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Sport, 1927

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Shoalhaven Regatta

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 13

The Shoalhaven Rowing Club has received record entries for its regatta and woodchop, to be held near Nowra to-day. The programme is one of the most attractive and liberal offered…

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Swimming

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 13

URUNGA. -- At the annual swimming carnival there were many city and North Coast competitors. The chief results were: -- Water Polo. -- First heat, Urunga beat…

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Rugby's Dash

The Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 8

A great, deal of local interest was, created by a standard model Rugby Six which broke all records, for the district by its dash from Bourke to Nyngan covering a…

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Balmain Regatta [?]Nal Arrangements

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 3

annual Balmain regatta will take [?] Monds. The liner Jervis Bay [?] secured as fiagship for the re[?] and will be moored to the wharf…

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BOXING To-night's Championship

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 10

Billy Grime, feather and lightweight champion of Australia, is desirous of holding the welter weight crown, and with that end in view is to box Eddie Butcher, the holder, at…

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Golf Good Resolutions

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 4

THIS time of the year is chiefly noted for the fact that no end of god resolutions are made. That [?]ry one who makes them knows that they will be [?]rompily…

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Rugby Record 279 Cars Assembled

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 12

Working in unison and at high pressure, the men of the assembly plant put every ounce of energy into their efforts so that there would be no…

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Manly Golf Club Dance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 6

Members of the Manly Golf Club and their fi lends spent a very hippy ending to the old year at the dance which they held at the club last night. In the room where dancing…

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Bowls City Club v. WALLSEND

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 13

At the city green, in College Street, visitors are always welcome. So it was that a team from Wallsend played a game with City Club representatives yesterday…

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Holiday Racing Maroubra Speedway

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 3

The following handicaps have been declared for events to be decided at the Speedway Royal meeting on Monday night:—…

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Boxing Welter Title Grime v. BUTCHER

The Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 6

"Billy" Grime, featherweight and lightweight champion of Australia, will attempt to win the welterweight title from Eddie Butcher (holder), at the Stadium…

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Victorian Racing Indian Clean Up

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 11

Indian machines certainly had a lion's share of the laurels decided in Victorian motor cycling on Boxing Day, Winning three races, two of…

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Boxing. To-night's Fight Grime v. BUTCHER

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 2

A [?]ncy Stadium to-night, [?]siasts will witness a [?]al contest. Feather and [?]right champion Billy…

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Week-end Golf Hint Putting Problems

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

By Hector Morrison, Amateur Champion of N.S.W. THERE'S no such thing as orthodoxy in green work…

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Football in Scotland London

The Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 3

In the Scottish Second League, Clydebank beat Dumbarton by 6 points to 2…

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Cricket Special Interest in Tests

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 4

ONE afternoon on the A[?]gi—about fifteen miles from the equctor, to be exact—I was chatting about cricket with Mr. H. D. M'Lelland, the recently retired…

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The Moving Picture Show The New Golf

The Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 4

Dr. Alister Mackenzie is in favor of abolishing bunkers und rough on golfcourses, and of widening the fairways…

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Speed Boats Holiday Racing Port Hacking Events

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 3

It was unfortunate for the Port Hacking Motor Boat club last Monday that owing to the was weather the races had to be postponed. Weather permitting, the…

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Another Suzanne Surprise Tennis London, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 2

In the semi-flnal of the covered courts Christmas tournament in Paris, Eileen Bennett surprisingly defeated Suzanne Deve 6-1, 6-1. Miss…

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Cleaning Up Coursing Victoria at Work the Heggart Case Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 5

Coursing in Victoria is causing sensation after sensation Following closely upon the Oaks case the National Coursing Club set out on a…

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