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Riverina · Sport

Sport, 1945

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Country Swimming Titles

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 3

Counts swimming titles will be held at Armidale on February 23 and 24. The N.S.W.A.S.A. secretary, B. R. Galland, received…

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Swimming Carnival at Wagga To-day

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 4

All arrangements have been completed for the combined services and civilians' beach carnival which will be held at the Wagga bathing beach…

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Seeking Easier Races

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY Sat.: Winsome Lad and War Trophy, both of whom have failed in Sydney recently, have left H[?]arwon's stables at…

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Tennis Manly Championship Pail Meets Barnes

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 4

Dinny Pails reached the semifinals of the Manly seaside open singles championship on Saturday when he beat Bob M'Carthy 6—0,…

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Boxing Chapman Retains Title

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE. Mon.: Tommy Chapman (8.118) retained his Australian featherweight championship at Newcastle Stadium…

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Five Killed Played Football with Bomb

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 3

CAIRNS, Mon.: Five persons wore killed at Yarrabah Mission on Saturday when a bomb with which they were playing football…

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Swimming Carnival at Wagga Yesterday Large Crowd Views Interesting Programme

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 2

New Year's Day is always marked by a, monster carnival—race day, sports day or some other function of an entertaining…

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Bowls Wagga Club Successful Opening of Season Many Visitors Present

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 4

The Wagga Bowling Club held its official opening of the season yesterday afternoon when there was a very large crowd present, including…

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Bowls Junee Club

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 3

New Year's Day on the Junee bowling green saw 24 bowlers in six rinks send down two bowls each over three games of 14 ends…

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Swimming Classes 10,000 Children Attending

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY. Tues.: More than 10,000 children attended 31 swimming classes in the country and 16 in the city when they opened to-day under the…

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Wagga Races Programme for Anniversary Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 4

After a lapse of nearly five months the Murrumbidgee Turf Club will re-sume racing at Wagga on Wednesday. January 24 with the Anniversary…

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Greyhound Racing at Cowra Nominations Close To-morrow

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 4

The Cowra and District Greyhound Racing Association will hold its next greyhound race meeting at Cowra on Saturday next,…

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Flemington New Year's Day Meeting Review of the Racing Great Britain's Bagot

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 4

There was a very large crowd at Flemington to begin 1945. The day was cloudy and overcast, and a few light showers fell during the…

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Bowls Wagga Club

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

Matches played at the Wagga Club yesterday resulted:— Lugsdin, Roff, Dalgleish 32 defeated Nixon, Snodgrass,…

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Bowls Sunday 24th DECEMBER

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 5

Rinks Championship Match 1st Round— Leary, V. Carberry, F. W. Davey, and Coleman met Last, M. Smith,…

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Griffith Racing on

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

The Griffith Club will conduct a greyhound racing meeting on Saturday for which nominations will close at 10 o'clock tomorrow…

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Boxing Day Gymkhana a Big Day for the Comforts Fund

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 3

Despite a considerable amount of misgiving owing to the bad season the district is passing through and the big prize money…

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Rosebery Races to Be Held at Rosehill

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.: Approval has been granted by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) for the holding of a meeting of the Rosebery…

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The World of Sport Racing Three Disqualifications at Tumut Prominent Sportsmen Out For Two Years

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 5

The protest lodged by the connections of Twofold against Salesman being declared the winner of the High weight Handicap, at Tumut on…

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Bowls

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

The progressive threes' competition on Boxing Day resulted in a win for Wood's team after a play-off with Pearson's team…

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