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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1968

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Captain’s Flat News Rugby League Redmen triumph over Bungendore

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 July 1968 · page 6

Captain’s Flat proved too good for Bungendore in the long-awaited Rugby League competition match, played at the Flat on Sunday. The final score favoured…

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Rugby League Cooma Knockout Blues did well to reach final

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 July 1968 · page 8

Queanbeyan United’s injury-stricken squad did well to reach the final of Sunday’s Caltex knockout at Cooma, in which they went down to Canberra…

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GOLF Memorial trophy

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 July 1968 · page 8

A trophy has been donated to the Queanbeyan Golf Club by the family of the late Brian…

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Rugby League Grimmond is unlikely through injury

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 July 1968 · page 8

Star Queanbeyan United Winger David Grimmond is unlikely to take his place in the Blues’ team to meet Goulburn United in the Zone II competition…

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Rugby Union Whites striving for third successive win

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 July 1968 · page 8

At the Seiffert Sportsground tomorrow afternoon, Queanbeyan Whites will be striving for their third win in a row when they meet Cooma, Despite their position on…

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Rugby League Young clash vital for the Kangaroos

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 July 1968 · page 8

To the Queanbeyan Kangaroos, Sunday’s Zone II game against Young is almost as important as a final. If the ’Roos lose, their chances of making the semi-final will be remote. Despite Young’s…

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’Flat bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 6

With Friday and Saturday being two of the mildest days for some time, the green was in…

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Bowls Note

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 8

The Sunday morning, “turkey triples” attracted 42 players and despite a keen breeze all players…

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Associates’ golf

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 8

Last Thursday, in wet weather, the Queanbeyan Bronze Shield team defeated Yowani 3 to 1 to…

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Rugby League Blue team unchanged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 5

Queanbeyan United Rugby League coach and sole selector Don Furner has made no changes in…

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RSL bowls (By Publicity Officer)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 2

Semi-finals of the triples championship were played on Saturday and results are as…

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Rugby Union Whites were lucky against Cooma

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 8

The Whites recorded their third victory in succession on Saturday against Cooma at Seiffert Oval 12-8,- but were lucky to avoid defeat. Cooma led until well into…

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Rugby Union Field day for White thirds

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 8

Queanbeyan third grade had a field day against a weak RMG fourths on Saturdays defeating them…

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Rugby League Young finished too strongly for ’Roos

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 5

Favoured by a scrum margin of 21-6, Young finished too strongly for Queanbeyan Kangaroos in the Zone II game at Young on Sunday to win 20-10. With 15 minutes to go,…

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Sporting Section Golf champion in Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 8

FORMER Australian open golf champion, Eric Cremin of Sydney, will be making a person appearance at the Queanbeyan golf Club on Friday night. A number of golfing films will he screened and Gremin will give a personal clinic during the evening…

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Captain’s Flat News Rugby League The ’Flat just scraped home

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 6

The Captain’s Flat League team just managed to continue its winning sequence with a seven points to six win over Woden Valley on Sunday…

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Rugby League United weren’t in the event Premiership winning form by the Blues

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 July 1968 · page 8

Queanbeyan Blues displayed premiership winning form when they improved out of all proportion compared to recent efforts to thrash Goulburn United 32-9 at the Seiffert Sportsground on Sunday…

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Sporting Section GOLF

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 July 1968 · page 8

The second last round of the STDGA Second Division pennants will be played at Fairbairn on…

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Rugby League Coach confident Blues will win

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 July 1968 · page 8

Coach Don Furner is confident that his team, Queanbeyan Blues, will beat the Queanbeyan Kangaroos in the Zone II game at the Seiffert Sportsground on Sunday and only on optimist would predict otherwise. Still, upsets occur and the…

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Rugby Union Whites face hard game to retain position Star players back

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 July 1968 · page 5

Queanbeyan Whites moved ahead of Lyneham on the Rugby Union ladder last…

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