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Sport, 1935

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Pennant Bowls Third Round Matches To-day

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 2

The third round of the bowls pennant matches will be played to-day. In the first grade several fixtures between unbeaten teams should be…

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R. League Teams at Cricket

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 3

Balmain and Eastern Suburbs Busby League Clubs are to play to-day in a cricket match at the Sports Ground, commencing at 10 a.m…

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Aquatic Golf Ferry for Players at Canberra

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

CANBERRA, Friday.--Aquatic golf is an innovation which should add to the fame of the Royal Canberra Club…

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For Cups Sydney Club Rowers Bright Racing

The Sun · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 6

Continuing their Stenn and Downie Cups competition over the Woolloomooloo Bay course this afternoon Sydney Club's…

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New Fashion in Tennis Attire Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY junior Miss Dot Greenwood was the oynosure of feminine ayes at the Albert tannic courts to-day…

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Forcing Cricket Likely In Club Games

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 3

TO such an extent did the rain of last Saturday upset grade cricket that the leading clubs will have to race the clock when the round is…

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Speedway Stars in Match Races To-night

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 2

TO-NIGHT'S speedway programme at the Showground promises to be one of the most spectacular ever seen in Sydney…

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Do We Take Our Cricket Too Seriously?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 6

MISS BETTY ARCHDALE, captain of the English women's cricket team now engaged in a Test…

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Scoffs at It Lady On Tennis Offer LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 1

Mrs. Whittingstall, the tennis player, has cabled her refusal of W. O'Brien's offer. She says it is not worth becoming a professional for so…

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Women's Cricket. Second Test Match. Australia's Defensive Batting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 20

After a weak start in the second test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday the Australian women cricketers retrieved the position and at stumps had lost nine wickets for…

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Cricket. To-day's Grade Matches. Drawn Games Likely

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 20

Many of the first-grade matches were greatly affected by the severe storm in Sydney last Saturday, and as a result drawn fames should be numerous when the eighth round concludes this…

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A Vital Match Inter-varsity Cricket in Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 2

The annual inter-University cricket match between Sydney and Melbourne, which is to be played in Melbourne next Tuesday, Wednesday,…

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Holidays in the Botanic Gardens: Women's International Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 18

Sunshine and holidays combine to make the Botanic Gardens a perfect playground, as these children found yesterday. The second women's international match began at the Cricket Ground yesterday. Above: Miss J. Brewer (Australia) jumps out to drive the English slow bowler Miss M. Maclagan, but misses. Top, right:…

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CRICKET First Round Concludes Rooty Hill's Good Lead

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

The first round of the loca1 competitions concluded on Saturday, and the position now is that Rooty Hill has a good lead in A Grade from Railway I.,…

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Tennis Champions Reported Offers to Turn Professionals. New York, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 15

W. O'Brien, the sports promoter, has announced that, F. J. Perry, the world's champion amateur tennis player, now in Australia, will sign an agreement to turn professional…

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Bromwich Defeats Kirby. Tennis Surprises. Perry and Hughes Menaced. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 15

John Bromwich, the 16-year-old New South Wales boy, caused a tennis sensation at the Kooyong courts this afternoon, when he eliminated the South African Davis Cup…

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Ascot Races (Wed.) Easy Prey For The Favorite Gay Hawk

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

GAY HAWK didn't get "the bird" from backers in the second division of the Ascot Flying. He started favorite at…

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Cricket. South African Team to Tour England. Capetown, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 15

The following team has been chosen to tour England:— H. F. Wade (captain), H. B. Cameron (vice-captain), I. J. Siedle, B. Mitchell, A. D. Nourse,…

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Lawn Tennis. Bromwich Beats Kirby. Perry and Hughes in Danger. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 20

The New South Wales juniors, J. Bromwich and A. Huxley, were undoubtedly the stars of the fourth day of the Australian tennis championships which were continued…

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Met Himself When Two Entries Did Not Work Out Tennis Pen Pictures

The Sun · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 3

All tennis players like to win, but all do not play the game with studied seriousness. While some fight with set teeth and screwed up face, others play light-heartedly, giving vent to the exuberance they feel should be associated…

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