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Sport, 1937

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Tumut Turf Club Boxing Day Meeting Profit of £334/4/9 REALISED

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 6

A profit of £334/4/9 was realised by the Tumut Turf Club from its recent Boxing Day meeting. Half of the profits will be given to the Tumut…

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Greyhound Racing Queanbeyan Fiasco Bookmakers' Action Viewed with Concern Queanbeyan

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 6

A meeting of the committee of the Queanbeyan Greyhound Coursing Club, after discussing the fiasco at Saturday night's meeting when the crowd…

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Huge Crowd New Attendance Record 87,798 People Watch Cricket Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 2

There was another world record crowd for the Test match to-day when 87,798 persons passed through the turnstiles, paying £7405 for…

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Goulburn Races Meeting on January 22 and 23

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

The Goulburn Raping Club will hold a two-day race meeting on Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23. The programme is very attractive,…

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Greyhound Racing Latest "War" Development Government Will Not Intervene SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

While the Chief Secretary (Mr. F. A. Chaffey) states that he has no power to intervene in the dispute which threatens to ruin dog racing in…

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Cricket Riverina Council Inter-zone Competition Second Round, January 17

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

The second round of the inter-zone competition being conducted by the Riverina CricketCouncil will be played on Sunday, January 17, when the…

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Sydney Sporting Notes Randwick Racing Reviewed Falstaff and Auto Buz A Model of Consistency

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

The merit of King's Head as a Sprinter was further emphasised by Pal staff on the final day of Tattersall's meeting. In the Plying Welter,…

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Bowls

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 5

Now that Xmas and New Year holidays are over, bowler are settling down in real earnest, and the air is almost electric with challenges…

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Bowls Bolton Park Club

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 8

Rink competition matches were played yesterday at Bolton Park bowling green, the play resulting: Edwards, Tanner, Jamieson, Lampe, 32. d. Laity…

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Greyhound Racing Control Trotting Club Decisions More Races And' More Prize Money Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 8

Another step was taken by the New South Wales Trotting Club in it fight with the Greyhound , Racing Control Council to-day when it increased' the…

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Coursing Club Electric Motor To Be Installed

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 5

At the meeting of the committee of the Gundagai Coursing Club held last evening, it was decided to go ahead with several improvements to…

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Cricket Third Test Match

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 8

England all out for 323 (Leyland not out 111).: Great news for all Australians, as it meant that they had won the third and most vital Test—vital to…

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Cricket Wednesday' Competition Australian v COPLANDS

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 8

Australian met Coplands at Bolton Park yesterday in the match deferred from the opening round of he Maples Shield competition, and at the end of…

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Will Local Swimming Club Be Forced to Abandon? No Response From Public

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 2

Owing to the legarthic attitude of the Gundagai public, the Gundagai Swimming Club will be forced to abandon its scheduled activities for…

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Tumut Turf Club Boxing Day Meeting Profit of £334/4/9 RAALISED

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 6

A profit of £384/4/9 was realised by the Tumut Turf Club from its recent Boxing Day meeting. Half of the profits will be given to the…

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New Stand at Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1

Government assistance ,in the construction of a new stand at the Sydney Cricket Ground Is likely. It Is proposed to build it at' the back of…

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Greyhound Racing at Wagga To-nights MEETINa Another Nine-race Programme

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 8

The Wagga Greyhound Racing Club will conduct their usual weekly meeting at the cricket ground to-night when another nine-race programme…

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Lord Somers Broadcasts Cricket As Bond Between Countries Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 3

The president of the Marylebone Cricket Club, and former Governor of Victoria (Lord Homers), in a broadcast, through national networks to-night,…

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Our Racing Letter Randwick Mishap Was A Blessing In Disguise For The Jamieson Stable Bailey Payten's Pair of Smart Two Year Olds

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 6

Latharna's defeat of Loud Applause in the Warwick Farm January Handicap on Saturday suggests that if Jack Jamieson had prepared this…

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Swimming

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

The weekly point scores which were interrupted by the holidays, will be held to-night and succeeding Fridays. To-night's events will…

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