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Sport, 1934

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Regatta Euchre Party and Dance

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1934 · page 3

The euchre party and dance at Pyree on regatta night was a wonderful success, the takings amounting to £20. Many visitors were in…

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Shoalhaven Rowing Club Annual Regatta and Woodchops

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1934 · page 1

The tenth animal regatta and woodchops took place on the Numba ground on New Year's Day. The weather was all that, could be desired for…

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Bega District Jockey Club. Annual Racing Carnival. Glorious Weather. Great Racing. Record Crowds. Over £600 Gate Money. Chryclare Wins the Cup From Start to Finish. Opening of New Stand

The Bega District News · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 2

For many years looked, on by racing people far and near as the Melbourne Cup meeting of the southern districts, and growing in popular favor year by…

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The Racing Game

The Bega District News · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 2

Bega has recently witnessed a wonderful racing carnival, attracting a gathering or people from a wide area, who paid over £600 in entrance…

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Cricket History

The South Coast Register · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

The origin of our great national sport of cricket can be traced back as far as the beginning of the seventeenth century when it was played…

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Horse-racing to Be Resumed at Bega. Meeting on Anniversary Day

The Bega District News · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 2

Bega District Jockey Club, meeting it the course on Tuesday, rescinded the motion previously carried not to allow any more racing until the…

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Swimming Club

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 2

. A meeting of the committee of the Shoalliaven Amateur swimming Club. was held at the Council Chambers on Thursday night there being present…

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Cricket

The Nowra Leader · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 4

The "Sunday Sun" pays tribute to M-Kinnon (brother to Archie, of this town) in writing of the match between Waverley and Western Suburbs…

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CRICKET Berry v. Pyree Berry Score Only 59 AND 45{By “Leg Theory”)

The South Coast Register · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 5

Berry and Pyree finished their match at Pyree last Saturday with a strong wind blowing across the wicket. Berry, in their first innings,…

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Bowls

The Nowra Leader · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 6

Watty Graham journeyed to Kiama on Saturday last, defeating Abbott, of Berry, in the Singles Championship in the morning, but he suffered…

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Bowls

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 3

Watty Graham journeyed to Kiama on Saturday last, defeating Abbott, of Berry, in the Singles Championship in the morning, but he suffered…

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Moruya Races. First Day’s Results

The Bega District News · Thursday 8 February 1934 · page 2

The Moruya Race Club’s annual meeting opened on Wednesdays Results:— Publicans’ Purse of £15, 6f Mrs…

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Cricket

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 1

Candelo players knocked up some good figures in a match against Pambula on the local wicket on Sunday. winning by 230 to 96 on the first…

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CRICKET Berry v. Nowra Berry Wins First Match by 88 RUNS

The South Coast Register · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 1

Berry and Nowra continued their match on the showground last Saturday, Nowra having been dismissed for 134. Berry once again had to…

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Athletic Carnival

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 2

Kindly peruse the program presented by Dry River athletic club for their big Easter Carnival on 2nd April. The star…

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Autumn Handicaps Weights for the Rich Races How Champions Are Faring

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1934 · page 1

Horses which have been regarded as "too infirm to race" at some time or other head the weights for the six most important handicaps of the…

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Pyree Football Club

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 5

The annual meeting of members of the above club was held in the Pyree Literary Institute on Thursday night last. The President (Mr. Jack Watts)…

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Bowls

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 1

Arrangements have been made to play the "B" Pennants on the 3rd and 10th March, place of play has not yet been finalised…

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Football

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 7

The South Coast teams are holding their annual meetings, Kiama and Geningong being well to the forefront. "The Leader" representative…

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Successful Tennis Player

The South Coast Register · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 2

Mrs. Fred McKenzie, of Hurstville (one Miss Mona Watson, of Berry), has been very successful recently in tennis tournaments in the…

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