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Riverina · Sport

Sport, 1908

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Sundry Sports. Football. Australian

The Worker · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 23

The postponed fixture between Balmain and North Shore was the only game in the Sydney League competition, on Saturday, and Balmain won by 94 points to…

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Boxing Championship. "Terrible Tiny" Wants to Fight Burns

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 2

"Terrible Tiny." the Wallsend miner, who has expressed a desire to try conclusions with Tommy Burns, has arrived in Sydney, and is seeking a…

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Sporting Notes. Races to Come

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 3

Narandera Race Club (Show Meeting), August 7. St. Lconard has changed hands. The St. Swithin gelding will next race as…

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Inter—empire Football. Matches for Australia. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 2

The Rugby Union has arranged 28 fixtures for the Australian footballers, commencing with a match against Devon on September 26th…

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Inconsistent Performances in Racing. to Be Investigated by the V.R.C. MELBOURNE

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 3

The V.R.C. Committee has called on central bookmakers to produce their books in connection with the running of another Grand National candidate…

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Football

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 2

The British Rugby team defeated a Hawkes Bay fifteen at Napier?(N.Z.) on Wednesday by 25 points to 3. The New South Wales team returned…

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Tennis Ball

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 6

What is regarded as the social event of the year in Coolamon —the Tennis Ball—eventuated in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Tuesday…

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Tennis Club Dance

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 3

The first of this season's Tennis Club's dances took place on Friday evening last in Leek's Commercial Hall. The event had been looked…

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Football. Ramblers v. ROVERS

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 2

The much:talked:of match locally Tumut Ramblers v. Tumut Rovers, eventuated on Wednesday last. From the kick off, the vigorous and lusty…

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Sporting. FOOTBALL. (Australian Rules.)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 5

Cottee defeated Coolamon on Saturday by 9 points to nil. The Wagga football club defeated the Sydney team on…

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Swimming

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 3

In preparation for another attempt to swim the Channel, Montague Holbein swam 50 miles down the lower portion of the Thames, covering the distance in 13 hours 47 minutes…

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Rugby

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 4
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser

The Wagga Club journey to Coolamon to-day to play a Norton Cup fixture. Several players are not available, Sid Beat, P. Naeh, H. Archer, D. Eadio, J…

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Golf

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald, Wagga Wagga Express

To-day a stroke competition will take on the local links over 18 holes. Play place on the local links over 18 holes. Play is to commence at 2 o'clock…

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Football

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 3

Adelong first-graders defeated tumut on Wednesday by 3 points to ml. In the second grade competition at Tumut on Wednesday, the Ramblers…

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Sporting Notes. Races to Come

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 8

Narandera Race Club (Show Meeting), August 7. C. Pratt won the Hungarian Derby last month on a horse named…

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Tennis. the Wimbledon Championships. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 2

M. J. G. Ritchie and A. T. Wilding have won the gentlemen's double tennis championship, beating A. W. Gore and H. Roper Barrett, 6-4, 6-2, 4-6,…

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Football. Association. Oldtown v. the Lake

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 8

The team to represent Oldtown in their match against Lake Albert this afternoon in the second round of the minor competition, to be played at…

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