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Sport, 1921

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To-day's Sporting the Turf Anniversary Racing Backers Are Cautious

Evening News · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 2

The virtual stagnation of the betting market on the Challenge Stakes and Anniversary Handicap in largely due to the uncertainly about the field. The…

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Lawn Tennis. Promising Players Show Improved Form in Country Carnival

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 7

The Country Carnival, after two days' postponements due to rain, was begun last Friday on the Double Bay Courts. It was not to be expected, in the…

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Form at Golf How It Is Affected by Too Much Play

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 2

The time is approaching when the professional golfer looks forward to a well-earned rest. In my own case I shall be glad of it. for although I…

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Victorian Cricket Hotchin, Down and Iron-monger Do Well

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 5

Day after day the sun has smitten Melbourne with scorching heat. Per-spiring thousands faced the inconveni-ence cheerfully in the recent big games,…

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Tennis Champions. Sydney Invaded. Grip That Slipped. Brookes and the Cup

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 10

The Makura arrived in Sydney yesterday, bringing, among other passengers, the members of the American and Australasian Davis Cup teams…

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Boxing in Public Schools An Extending Movement Girls Anxious to Lean Why Should They Not?

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 10

The boys of the public schools are been to learn boxing, and some of the tirls, too, are anxious to take advantage of the experimental classes started…

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Albion Park Meeting Imported Onward Way Opens His Winning Account Small Fields and Uninteresting Racing

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 6

With small fields competing, there was a falling off in the attendance at Albion Park on Saturday. Starters in the six events totalled only thirty. The racing…

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Autumn Races. Doncaster and Sydney Cup. Doncaster Handicap, One Mile. Run March 26

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 3

Berrengarria, Sandbee, Ready Aye Ready. Malurys, Pteroptod, Brian, Yarraidool, Fenelia, Wish Wynne, Earl Liddell, Tressady Queen. Irish Maid,…

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Science Congress. Future of White Races. Settlement and Food. Agriculture of the Ancients

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The fifteenth Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science was continued to-day at the Melbourne University, when a beginning…

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GOLF J. H. Kirkwood Wanted for America Howard Wins Manly Summer Cup Vardon and Ray's impressions

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 14

I paid a visit to the Concord Club on Saturday to see the new club house, and was quite fascinated with it. The build-ings that have been erected in so short…

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SWIMMING. Beaurepaire Will Swim in New South Wales Championships: Cotton's Judgment: Longworth Wins : Beaurepaire's 150 in Record Time: Chances of Kealoha and Longer on

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 9

Bad news was that received by the Amateur Swimming Association last week, staling that Duke Kahanamoku was not on board the Makura bound for…

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Splashes of Spray State Eighteen-footers' Championship a Fiasco : Shicks O'Clock Closing Settles Sydney's Chance : Results of Other Races

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 7

Drummoyne Park Club.—First heat: Minoru 1, Dearing 2. Peggy 3. Second heat: Rose 1. Intrepid 2. Stella 3. Final Minoru 1. Dearing 2. Stella 3…

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Athletics Big Meetings Ahead Australian Horse Carnival: Police and Firemen's Sports: State Championships, Etc

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 9

There are many important fixtures in the near future for members of the A.A.A. Firstly will come East Sydney A.A.C. activities. The club will conduct its…

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Professional Athletics

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 9

(The governing body in N.S.W. is the N.S.W. Athletic league—Mr. R. E. Oaten, secretary, Melba Chambers, 65 Market-street. Sydney.) PROFESSIONAL ATHLETIC FIXTURES…

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Victorian General Sport Athletics

Referee · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 5

Amateur athletics were never in such a flourishing condition in Victoria as they have been during the past 12 months, and the Amateur Athletic Association has…

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Athletics. South Sydney A.a.c

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 10

The annual general meeting of members of the South Sydney Club has been fixed for Monday, 24th inst., at the Sports Club, Hunt-street. A great…

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Western District Racing. Too Many Fixtures

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 8

BATHURST, Wednesday.--With regard to the slump in racing throughout the west, the Orange Club, after an inquiry, has decided to carry on and hold its Cup meeting in March…

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Boxing. Keller to Meet Dempsey. New York. January 11

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 5

It is announced from Portland, Oregon, that Terry Keller, the Portland heavyweight, will meet Dempsey in a six-round bout at Milwaukee on January 26…

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Racing Budget Training Notes Finmark Goes Well Fixtures

The Sun · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 4

Friday,--Tirramia races. Saturday.--Moorefield races, Rosebery races. Monday.--Kensington acceptances…

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Interstate Sailing Queensland's Challenge Dates for Races Fixed

Evening News · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 2

The match races between the Queensland boats, Vision and L.F.H. and the N.S.W. representatives, Kiamet and Mascotte, for £100 per boat, will be…

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