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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1966

883 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 19 of 45

Tennis

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 8

Results of last Saturday’s matches in the ladies’ tennis competition were as follow : Thistles def. West…

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BOWLS ‘Bradman of Bowls’ to play in Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 2

David Bryant, 35, of Somerset, known as the “Bradman of Bowls,” will play for England in the first world bowls championship in Sydney next October…

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Personalities at the Rugby

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 1

READING their programmes in readiness for the Lions v. NSW Country international rugby union…

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Coursing Club to apply rules

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 2

Queanbeyan Coursing Club intends to adhere more strictly to its kennelling rules in future to ensure…

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Rugby Union Whites take a “breather”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 8

With a bye tomorrow, Queanbeyan Whites will take a breather in preparation for the hardest matches of the round coming up soon…

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Rugby League Kangaroos to play Michelago

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 2

Queanbeyan Kangaroos will play Michelago in the Molonglo Shield competition at Michelago on Sunday at 3…

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Fiat-racing in Germany

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 2

THE START of the season on German flat-race courses—it was yet to be established which stable has brought out the best two or three-year-olds. Perhaps they are here among the starters on Iffezhein race course near Baden-Baden, perhaps elsewhere. At any rate, great interest is being taken in flat-racing, as the first races in Cologne,…

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Football on Channel 3

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 8

Two British sporting fixtures will replace ABC-TV’s late night movies at 10.10 p.m. tonight and on May 27…

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Junior tennis a great success

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 5

The junior tennis tournament on Tuesday was so successful that it is planned to hold another on Monday,…

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Rugby League Yass presents threat to the Blues Let-downs After Big Games

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 May 1966 · page 8

Yass, revitalised by its sound 30-all draw with Goulburn Workers at Yass on Sunday in the first round of the Group 8 competition, poses a threat for Queanbeyan Blues…

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Bowls Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 3

Good conditions prevailed for the triples competition which was held on Sunday afternoon…

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’Flat bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 6

The response to the Survival Day on Sunday last did not come up to expectations…

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Rugby League Blues teams

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 6

Queanbeyan Rugby League captain-coachand sole selector, Don Furrier, has retained the same team as that…

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Golf Course Opened

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 1

NEW SOUTH WALES Golf Association vice-president, Mr. Eric Lusk, of Sydney, cuts the green and gold ribbons on the first tee of the Queanbeyan golf course on Saturday to mark Me official opening of the new grass…

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R.s.l Bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 8

Play over the weekend has further reduced the starters in the RSL Bowling Club’s championship events…

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Rugby League New Zealand selection

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 8

QUEANBEYAN front row forward, John Walker, who has been selected, in the combined Country Rugby…

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Newtown Tennis Club

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 6

Only four ladies braved the bleak conditions last Thursday to play tennis. Seeing there were not enough…

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Rugby League Reserves Earned Valuable Points

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 8

The return of Monaro Division representatives to the first grade side enabled Queanbeyan reserves to field a strong side on Sunday and they had little trouble in…

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Rugby League Kangaroos came good in second half

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 8

Queanbeyan Kangaroos a poor start to defeat Michelago 26-5 in a scrappy game at Michelago…

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Rugby League Polished display by Blues left Yass floundering

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1966 · page 8

Yass had no effective answer to the sustained attacking game of the Queanbeyan Blues at the showground on Sunday and went down 40 points to four. At no stage was there any…

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