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Sport, 1908

11,758 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Boxing

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 10
Also in The Arrow, The Australian Star

Kellar and Raff will box the best of 20 rounds at the Gaiety Club to-night, and a good battle should result, Leichnardt, Petersham, and Annandale Star…

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Bowls

The Arrow · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 4

THE Auckland District Association team of bowlers were with us a week yesterday; they arrived on the 17th inst., were met at the steamer by the president…

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Rugby Notes

The Arrow · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

MR. J. F. McMANAMEY, having been promoted to the rank of major, has received the congratulations of his Rugby Union friends…

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Professional Rugby

The Arrow · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

The Rugby League has secured the use of Wentworth Park for the season. This means that the Glebe District Rugby F.C. will not, as had been hoped, be able…

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Golf

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 14

To-day's engagements are:- Royal Sydney G.C.: Stroke competition. Killara G.C.: Silver putter. Concord G.C.: Club medal…

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Swimming Manly Club

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

The members of the Manly Swimming Club will contest a 200 yards handicap at the Manly Municipal Baths at 10.30 o'clock tomorrow, morning. The handicaps will be…

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Swimming. Drummoyne Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 14

This club held a 66yds Club Handicap on Wednesday evening. Results:—First heat: O. Johnston, [?] 1; E. Bodds, 7s, 2. Time, 48 3-5[?] Second heat: F. Clare, 7s, 1; A. J. Norman, 11s, 2. Time, 47s…

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Swimming Redfern Club

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 15

The Redfern Swimming Club will hold their ninth annual carnival at Coogee Aquarium Barths next Wednesday evening. Included in the programme are the Inter-club handicap,…

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British Rugby Team

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 9

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday. -- The British football team to tour New Zealand leaves London on April 30…

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Football

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 10

A meeting was held on Thursday evening at the Balmain Town Hall for the purpose of form rating a Balmain club to affiliate with the New South Wales Rugby League. Mr. John Store…

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Golf Gossip

The Arrow · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 5

IT is reported from France that the A reason the prizes for mixed foursomes on the Continent are invariably wen by English couples is that this latter, with true British solidity, always refuse to first…

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Bowls Randwick Club

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 15

On Tuesday next the Randwick Bowling Club will entertain the Auckland bowling team on their green at Randwick, at 2.30 p.m. An invitation is extended to any…

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Cricket

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

On Wednesday last at the North Sydney Oval No. 2 the North Sydney Tramway Department defeated the Neutral Bay Players by three wickets and 41 runs. For the…

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Tennis Talk

The Arrow · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 6

WAY back in the early nineties Teddy Dewhurst was one of our crock players, and his defeat of Ben Creen in the Inter-State match, when the latter…

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Cricket Notes

The Arrow · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

Ward Prentice, the Western Suburbs half-back, is always worth looking at when he is on the Rugger field. And the same remark aptly applies to…

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Cricket Notes

The Arrow · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 2

THE New South Wales v. Victoria match started yesterday is the eightieth, New South Wales having won 42 and Victoria 37…

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Bowls. To-day's Matches. Pennant and "B" Competitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 14

The third round of the pennant and "B" competitions will be played to-day, as follow:- Pennant. Hunter's Hill v Balmain, at North Sydney…

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Sporting Football South Sydney District Club

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 15

A meeting of the South Sydney District Football Club (Union rules) was held at the N.S.W. Sports Club on Thursday night. Mr. B. I Swannell occupied the chair. It was…

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