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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1966

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Rugby League Draw for Knockout

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 April 1966 · page 5

The draw for the Group 8 Rugby League knockout at Yass on Sunday has brought together the four strongest…

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Rugby Union Whites Face Hard Games

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 April 1966 · page 8

Queanbeyan faces two hard, important competition matches this weekend with games against Goulburn and RMC. Tomorrow the Whites meet…

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Rugby League Blues face big task with depleted team Group 8 knockout

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 April 1966 · page 8

Queanbeyan Blues, on last Sunday’s form, face a mammoth task with a depleted team in the first match of the Group 8 knock-out at Yass on Sunday against their…

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Horse Races Ruendi impresses as a likely winner

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 April 1966 · page 5

Boorowa galloper Ruendi should be hard to beat in the main event, the Autumn Handicap, at tomorrow afternoon’s meeting of the Queanbeyan Racing Club…

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Bowls Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 3

Four teams were selected from the Diggers and four from the Rest to play for the Bert barber shield…

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R.s.l. Bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 3

The championship draw for next Sunday at 10 a.m. is as follows: G. Gallagher v. K. Stumbles…

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Newtown Tennis Club

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 2

The ladies’ tournament afternoon held last Wednesday day was very, well attended, with fifteen ladies being present…

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Rugby League Blues have eight in Group side

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 3

Queanbeyan has eight players in the Group 8 side to play Groups 16 - and 19 at `Manuka Oval next Sunday…

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Rugby Union One Win, One Defeat for Whites’ Teams

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 6

The three senior Queanbeyan Rugby Union teams followed suit over the weekend beating Goulburn in the top grades and , losing to Royal Military College in special Anzac Day fixtures. The first encounters were at…

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Rugby League Blue reversal to win Group 8 “knockout”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 3

With a staggering reversal of form on Sunday, at Yass, the Queanbeyan Rugby League first grade side floored their critics by producing dazzling football to take out the Group 8 knockout. Meeting Goulburn united in…

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Golf Best - Ever Captain’s v. President's Match

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 6

The closest and most successful ever Captain ’s versus president’s match was played on Sunday last. A field of 52 players took…

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Indoor Bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 10

Queanbeyan RSL Memorial Bowling Club indoor bowls team suffered, defeat once again on Tuesday night when…

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Tennis

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 6

The draw for tomorrow’s round in the ladies’ tennis competition is: Kia-Ora v. West Queanbeyan…

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Associate Golf

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 10

Thirty Associates took part in last Saturday’s Stableford competition. Winner in “A” grade was B…

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Big bowls day for greenkeepers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 4

The Federal District Greenkeepers’ Association conducted a very successful day at the Queanbeyan RSL…

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Rugby League Schools star at carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 6

Queanbeyan schools, competing in last Sunday’s Canberra Minor League’s round robin carnival, proved the wealth of football talent available in the town…

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Rugby League Allan Bosley leaves Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 10

Allan Bosley, the Yass Rugby League captain-coach, will not continue in the position and the club is…

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Rugby Union Union selectors make changes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 4

Queanbeyan Rugby Union selectors have made several changes for the club’s clash with Cooma at Taylor Park tomorrow. Jack Slater has moved out…

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Rugby Union Ross Smith, Alias the Golden Boot

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 10

It was Queanbeyan all the way in the reserve grade Rugby Union match at Taylor Park on Saturday with the Whites demolishing the men from the north 32-niI — thanks…

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Golf Devlin Sets New Course Record

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 6

World-rated professional golfer, Bruce Devlin, displays his style as he chips to the fourth green in his record breaking round at the Queanbeyan golf course yesterday…

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