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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1953

328 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 17

Braidwood Golf Club Associates

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 2

A general meeting of the above was held on 15th June. As quite a few improvements have been and are to be made on the golf course this year…

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Football Juniors Improved Form

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 2

Narrowly beaten on Sunday at Yass by eight points to six, the Braidwood Juniors were decidedly unlucky to lose. Indeed, Day did cross on one occasion…

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Football

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 2

Playing in mud and slush at Captain's Flat on Sunday in a competition match, Braidwood Juniors registered a meritorious win, the scores being 5-3…

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Blues Staged a Reversal Beaten by Yass, Q’beyan Played Bad Football

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 3

Displaying a complete reversal of form, Queanbeyan Blues played their worst football of the season when defeated 12-8 by Yass on Sunday, in the Group 8 intertown Rugby League competition…

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Braidwood Football Club Changes to Rugby Union

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 2

Thoroughly dissatisfied with the manner in which the Group Eight Rugby League reserve grade competition has been conducted, the…

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Golf Teams

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 3

Listing Queanbeyan Golf Club teams for Warner Cup play Sunday, The Age on Tuesday wrongly reported that T. Walsh…

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Local and General Football

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 2

The following players will travel to Goulburn on Sunday under coach Ron Rankin, for Rugby Union Trial:—G. Maddrell, J. Maddrell, J. Ingold, F…

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Won Golf Championship for Second Year

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 1

Mrs. J. Comm[?]ns (left), who won the Royal Canberra Golf Club’s associate championship for the second successive year, receives the cup from the associates’ president, Mrs. A. A. Tregear. Mrs. Commins won the title by defeating Mrs. E. Turnbull 4 and 3…

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National Football Narrow Win by Combine

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 3

Queanbeyan Acton Combine were put to the test in the principal National Football match last Saturday by the up and coming…

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Big Moves in Rugby League Plan to Revive Massy Cup Play in Group 8

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 1

Queanbeyan District Rugby Football have initiated a move for the re-introduction of Cup Football in Group 8 along similar lines to Maher Cup matches in Group 9…

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Engineers, Townsmen Confer Swimming Pool Site Is Inspected by Committee

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 1

Queanbeyan Swimming Pool Building Committee members inspected the proposed site foe Queanbeyan’s swimming pool early yesterday afternoon with the Shire and Municipal engineers, Messrs. J. M. Firth and R…

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Football Braidwood Again Goes Under to the Flat

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 1

Braidwood team went to Captain's Flat on Sunday for its second—and last—reserve grade competition match of the season. Though beaten 11-0,…

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Tennis at Sutton

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 3

The Sutton Tennis Club held another enjoyable tournament last Sunday. Twenty players participated. Play commenced at 10.30 a.m. and…

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Football

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 2

Braidwood made an auspicious entry into the Rugby Union game in a competition match on Sunday, when the team, after only a fortnight's…

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Junior Tennis Tournament

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 3

Captain’s, Fat’s newly formed Junior Tennis Club held its first tournament last Saturday, and conducted it most successfully…

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Golf Associates Semi-finals of Championships

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 3

In the semi-finals of the Queanbeyan Golf Club Associates championship on Saturday, Mrs. G. Phillips defeated Mrs. A. E…

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National Football Easy Win for Combine

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 3

Queanbeyan - Acton Combine had an easy victory over Turner in the ACT National football competition last Saturday…

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Power Shield Tennis Kia-ora Enters Winning List

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 3

Playing under a slightly more beneficial handicap, Kia-Ora rose to the occasion in the Power Shield tennis play last Saturday and…

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Beaten by Captain’s Flat Blues Were Given a Football Lesson

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 3

Captain’s Flat handed-out a football lesson to the Queanbeyan Blues for the greatest part of last Sunday’s Group 8 Rugby League fixture on Queanbeyan. showground…

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Rugby League Blues Go to Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

The last round of matches in the Group 8 Rugby League inter-town competition commences this Sunday, when Queanbeyan Blues…

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