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Riverina · Sport

Sport, 1925

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Golf Wagga Club's Annual Tournament

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 2

The Wagga Golf Club holds its annual tournament on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week, and an attractive programme has been arranged…

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Football Australian Rules Week End Programme

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 4

At the Wagga Cricket Ground on Saturday and Sunday the Wagga Australian Rules Football Association will continue the competition matches. The…

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Tennis. Austral[?] in Ireland Dublin, July 15

The Daily Express · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 2

The Australian ladies to-day commenced a match against Ire[?]nd. Miss Boyd beat Miss W[?] 6—3 6—1 Miss Akbur[?] beat Mrs. Blair—White…

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Leeton Football Club. Presentation to Mr. Nulty

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 2

The Soldiers Memorial Hall, Leeton was the scene of a pleasing ceremony on Thursday evening last, when Mr. W. M. Nulty was the recipient of…

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Tennis Australia v Ireland Ladies' Contest at Dublin. Dublin

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 4

The Australian ladies team began a team's match to-day against Ireland. Miss Boyd (Australia) beat Miss H. Wallis, 6-3, 6-1; Miss Akhurst beat Mrs…

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Cricket Tests. M.C.C. Team Entertained (Reuter Service) LONDON, July 15

The Daily Express · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 2

F. S. Jackson, speaking at a dinner in honor of the members of the Marylebone Team, expressed it as his [?]pin on inst Austra[?]ns now were no…

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CRICKET P.S. Jackson Against Long Matches. Gilligan Declines to "Squeal." London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 4

The Hon. F.S. Jackson, test match player and for many years captain of the Yorkshire County cricket club, speaking at the dinner given by the…

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Golf Wagga Golf Tournament

The Daily Express · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 2

The Wagga Golf Tournament will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday next, and fourteen events are set down for competition, for which…

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Tennis

The Daily Express · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 2

The following will represent South Wagga in a match against. The Rock, at the Rock, on Sunday:—F. Harding, G. Harrison. G. Matthews, R…

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Swimming. to Swim Channel. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 6

Lilian Harrison, the Argentine swimmer, who twice attempted to swim the channel in 1924, entered the water at Cape Grisnez at 4.24 o'clock this…

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Football Playing the Game

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 7

We are all familiar with those "sports" who profess an intimate knowledge of every branch of sport and who will discuss, with assumed…

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Golf Wagga Tournament. Alteration of Arrangements

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 6

The Wagga Golf Club holds its annual tournament on Thursday Friday and Saturday of next week, and an attractive programme has been arranged…

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Boxing Dempsey to Fight Wills New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 6

Jack Dempsey has been signed to fight Wills for the heavyweight crown. Mr. Rickard in making the announcement, said that the meeting with the…

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A Trip to Japan. the Ship Swimming Baths the Chinese Joss

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 8

(Dr. Francis Barclay, who contributes the following article, the sixth of a series, was for a term one of the resident medical officers at the Wagga…

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Boxing Dempsey and Will Matched. (Reuter Service) New York, July 16

The Daily Express · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 3

Dempsey has signed articles to [?]ght Wills for the heavyweight championship of the world. Tex Rickard, in making the…

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English Cricket Gentlemen v. Players. London, July 16

The Daily Express · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 2

In the match, Gentlemen v. Players, the Flayers scored 457 runs (Hobbs 140, Sutcliffe 50, Kilner 59, Holmes 92, Stevens 4 for 72). The…

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Big Tennis Anderson in America Davis Cup Prospects. New York, July 16

The Daily Express · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 1

J. O. Anderson, interviewed on his arrival here, looked unwell and said he had lost much weight owing to sickness all the way from Australia…

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Topical Turf Notes a Budget of Interesting News on Current Racing by Our Melbourne Sporting Writer

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 6

These Notes will be published each week in Tuesday's and Saturday's Issues Turf folk on this side are now concerning themselves chiefly with the big…

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Football Rugby League Junee Defeats Wagga

The Daily Express · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 3

The match at Junee yesterday for the Haig and Haig cup, Wagga v Junee, provided a disappointing exhibition of the game. Junee won by 7…

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Football

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 3

When the Gundagai football authorities aproached the Shire Council last week for a reduction of admission charges to the park, etc., Cr…

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