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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1940

355 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 18

Football Braidwood Defeats Canberra

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 2

The meeting of Braidwood and Canberra on the former's ground on Sunday was expected to provide spectacular football, but except for…

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Road Racing Goulburn Riders Competing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 2

The senior 20 mile handicap on Sunday should prove a very keen race. The local riders will need to be right up to form, as the Goulburn boys have…

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National Football Queanbeyan Club Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 2

On Saturday the Tigers will meet Eastlake on the Kingston Oval, the game commencing at 2.30 p.m. sharp. The Queanbeyan team will…

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Greyhound Racing Nominations for To-morrow Afternoon

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 3

The following is the draw for the Queanbeyan and District Coursing Club meeting to be held on Saturday afternoon next:—…

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FOOTBALL Queanbeyan v. Canberra Massy and Carr Cups

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 3

Considerable interest has always been shown in matches between Canberra and Queanbeyan in either Cup challenges or social games, and both…

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Golf

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 1

Members played an 18 holes handicap in conjunction with the Season’s Eclectic round over the week-end, and although attendances were not the…

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Associates’ Golf

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 2

It was very gratifying to see such a splendid roll up of associates on Wednesday last, when an 18 hole stroke competition was played for the T.B…

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Sutton Football Match

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon a match was played on the Sutton ground between a team of the Queanbeyan Juniors and the Sutton team…

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Reduction in Racing Days

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 2

The State Cabinet does not intend in any circumstances to accept the counter proposals of racing clubs to the scheme propounded by a…

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No Coursing at Goulburn Showground Show Society Problem

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 3

Ways and means of assisting Goulburn Show Society, which is faced with a serious financial loss in that it will not be able to conduct further…

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National Football Queanbeyan Club Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 2

On Saturday the Tigers will journey to Northbourne Oval, where they will meet Ainslie, in what appears to be for Ainslie a very important match, as…

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Defence Department Takes Over Golf Links

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 2

The club house and links of the Mosman Golf Club have been resumed, at four days’ notice by the Defence Department and Colonel R. S. Sands,…

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Major's Creek Reminiscences Old Football Days

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 2

Several correspondents have requested me to give further reminiscences of sport at Major's Creek in the early days. With the Editor's…

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£50 Fine Imposed Publication of Racing Information

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 4

At the Glebe Summons Court on Tuesday, Thomas George Hopkins, of 44 Beach Street, Blakehurst, was fined £50. with 16/- costs, for having…

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Sunday Football Banned at Bexley Proposed War Fund Benefit

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 2

The Bexley Council refused permission to the Bexley branch of the Lord Mayor’s War and Patriotic Fund to conduct a Sunday football match on…

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Golf News

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 July 1940 · page 1

Members of the Queanbeyan Club played in par competitions over the week-end, winners being H. Lee and T. Kirk. Sunday afternoon’s…

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Patriotic Football Match

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 July 1940 · page 1

The following representatives have been chosen from the local hotels and stores for the match to be played in the showground on Wednesday…

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Money in Football?

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1940 · page 3
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A number of clubs in the country are able to show a profit on their nativities. Braidwood is not one of them. So far the club has only…

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Road Racing Fast Times Recorded

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 July 1940 · page 2

Times for both senior and junior races were the fastest recorded this season. K. Carpenter, having his first scratch ride, proved his worth by riding…

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