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Sport, 1914

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Milbrulong. Football Club Re-formed

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 2

A meeting of the Milbrulong Football club was held in the Boundary Inn Hotel on Saturday night. There was a good attendance of players and…

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Cricket. Yerong Creek v. Combined Team

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 3

The last match of The Rock cricket competition was played on Saturday, when Yerong Creek met a combined team from the other clubs. The…

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Athletic Festival at the Rock. Successful Sports and Concert

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 2

A [?]cesful sports meeting and concert in connection with The Rock Football Club on lit inst. The committee were fortunate in having…

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Golf

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 2

The season is coming around again in golfing time. In anticipation of commencing the new season, the Wagga Club held its annual meeting…

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Tennis

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 2

The Wagga Tennis Club is arranging for the opening of the season to take place on Saturday, 18th inst. At the annual meeting on Tuesday…

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Golf. Correction

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 3

In our report in yesterday's issue of the Wagga Golf Club's annual meeting, we stated that Mr. W. J. monks had been elected President, whereas…

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Boxing. Bombardier Wells. to Meet Bandsman Rice. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 3

Bombardier Wells has been matched to fight Bandsman Rice for the heavy weight championship of England, at Liverpool, on the 30th instant…

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Lawn Tennis. Cannes Tournament. Dunlop Suffers Defeat. Cannes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 3

At the Cannes lawn tennis tournament, Dunlop was beaten in the first round of the singles. In the second round, Brookes beat Gault, while in…

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Boxing

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 2

Dan Sullivan, who meets Les O'Bonnell at Melbourne on Saturday, was one of the American athletic team to the Athenian Olympic games…

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Golf Club

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 2

The local golfers opened the season on Saturday [?] last under ideal weather conditions. A number of lady and gentleman friends, the…

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Tennis Club

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 2

The annual meeting [?] Tennis Club was held [?] the Mechanics Institute on Tuesday evening, when there were about 20 players present…

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Coolamon Picnic Races

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 3

OFFICIALS, Patron, Mr. F. R. S. Falkiner, M.H.R., President, Mr. D. J. Armstrong; Vice Presidents, Messrs J. Griffiths, T. S. Cholerton, and H…

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American Football. 14 Dead; 175 Injured

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 7

The American football season, now closing, has been a record one so far as the casualty list is concerned. There is a total death toll of 14, while 175…

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A.j.g. Racing Carnival. Our Anticipations. Doncaster and Cup

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 2

Saturday next will see the autumn meeting of the Australian Jockey Club commenced at Randwick, and present indications are that the function will be a…

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Canada the Melting Pot. Avalanche of Races. Flood-tide of Immigration

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 7

An extraordinary word picture of the great task which awaits Canada in welding into one the varied elements from Europe which are now bubbling within the great melting…

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Rugby Football. Condemned by Californian University. the Game Too Rough. San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

The University of California has decided to abandon Rugby football and return to the old American inter-collegiate game. The coach of the team…

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Boxing Fiasco Carpentier Not Coming. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 5

It is definitely announced that Snowy Baker has cancelled negotiations with Carpentier. Presumably the Sydney Stadium has…

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Golf. Australia's Champion Invited to Play in England

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 5

Ivo Whitton, the open golf champion of Australia, has been invited to compete for the "Golf Illustrated"-vase at Sunningdale links on the 30th instant…

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Racing in India Australian Jockey's Story. Fremantle

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 5

Trenoweth, the Australian jocKey, who is a passenger to Sydney by the Mooltan, has been riding in India and Burmah for the past eight months…

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Boxing. Carpentier's Opponent. Match Result of a Bet. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

It has transpired that Carpentier's amateur opponent is Mr. Mitchell, who is in business at Rheims. A brother of Mr. J. W. H. T. Douglas (not Mr…

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