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Sport, 1918

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Meeting at Menangle Splendid Attendance, Large Fields and Good Racing

Arrow · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 1

Three special trains wer put on to cope with the crowd that attended the Menangle meeting on Wednesday, and all were well patronised. Although fields were large the betting ring was…

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A Racing Tragedy, a Horse-trainer Dashed Against a Tree

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 4

At Christmas Creek (Q.) races on Wednesday week, Thomas Brown, aged thirty-five years, during an interval between the races was exercising a horse on the…

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Lawn Tennis Country Week: Old Batsmen Who Wield the Racket

Arrow · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 8

Country Week tournament, which opens tomorrow at the N.S.W. Association Double Bay courts, promises to be a very successful one. There are numerous entries, and the open events' should produce some first-class tennis. Every ; effort has been made on the part of the committtee in charge of the arrangements to make the daily programme as varied and interesting as possible. The courts will be in good order…

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Current Sport Tattersall's Races Colugo Wins the Carrington Stakes

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 4

Randwick (Sydney) enclosures were thronged by a holiday crowd on Saturday afternoon last when Tattersall's Christan meeting commenced. The racing…

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Cricket: the Grades and Holiday Play Will Petersham Go Down to Glebe?

Arrow · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 2

We have had a good deal of cricket since the Arrow appeared last week. All the grade matches Were played at the week-and, and on New Year's Day the Association brought off…

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W.F. Corbett's Page of Breezy Boxing Comment Stone and Clabby Lloyd and George Cook Goldfrey and lackburn

Arrow · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 6

Benny Palmer and Matt Murphy will figure in the Stadium square to-morrow night as opponents in a ten rounds clash, for clash it will be if each fights as he usually does…

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International Cricket by Not Out, in the Referee After the War: Australia' Military Team

Arrow · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 3

It is known. that though it is the turn of South Africa to receive a visit from Australia, and after that of Australia to entertain an English eleven, the cricker authorities in…

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Athletics the Highland Gathering: Echoes of the Games

Arrow · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 8

The SOth annual games of the Highland Society of N.S.W., at the Show Ground, on Tuesday last were favored with fine and cool weather, and may be written down as a suc­cess. Compared with some of the old-time gatherings the 50th of the series was a quiet function, and a few more spectacular items would probably have been welcomed by the crowd but in the circumstances, and all things considered, perhaps the programme was big enough…

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Our Newcastle Letter. Wallsend Races — a Popular Secretary — Winning Jockeys — Boolaroo Racing Club — a Reliability Test — Swimming and Boxing. Newcastle Races

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 5

The Newcastle Jockey Club's race meeting was the principal holiday attraction in the Newcastle district on Tuesday, and is the weather was delightfully cool,…

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Anniversary Regatta

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 8

Lovers of aquatics will be plased to hear that this big regatta will be held as usual on Anniversary Day, January 26th next. At the meeting called to…

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Swimming

Evening News · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 5
Also in Sydney Sportsman, Sydney Sportsman, The Sydney Morning Herald

The last Sydney Ama[?]…

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Boxing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 15
Also in Sydney Sportsman, Evening News

To-night's mixed programme at the Stadium will include 10 rounds between Matt Murphy and Benny Palmer, and a number of tournament bouts. A number of new vaudeville turns will also be introduced…

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Bowls

The St George Call · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

St. George Club carried out a number of successful functions during the festive season. On Boxing Day a rink tournament was…

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Wallsend and Plattsburg Regatta

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 8

Our Northern neighbours will hod a regatta at Spear's Point on Anniversary Day. the sailing races on the programme being all boats 24 ft and under, and all…

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