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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1954

443 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 23

Table Tennis at the Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 5

The newly formed Captain’s Flat Senior Scout Group held the first rounds of a table tennis championship at the Savoy…

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Cricket Trophies are Presented

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 6

Waratah Cricket Club held a Presentation at the Park Tennis Club pavilion last Saturday night…

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Weekend Rugby League Wooden-Spoon Teams to Meet

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 5

Queanbeyan and West City, “wooden-spooners” of Zone 3 of the Group 8 Massey Gup Rudby League competition, will meet on Queanbeyan Showground' this Sunday. Queanbeyan Blues, whose…

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Football Reserve Team Makes Outstanding Start

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1

On Sunday the newly-formed reserve grade League team in Braidwood gave an exceptionally good performance in its opening match to convincingly…

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Bowls Win By Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 3

Queanbeyan bowlers defeated Canberra after a close and hard fought game in the first round of the New Zealand Cup at the…

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Braidwood Golf Club Visits Captain's Flat

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2

On Sunday 11 Associates and a number of members of the Braidwood Golf Club visited Captain's Flat, where they were entertained at lunch and…

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Football Braidwood's Great Win in Vital Comp Game

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2

In a match on the recreation ground on Sunday against the improved Goulburn Waratah team, Braidwood had a clear-cut win by 11 points to three. In…

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Football Waratahs Walloped

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 1

True to expectations, the meeting between the two top teams in the competition provided a tense and exciting game, and, despite the bitterly cold…

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Power Shield Tennis Draw

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 1

Three teams in the power Shield tennis competition have yet to open their account. They are Easts 3 park 3 and…

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Golf Win by Miss J. McNamara

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 2

Despite adverse weather conditions a big field played in Queanbeyan golf associates’ par competition at Queanbeyan last…

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Double Meeting to Celebrate 21 Years of Dog Races Here

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 1

WITH A DOUBLE MEETING THIS WEEKEND QUEANBEYAN AND DISTRICT COURSING CLUB WILL CELEBRATE 21 YEARS OF GREYHOUND RACING HERE. Races to be run tomorrow…

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Football

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 2

There was only one match on the recreation ground on Sunday, when Federal Rovers played the newly-formed reserve grade League team. Billed…

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Coursing Club Celebrates Birthday Favorites Won Six Races on Saturday Punters Happy

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 3

PUNTERS RECOUPED SOME OF THEIR LOSSES OF A WEEK EARLIER WHEN FAVORITES WON THE FIRST SIX OF THE EIGHT RACES ON. THE PROGRAM AT SATURDAY’S MEETING OF THE QUEANBEYAN AND DISTRICT…

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Holiday Bowls Game

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 1

IN A PAIRS MATCH at Canberra Bowling Club green at Forrest yesterday skipper Les Bain sends one down. Granger, Jim Creighton and Norman Parkes…

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Equalled Golf Course Record

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 3

Queanbeyan golfer Ron Woodbridge equalled the course record at the Federal Course on Sunday with a well played 67…

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Good Racing Last Night

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 3

Last nights greyhound meeting at Queanbeyan Showground drew a good crowd and excellent racing was witnessed…

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Next Season’s Racing Dates

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 3

Queanbeyan Racing Club has five meetings, in the enlarged district program for next season agreed on by a meting of clubs at the Hotel…

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Football Fiasco Talk of Braidwood Pulling Out of Competition

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 3

What promised to be a most interesting week-end for football fans ended in a fiasco. In the Rugby Union competition Goulburn Centrals were…

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Bowls Club’s New Rules

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 2

New rules adopted by Queanbeyan Bowling Club at a secia[?] general meeting on Wednesday nigh increase the committee from…

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Tennis Club Charters Bus[?]

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 1

Christ Church Tennis Club have chartered a bus to take player, and supporters to Cooma on June 27…

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