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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1973

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Bowls Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 10 December 1973 · page 15

Several club championship were finalised at the weekend, arid matches resulted as follow:…

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Bowls Newcastle Beats Fdba

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 10 December 1973 · page 15

The long awaited clash between the Newcastle Bowling Association and clash between the Newcastle Bowling and the Federal Districts resulted in a convincing win for the visitors by 556 shots 467…

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Cricket Dropped Catches Prove Costly for Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 10 December 1973 · page 16

Two vital dropped catches cost Queanbeyan first grade cricket team 81 runs, certain victory and valuable competition points against Woden at the Park Oval on Saturday…

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Swimming club Numbers Increase

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 December 1973 · page 23

Seven new swimming members has brought the strength of the Queanbeyan Leagues’…

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Presentation Night Rugby Club Basketball

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 December 1973 · page 24

Queanbeyan Rugby Club basketballers will wind up another successful competition…

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Cricket Week

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 December 1973 · page 23

Queanbeyan boys are eligible to take part in the Second A.C.T. Cricket Week, to be field at…

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Racing Roundup With Frank Nash

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 December 1973 · page 22

Queanbeyan and District Harness Racing Club at its last meeting almost achieved a feat that I doubt it has ever done before — run a meeting without any…

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American act prepares for match races Speedway

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 December 1973 · page 23

[?] american speed-way ace, Hash Brown, will make a special trip to Queanbeyan tomorrow to set up his car for the International match race series at Tralee Speedway on Friday night…

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Will Lawn Bowls Become School Sport of Future? Also squash, rock climbs

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 December 1973 · page 24

“The time is drawing near when the less recognised school sports should become part of the sporting curricula. “Golf, bush walking, squash, ten pin bowling canoeing,…

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Live Cover Top Tennis

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 December 1973 · page 19

Live coverage of the Bonne Dell tennis series, regarded as the women’s equivalent of the Davis Cup, will be televised on the ABC’s national…

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Junior cricket Young teams impressive

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 December 1973 · page 17

Queanbeyan junior cricketers ended the first half of the season with their three youngest…

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Cricket Win Over Souths a “Must”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 December 1973 · page 20

Following last Saturday's narrow loss to Woden. Queanbeyan first grade cricket team drops to sixth place and must win tomorrow's all day clash with South Woden…

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Rugby League “We Don’t Want Poaching by Group 8 TEAMS”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 December 1973 · page 20

Canberra and District Minor Rugby League has decided in principle to conduct an Under 17 competition next year. But it warns that it does not want…

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Bowls Notes

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 17 December 1973 · page 14

Queanbeyan lost its last two remaining players in the FDBA singles play on Saturday…

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Women’s Bowls

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 17 December 1973 · page 14

The final of the club triples championship was played on Sunday. The winners, R…

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Boxing Day race entries

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 17 December 1973 · page 14

Queanbeyan Racing Club has received 75 nominations for its meeting on Boxing Day…

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CRICKET Late declaration First Grade Fizzled Out

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 17 December 1973 · page 16

A much delayed declaration saw the first grade game between South Woden and Queanbeyan fizzle out to a tame draw on Saturday. On the big and…

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Racing Roundup With Frank Nash

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 December 1973 · page 19

Goulburn Show Coursing Club is celebrating the re-opening of its track after returfing and other improvements with two big weekends of racing. Lass Saturday the club…

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Cricket-Racing-Tennis Major Holiday Sport Live on Abc Television

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 December 1973 · page 12

The ABC will televise live major national and international sporting events over the Christmas…

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Rugby League $10,000 for Inter-city Rugby League

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 December 1973 · page 12

The first inter-city Rugby League matches between Queanbeyan, Canberra and Wagga teams will be known as the Marlboro $10,000 Challenge Series…

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