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Sport, 1935

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Tennis Vaudevillian Menzel Doesn't Like Kooyong Courts MELBOURNE

The Labor Daily · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 4

MENZEL has been full of complaints about Australian playing conditions. His latest is a hot attack through the news columns on the courts at Kooyong. He claims that…

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Lawn Tennis. Crawford Beats Quist After Five Set Struggle. Surprise in the Doubles. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 12

Watched by a gallery of 5000, J. C[?] (N.S.W.), the Austiallan No. 1 player, and A Quist (S.A.), contested the first semifinal of the singles championship of Austialia…

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Athletics. Western Suburbs Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 16

The weekly meeting of Western Suburbs Club was held at Concord Oval on Wednesday evening Rain and head winds were not favourable for good [?]erformance…

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Football. Rugby League. New Club's Activities

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 21

Nomination night of the newly-formed Canterbury-Bankstown Rugby League Football Club was largely attended, and keen enthusiasm prevailed. The acting officials—Messrs. F. W. Rose, patron;…

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Rowing. Anniversary Regatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 21

Record entries have been received for all r[?]wing and [?]c[?]lling races at the Anniversary R[?]g[?]tta on January [?]. Seven crews have entered for the [?]r fours, twelv[?] for the m[?] [?]our[?], nine…

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Swimming. Heats Decided

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 21

Heats of several events, the [?]nals of which will form portion of the programme at the carnival this afternoon, were decided last night by the N.[?].W. Amat[?]ur Swimming Association at the Domain…

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Parramatta Swimming Carnival

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 3

A swimming carnival will be held at Lake Parramatta on Anniversary Day (January 28). The programme will include boxing and wrestling…

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Boxing. Cormier's Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 20

The American featherweight boxer Vernon Cormier, who makes his first appearance in Australia on Monday night, when he will oppose Mer[?] Blandon at the Sydney Stadium, has only lost one…

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Swimming for the Film

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 10

Pictures of the Japanese swimmers in action obtained by Fox Movietone will be shown at the Plaza, Regent, and Empire Theatres to-day, and…

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NOVELTY Swimming Re-union

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 7

For Sydney Club's 110 yards championship at its Jubilee reunion at the Domain Baths next Saturday, the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Jack Dunningham) has…

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Bowls. To-day's Pennants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 21

Sixteen hundred players and more will be [?]ous again to-day to resume the postponed penna[?] A few more wet week-ends must interfere with the [?]t-l[?]d p[?]n[?] of the p[?]nn[?]nt committee,…

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Shot Teed Golf Ball

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 1

PLAYING on Thornton Hall golf course on a recent afternoon, Mrs Cilin had a very unpleasant experience, when one of two lads standing…

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Professional Tennis (Special Service)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 2

PHILADELPHIA, Friday.--The professional tennis players, Tilden and Vines, beat Lott and Stoefen. 12-10, 2-6, 6-2, 0-6. 6-2. Vines v. Stoofen. 7-5. 6-3: Lott v. Tilden…

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Cricket Post-mortems

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 10

The cricket Tests of 1934 have been fought all over again most meticu[?]ously in two books by famous cricketers: "The Fight for the Ashes, 1934," by Jack Hobbs, and "Kissing…

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Greyhound Racing. Harold Park Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 20

One of the most interesting events, the halfmile, has been omitted from the programme for the New South Wales Trotting Club's mechanical hare meeting at Harold Park to-night. Insufficient…

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Speedway Racing. To-night's Events

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 20

The motor cycle speedway racing at the Royal Agricultural Ground has broken all records this year, both in attendances and standard of the competitors. From every aspect the sport seems…

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League Players at Cricket

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 3

University past and present Rugby League players will meet in their annual cricket match to-morrow week at the Agricultural Ground, commencing at 10 o'clock. All…

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First Grade Cricket Draw

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 2

NINTH round of grade cricket commence to-day. Draw is: North Sydney v Randwick,…

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Off Course Well Known Racing Man

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 5

There was a stir at Canterbury park to-day when a well-known racing man was escorted off the course by the racing supervisors' staff. The…

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Racqueteers From The Country-- Tennis Champions!

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 6

PADDY SWEENEY, the 22 stone veteran tennis enthusiast from Walcha, was musing on the verandah of the club-house…

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