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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1966

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Bowls ‘The Rest’ Too Good for the Diggers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 10

Queanbeyan RSL Memorial Bowling Club was the venue this year of the annual Diggers v. The Rest match, comprising players of the Queanbeyan and RSL Bowling…

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Rugby League O’Rourke certain to play against Groups 16-19

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 10

League officials said yesterday that Col O’Rourke, Queanbeyan and Group 8 five-eighth and vice-captain, is certain to play his first representative game this Sunday since coming to the area four years ago…

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Sporting Section GOLF Annual Rose Bowl Match this

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 10

Queanbeyan Golf Club will be the host club to Braidwood Golf Club this Sunday, when representatives from…

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Bowls Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 8

Coming events at the Queanbeyan Bowing Club are: Wednesday, May 4:…

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Associate Golf

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 2

The 1966 T.B. Cup competition was won by “B” grader P. O’Rourke, with a 76 feet…

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Newtown Tennis Club

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 6

The ladies’ tournament afternoon held last Thursday again attracted a large number of players, with a dozen…

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Sporting Section Rugby Union White thirds’ close defeat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 8

The early match at Taylor Park on Saturday between the Whites’ third XV and the Forestry School team, was…

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Golf Rose Bowl retained against Braidwood

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 5

Queanbeyan Golf Club emerged the winners of the “Rose Bowl” against Braidwood at Queanbeyan on Sunday afternoon, winning six matches to three in perfect…

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Rugby Union Bert McGrath shows fine kicking form

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 8

Rugby Union war-horse Bert McGrath turned out to be the “dark horse” in the Whites reserve XV 23-3 win over Cooma at Taylor Park on Saturday…

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Rugby Union Whites and Cooma provided thrill-a-minute

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 5

The clash between Queanbeyan and Cooma in the third round of the ACT Rugby Union competition was one of the toughest games seen at Taylor Park this season and ended with the Whites hanging grimly to a narrow two-point lead…

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Rugby League Combined groups crushed Big win justifies Group 8 selection

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 8

The action of the selectors in naming eight Queanbeyan players in the Group 8 side was justified at Manuka Oval on Sunday when it handed out a trouncing to the combined Groups of 16 and 19. The Group side was vastly…

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Athletic Club News

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 May 1966 · page 5

There was a very good attendance at the annual general meeting and presentation night of Queanbeyan…

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Golf

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 May 1966 · page 5

Highlight of the Queanbeyan Golf Club’s programme this weekend will be the clash with one of the new…

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Bowls Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 May 1966 · page 8

Wednesday pairs results: Winners: Hughes and Marchiori; runners-up, Gunnyon (Manly) and Corcoran…

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Indoor Bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 May 1966 · page 6

The RSL Memorial Bowling Club indoor bowls team defeated Manuka Football Club 8-4 on Tuesday night…

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Tennis

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 May 1966 · page 8

Results of last Saturday’s matches in the winter pennant tennis competition were as follow:…

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Women’s Bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 May 1966 · page 8

Queanbeyan Women’s Bowling Club picnic day for May was held in pleasant autumn sunshine…

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Rugby Union Whites’ first clash with new team

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 May 1966 · page 8

Tomorrow, at the Canberra showground, Queanbeyan Whites meet first grade new-comers Lyneham in a match important to both teams…

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Rugby League Mammoth pack bodes trouble for Monaro Western are favourites

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 May 1966 · page 8

Western Division, with a mammoth including three players of 16½ stone, will provide the Monaro forwards with a man-sized task in the struggle for possession in…

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‘Flat bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 May 1966 · page 6

At the monthly meeting of the Bowling Club held last Friday night, it was decided to hold a “survival day ” at…

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