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Sport, 1928

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Golf Notes

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 6

Reports from the Henty Club augur well for the coming season and no doubt the fact that the Southern Districts Championships are to be played…

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Rosehill Races

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 3

Punter started the day disastrous [?] at Rosehill on Saturday. In the first division of the Railway Handicap the most favored runners were…

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Races Abandoned

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 4

The St. Patrick Day Race Club's meeting, which wan to have been held yesterday and to-day, has been abandoned…

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Sporting Cricket

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 3

The Wallendbeen C.C. is endeavoring to arrange a match with Dudauman for next Saturday, but only six players had been secured up to…

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Albury Golf Club Albuby Club's Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Albury Golf Club was held in the Show Society's rooms on Monday night. The president, Mr. James Stephen,…

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Boxing Impressions of Sydney O'donnell in Form

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 3

While in Sydney during last week end I visited Sammy Chapman's gymnasium in Oxford street, Sydney and there saw O'Donnell at work in…

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CRICKET Australia v. N.Z. Drawn Game a Auckland

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 1

Play was interrupted by rain, and the match was declared drawn…

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Golf

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 4

Golfers are looking forward to resuming their Saturday afternoon competitions. J. Warne, of the Commercial Bank,…

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Football

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 11
Also in Cootamundra Herald, The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate, Daily Advertiser

The committee of the Rugby League Football Club met last night, there being a good attendance Merriwagga Club wrote suggesting…

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Cricket

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The match between Coolac and Gundagai, which was commenced in Anzac Park, last Sunday, will be finished next Sunday. On the…

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Boxing Championship to Tunney New York, March 27

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 6

The State Athletic Commission will place Tunney on the ineligible list unless he accepts by Tuesday next one or all "three top challengers" in the…

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Bowls Rain Stops Play

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 2

The rainy weather this week has interfered with all play on the Wagga Club's greens. The Narandera team which was to have visited Wagga yesterday afternoon…

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Boxing Two Boxers Suspended London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 6

The council of the British Boxing Board has suspended Jack Hood, the welterweight champion of Britain, and Joe Bloomfield, for two months as…

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Golf Wagga Club Committee Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 2

The newly elected committee of the Wagga Golf Club held their first meeting at the Sportsman's Club Hotel on Tuesday night. The President, Mr. G. M. Cox,…

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Jugiong Races Rider Disqualified

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 4

The Jugiong Sports Club held their annual race meeting on Saturday last, in ideal weather. There was a fair attendance of interested…

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Surf Fatality Father Drowned Swimming to Daughter's Rescue SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 1

Frederick Keary was drowned at Ocean Beach, woy Woy, yesterday, while attempting to save his daughter, who was Carried out in the…

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