Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Sport, all years

Sydney · Sport

Sport, 1917

6,790 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Sports and Games. Bowls. Honor Column

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 3

Eades, Sherlock, Sattler, Pearson ... 41-17 Pennant matches will be resumed to-day, Parramatta meets Victoria Park at home Ryde meets Petersham at home…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Pony Racing Gossip Successful Meeting at Ascot Entertainments Tax Well Handled With Good Results Victoria Park Races

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

will be one of the principal metropolitan sporting attractions this afternoon, where a start will be made at 2 p.m. Special trams will convey patrons to and from the gates of the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Bowls Gossip Pennant Play Resumed To-Day

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 5

By WF Corbett Pennant and K play will be resumed to-day. Mr. Shadforth, secretary of the Association, supplies the official draw as follows. All matches, unless where otherwise slated, will be…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Golf Notes New Year's Holiday Play and Players

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 7

Eric Apperly put up some good coif during the holidays, for he beat C. Campbell, the Leura professional, on his own links by 2 up, and also won the bogey competition with 36 one…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

W. F. Corbett's Boxing Budget Kay and Uren Again for Middleweight Title

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

Who will win to-night. Kay or Uren? The com[?]st will be the first for Referee Championship belt and it looks like pro vine weathy of that fact…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

The Cyclist Holiday and Other Racing on Track and Road

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 7

Matters cycling are exceptionally quiet. Now that the holidays are over, they should liven up, however. For about the first year on record, there…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Cricket and Cricketers Not Out on Grade Matches This Afternoon

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 2

The Sydney grade competitions will be resumed in Sydney to-day, with cricketers keen on getting into the fray again, the holiday spell having been put in, as a rule, away from bat…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Lawn Tennis Country Week Carnival: Notes and News (Continued From Page 8.)

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 5

Any member of the Naval and Military forces in uniform will be admitted tree to the Double Bay courts during the Country Week Carnival. Visitors as well as players at the week's…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Cricket and the Theatre Men Who Have Played Parts on Both Stages

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 3

In former days attractions in Melbourne cricket were matches in which members of the theatrical profession frequently took part. Many of the actors who came out from the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Athletics Sport and Personal Gossip of the New Year

Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 8

The forty-ninth annual Highland Gathering at the Agricultural Ground, Moore Park, last Monday, must be written down as a very pronounced success, when one takes into…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Coursing

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 13

The committee of the N.S.W. National Coursing Association will meet to-morrow evening at Bateman's Hotel, George-street, City. The chief business is in connection with the coming season's programme, the…

Continued on Trove, page 13 →

Associated Racing Clubs

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 11

The inquiry into the running of the mare Melusina in the Fourteen-two Handicap at Ascot on Wednesday was concluded at the A.R.C. office on Friday, when the stewards…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Racing at Rosebery

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 11

On Wednesday next there will be a meeting at Rosebery, and, with a fair proportion of the best-known unregistered performers engaged, the sport should be first-class. The opening…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Cricket Oberg's Big Hitting

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 7

The sixth round of the first grade competition was commenced yesterday in ideal cricket weather. There was nothing of very great interest in the games, excepting Oberg's…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Cricket Moderate Batting on Good Wickets

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 12

The games under the control of the N.S. Wales Cricket Association were resumed yesterday. The scoring generally was very mederate. However, a few good finishes are…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Victoria Park Races Bookmakers Have a Disastrous Day Wherry Wins the Handicap

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 11

There was another large attendance at yesterday's meeting of the Victoria Park Racing Club, when the seven-event programme was productive of nine races owing to the first three…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Swimming

Evening News · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 2

The Spouth Sydney [?] will decide a 100 yards [?] race at the Domain [?] on Wednesday night. The handicaps are:—J. [?] O. Williams lane…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Boxing

Evening News · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 2

There was a mergin of points to Tommy Uren's favor at the end of his twenty rounds contest with Fred Kay at the Rushouter's Bay Stadium on Saturday night. The refered…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Racing

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 15

C. Barden the 17-year-old son of J. Barden, one of Australia's forefront jockeys in his day, has been riding only a little over 2½ years, and steered his first winner in November, 1914…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

Boxing. Uren Beats Kay

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 3

Tommy Uren on Saturday night wrested the middle weight title from Fred Kay in a 20-rounds contest, at the Stadium, that carried with It the championship licit presented by Mr. H. D. M'latosh. Uren, who was nearly…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →