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Sport, 1908

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Athletics

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 2
Also in The Daily Telegraph

South Sydney, St. George, and Botany Club's sports at Redfern Oval…

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Football. Rugby League. New Club at Redfern

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 14

The work of organisation, which the officials of the New South Wales Rugby League commenced in the Glebe Town Hall, continues to meet with success. Strong clubs have been formed at Glebe and Newtown…

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Manly Regatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 14

Manly Cove and North Harbour will be a scene of much animation this afternoon, when the annual regatta in connection with the village will be held. Good entries have been received, and given fine…

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Leichhardt Regatta

Evening News · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 7

At the annual regatta of the Leichhart Club, to be held on Iron Cove on February S. the following open races will be decided:—Maiden Eights, for the Metropolitan Cup, presented by…

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Swimming

The Arrow · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 11

RANDWICK AND COOGEE CLUB will provide the big show to-day, and a capital one it promises to be. "There are novelties gatore and good…

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Boxing

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 3
Also in The Arrow, Evening News

At the Gaiety Athletic Hall to-night Tom Jones and Jack Ledbury will contest the best of 20 rounds contest. The two lads are well matched physically, and as they have been…

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Bowls

The Arrow · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 4

The new method of playing the Pennant matches shows no mercy-the weakest side on any particular day, through ill-luck or otherwise. Is snuffed out completely, hence…

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Rugby Notes. Rugby Union Notes

The Arrow · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 3

THE New South Wales Rugby Union has started to fight the professional movement with the gloves off. It has taken a leaf out of the book of…

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Swimming Strokes

The St George Call · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 7

The local swimmers had something of a tough problem last Saturday at Brighton Baths, to wit a 300 yds. race. The distance was too much for the tired…

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Rugby Football League Meeting at Redfern South Sydney Club Formed

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

The New South Wales Rugby Football League held a public meeting in the Redfern Town Hall last night, with a view to forming a South Sydney District Rugby…

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Football

Evening News · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 7

At the Redfern Town Hall on Friday night, a meeting was held to form a South Sydney Club to play in the competition of the New South ; Wales Rugby League…

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Golf Gossip

The Arrow · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

GOLFER (grandlloquently): "After all, golf is the game that all men settle down to in the end; it is the ultimate pleasure of the athlete; it is the last-…

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Tennis Talk

The Arrow · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 6

SWANSTON, formerly of Sydney, won the Singles Championship of Wellington (N.Z.) rather easily, not losing a set in the last two rounds…

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Swimming. Randwick and Coogee Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 14

This afternoon, at Coogee Aquarium, the above club will hold its annual carnival The 100yds championship of the Eastern districts will be decided, and the following will do battle:—W. Hobson (R. and C.), R…

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Sporting CRICKET

Nepean Times · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 6

A team from Penrith last Saturday journeyed to Mulgoa to try conclusions with a team picked from that part of the district. It was thought with the team Penrith took…

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Cricket Notes

The Arrow · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

AUSTRALIA han won two of the three first Test matches, so that the chances are that England will not win the rubber. The latest of the three matches did not…

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Aquatics. Anniversary Regatta. Welcome to Visitors the West

Evening News · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

Entries for the old-established Anniversary Regatta, which will be held again on Monday, January 27, are to close this evening at 129 Pitt-street, Sydney. The programme was…

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