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Riverina · Sport

Sport, 1939

3,974 stories in Riverina's papers · page 52 of 199

Tennis Trail-street Club Season Opened Yesterday

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 2

In ideal weather yesterday, the 1939-40 season of the Trail-street Tennis Club was officially opened by the deputy Mayor (Alderman G. M. Cox) in the…

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Greyhound Racing Wagga To-night Class Dogs Engaged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 8

The outstanding feature of the meeting to be held by the Wagga Greyhound Racing Club to-night is the good class of greyhounds which will take…

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Boxing Alabama Kid v. Smallwood Twice Declared No Contest Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 4

The American boxers, Alabama Kid (12.1) and Joe Smallwood (11.10), figured in several sensational incidents in their contest at the Carlton…

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Football Gundagai and Tumut Can Play In Group 13

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 5

Although a move was made to prevent Gundagai and Tumut from playing in the Group 13 competition this season, the two clubs were given…

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The World of Sport Cricket Gundagai Will Attempt to Lift Cooper Cup

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 5

A team from Gundagai will attempt, to lift the Cooper Cup from Back Station Creek next Sunday. The Gundaagi team will be:—B. Stribley,…

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Will be Good! Athletic Sports on Thursday, April 13. Arrangements Well in Hand

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 2

The usual weekly meeting of the Hillston Athletic Club was held at the Roxy Theatre on Sunday morning last, when there were present Messrs…

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Bowls

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 3

The pairs and singles in the association championship finals are being played on Sunday afternoon, at Junee…

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Racing Topics A.J.C. Warwick Farm Races

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

TWO very important races will be decided to-morrow at Warwick Farm, the Liverpool Handicap and the Warwick Farm Cup…

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Golf

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

A committee meeting of the Tumut Golf Club was held on Monday night last and Easter Sunday was definitely decided upon for opening…

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Football

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 3
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser

Writing in a city paper, Paddy Maher referred to Ray Mangan, the Cootamundra footballer now playing with south Sydney, as "a successor to…

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Bowls in Australia

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 3

Although the game of bowls dates back to 1299 in England and Scotland, there is no evidence that it was played in Australia until the middle of last…

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Bowls Junee Club

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 8

Junee club games played recently resulted: Gannell, Briffa. Worthington d. Pickard, Clark (Sydney), Miller 24-14; Weaver, Laurantas d. Weir…

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Greyhound Racing

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 3

The Cootamundra dog, King Cash, on Wednesday Mast, won his second £50 handicap at Brisbane (Qld.), King Cash won both his heat and the final…

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Football Rugby League Dubbo League Lease of Showground and Sunday Play Dubbo

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 5

[?]ovided the Dubbo Rugby League enters into a legal agreement not to break the law, the Dubbo P.A. and H. Society has decided to lease the…

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Rugby League Short Passes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

PLAYERS WHO had a rather torrid time on the West Wyalong ground last season will be pleased to hear that the West Wyalong Club…

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This Racing Game

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 5

What an uncertain game is racing! No greater proof of that statement can be offered than the defeat of AJax last week. Incidentally. it is a…

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Four Days' Tennis

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

Commencing next Friday, the Narandera Tennis Club will conduct its annual four days' tennis tournament, for which record entries ere…

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M'mahon's Bridge to Be Closed for Regatta

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

Members of the public who are in the habit of using McMahon's Bridge across the main canal will have to make a slight…

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