyan is set down for Saturday night,…

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Rugby Union at Cooma Change Over Suggested

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 3

According to a report in the “Cooma Express,” there is a likelihood of Cooma changing over from the Rugby League to the Rugby Union code…

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Queanbeyan Golf Club Club Championships

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 2

The semi-finals in the A and B Grade championships were played on Sunday morning last, match play over 18 holes…

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Lady Secretary? Queanbeyan Cricket Novelty

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 1

Queanbeyan may make cricket history this year by electing a lady secretary to the District Association. Since England sent us a women’s cricket…

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Preparations for Cricket Premiership Caps Annual Meeting Soon

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 2

Preparations are already in train for the launching of the 1935-36 cricket season. The caps for Sutton, winners of the…

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The High Cost of Football

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 2

The question has been asked: "What is the Tumut club going to do with all the money it has taken this year?" A glance through the…

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Associates’ Golf Qualifying Rounds for Championship Miss Webb Wins Spoon

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 3

Fourteen associates of Queanbeyan Golf Club went, round in the first qualifying round of the Associates; Championship on Wednesday. The…

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Hatchet Buried Football Clubs Sink Differences Matches at Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 1

Though it was reported in unequivccal terms that Canberra Rugby League Club was determined to play the rest of its Cup games…

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Greyhound Races Nominations and Draw for Saturday’s Events

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 3

The following draw has been declared for the meeting to be beld tomorrow (Saturday) under the Queanbeyan and District…

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Our Racing Letter a Good Hurdler in Australian Steeplechase with Chance Fulhom has Excellent Form and Condition and also Experience over Fences A Promising Three-year-old Winner

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 1

An acceptance of 19 for the Australian Steeplechase expresses opti­mism rather than any certainty on he part of the owners of he many…

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Tennis Gordon Shield

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 6

Reidsdale and Coranook figured in an exciting contest on Wanderers' courts on Sunday, the latter narrowly winning by five games. At one…

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Queanbeyan Golf Club Championship to Godfrey

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 2

In the final of the A Grade Championship played over 36 holes on Sunday last, K. Godfrey and A. Harman had a great battle, the former…

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Latest Cable News Australian Cricket Team for India

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 7

CALCUTTA.—The Board of Control meeting at Bombay decided to approve of the personnel of the proposed Australian team. Pataudi,…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m BOXING

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 2

The Australian heavy weight champion, Ambrose Palmer, defeated Leo Kelly, the American, on points in a 15 two-minute-rounds contest at the…

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Greyhound Races Nominations and Draw for Saturday’s Events

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 3

The following draw has been clared for the meeting to be held tomorrow (Saturday) under the direction of the Queanbeyan and District…

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East Side Move for Swimming Pool Council Requested to Re-erect Suspension Bridge and Old Mill Footbridge “Cinderella of Queanbeyan” Speaks Up

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 2

Though. Mr. A. C. Bowers, president pro tem of the newlyformed East Queanbeyan Progress Association, said that the East side has long been regarded as the “Cinderella of Queanbeyan.” the Association, at its first meeting, held on Tuesday…

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Our Racing Letter Rosehill Club Sneaked in a Weight-for-age Race Warwick Farm Resumes the Sequence for the Real Champions. Plans of Rogilla, Young Idea and other Turf Notabilities

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 1

When Duke Caledon ended a sequence of three wins with his second to Barak in the weiglit-for-age Went-worthville Stakes at Rosehill last…

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Tennis Gordon Shield

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 6

St. Bede's administered a crushing defeat on Reidsdale on Sunday on the former's courts. A feature of the match was the long struggle be…

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Braidwood Cricket Club

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 1

The annual meeting on Thursday night attracted a bigger attendance than has been the case for a great many years, about 20 being present…

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