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Sport, 1935

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School Children's Swimming Classes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

The holiday swimming classes for school children are going very well. The boy's class baa now an enrolment of 91, which is 11 over the usual quota…

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Big Cricket

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

Cricket enthusiasts should be in for a treat on Wednesday 9th January at kinder Coolamon when a touring team representation the…

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Cricket Tumut District Cricket Assn Competition Resumes on

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 5

After a lapse of a fortnight compotition [?] on Sunday, when the following middies lake place:-- "A " Divisien --Goeup v. Batlow…

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Week-end Cricket Teams

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

Hotel Leeton Richards team to play M.U. on Hockey ground on Sunday:—J. Cameron, C. Hatten fels, L. Hustle, R. Schoer, A. Rose…

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Cricket Coolamon [?] v. WAGGA

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 4

On Sunday [?] 23rd, a team [?] the [?] Sound [?] Club [?] Wagga in quest of the Pastoral Challenge Cup,…

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Swimming New Backstroke Record Established by Clarke Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

Swimming in a heat of the New South Wales backtstroke championship at the Domain Baths to-night, Reg Clarke broke the Australian record by…

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Moorefield Races. To-morrow (Saturday.) Selection

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

There and Four Year Old handicap; First Division King’s Head, Persia, Gay Hawk, Second Division: Honey, Evident, Cantaloupe…

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Headed the Field 'Plane Races Horse Down the Straight Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 4

The imperial Airways 'plane Arethusa, piloted by Captain Taylor and First-Officer Garside, arrived at Darwin at 4.45 p.m. yesterday from…

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Athletics Tolan to Attack Donaldson's Record

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 1

Arrangements have been completed for Eddie Tolan, the American negro sprinter, to attack Jack Donaldson 's Victorian 100 yards professional…

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Tumut Races Boxing Day Profit Tumut

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

The balance sheet of the Tumut Turf Club's Boxing Day race meeting disclosed a profit of £201 on the fixture. The president (Mr. John…

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Golf In America

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 14

Conservatively estimated there are in the United States more than 200 hotels which own and operate their own golf courses, some of them two…

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Swimming Champions From the East

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

Two of Japan's champions, Kiyokawa and Sakagami, will begin the big events of the Australian international series in Sydney Domain baths…

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Golf English Women Visitors

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

Definite advice has been received that the team of English woman golfers will arrive in Australia in August. Miss Rene Austin, secretary of the…

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Golf Handicaps New System in Victoria

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 12

The Victorian Golf Association has introduced the standard scratch score system of handicapping commencing from the new year, on similar lines to…

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Tumbarumba Races Cup Meeting Programme

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

An attractive programme has been issued by the Tumbarumba Turf Club for its annual cup race meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, January 30…

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Rain in Melbourne Tennis Abandoned Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 4

Heavy rain fell in Melbourne this morning, and the Australian tennis championships were abandoned for the day…

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£2000 for Tennis Tour Woman Declines Offer London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 4

Mrs. Whittingstall cabled the New York tennis promoter, Bill Borden, refusing £2000 for a three months' tour. "I shouldn't dream of…

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Tennis Professional Offer to Helen Jacobs New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

Bill O'Brien, the sporting promoter, has cabled an offer to Miss Helen Jacobs, the tennis player, to turn professional. "I know she will accept…

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Moorefield Races Postponed on Account of Rain Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 15

Owing to heavy rain the race meeting set down for Moorefield to-day had to be postponed and the fixture will be held on Thursday next…

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CORRESPONDENCE (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents.) Ladies' Cricket Team (To Editor "The Daily Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 8

Sir,—The selectors of the ladies' cricket team to play at Junee on January 15 have not selected Miss Tessie Clare of Wagga, I understand…

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