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Sport, 1936

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Davis Cup Tennis "Big Four?" Quist, McGRATH, Hopman, Bromwich

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

The first hint of a 1936 Australian Davis Cup challenge was revealed yesterday. Adrian Quist (South Australia) and John…

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Chance For Sirocco Likes Track Speedy Lot Ascot Races

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2

Although fields for Ascot to-morrow might appear to be on the slender side, in reality they are quite bulky…

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Wants to Visit U.S.A. Football Team FREMANTLE

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 10

Hopes of making arrangements for the visit of a Stanford (U.S.A.) University football team to Australia are held by Mr. Harry W. Maloney,…

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Silver Jubilee And Curator Impress As Likely Pair Were Not Ready for Summer Racing Challenge and Anniversary Handicap Prospects Order of Favoritism

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2

FOR the next three weeks or so racegoers will be devoting a good deal of consideration to the prospects of candidates for the Challenge. Stakes and Anniversary Handicap--the chief double to be decided at the A.J.C. Anniversary meeting, set down…

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Athletics State "Try-outs"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

Members of the State team to contest national track title honors at Hobart On January 15 and 18 have a final try-out to-night at the Sports Ground at the T. P…

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Lawn Tennis

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 38

WHILE the successes of J. Crawford in the tournament at Ashfield in the County of Cumberland championships last Saturday showed him able, when…

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Boxing. Turiello and Blatch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 18

Alf Blatch, lightweight champion of Australia who will meet Saverio Turlello at the stadium next Monday night, will give an exhibition at McQuillans Gymnasium. O'Connell-street, Newtown, at…

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Boxing Palmer and Kelly

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

Leo Kelly's sequence of knock-out victories has made him the boxing sensation of the season. Can the promoters find anybody in Australia…

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SWIMMING Championship Night at Drummoyne

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

The second State championship carnival of the present series will be held at Drummoyne Baths to-night. The New Zealand sprinter Walter Jarvis…

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Cricket Book

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 17

"Cricket in Firelight," by Richard Binns, a London Journalist, has been published by Selwyn and Blount. Ltd. Mr. Binns has provided something different in cricket literature. It will be…

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BOXING Carroll-Van Klaverin Again

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 9

LITERALLY speaking, Jack Carroll eclipsed himself by battling so brilliantly against Bep Van Klaverin on the Sydney Sports Ground last Boxing Day…

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SWIMMING. Women's Championships. Miss Mackay's Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 14

The New South Wales Women's Amateur Swimming Association held its first championship carnival of the season at Coogee Aquarium last night…

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Bowls President's Two Rink Today

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 3

Today is the last day for the playing of the second round of the association president's two-rink competition…

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Are Qualifying Golf Rounds Necessary?

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 37

NOW shall this year's Amateur championship be played? is the question that will be shortly be considered by the match committee of the New South Wales Golf Council. Shall it be…

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Rugby Union Countrymen for City All States' Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

If management committee plana mature, the cream of Rugby Union footballers from three States will be concentrated in Sydney at one time…

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U.s.a. Football Visit

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

FREMANTLE, Tuesday.--Hopes of making arrangements for tho visit of a Stanford (U.S.A.) University football team to Australia are held by Mr. Harry W. Maloney,…

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Midget Car Racing. To-night's Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 18

The programme of midget car racing sche[?] for the Wentworth Park Speedway Glebe tonight, holds promise of exciting races. The main attraction will be a teams race, which will…

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Tennis Stars Off to Title Tourney

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

STAR tennis players lead a strenuous life Viv. McGrath will be back from New Zealand on Saturday, and will…

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Bundle of Letters Centenary Cricket?

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 15

Mr. G. H. Wilson suggests:--In connection with the forthcoming Sydney festivities, I suggest that the Australian XI. should challenge a…

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The Cricket on the Hearth

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 19

YOU remember that Charles Dickens wrote a book called "The Cricket on the Hearth." It was always considered a friendly thing to have a cricket chirping…

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