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Sport, 1937

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Golf Ball Chase Costs £5 Girl in Garden Assault Case

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

A GOLF ball, putted along the street, rolled under a gate and the girl went after it ... to trouble…

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Noise on Tennis Court. Screeching Women and Bashing of Bails

The St George Call · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

Complaining that the banging of balls and the screeching of tennis players from a nearby tennis court was keeping him and his wife awake till…

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Hawkesbury Enters Semi-final Easy Win in Country Tennis Tournament

The Sun · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 3

HAWKESBURY qualified for the semi-finals of the men's knock-out competition by eliminating Grafton City in the country tennis carnival to-day. J. Rodgers and N. Young won Grafton City's only…

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Motor Cycling News Miniature T.T. Races At Penrith

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 13

AT the Miniature T.T. meeting, promoted by the Harley Davidson Motor Cycle Club at Soper's Estate, near Penrith, on New Year's Day, the outstanding rider was Harry Hinton, who won the Junior Scratch Race on a standard stock model 349 c.c…

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Cricket. Team All of One Name Beats the Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 15

Two men and their nine sons, named Longbottom, took the field at Jubilee Oval. Kogarah, yesterday, and defeated a strong Teachers' cricket team by 93 runs. The match…

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Tennis Results Illawarra Suburbs’ Assn. Publicity Officer’s Notes. Annual Meeting

The St George Call · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 3

The Annual Meeting of the Association will be held in the Club house, Chapel St. Rockdale, on Monday the 25th inst. The attention of members…

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Moorefield Form Reviewed. To-morrow's Races. Prospects Discussed. Another Late Start

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 16

The Moorefield Racing Club has eight races on its programme to-morrow. A start will not be made until 2 o'clock, the last venture of a late start having…

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Cricket Argument. Leads to Street Fight. Merits of Bradman and Hammond. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 12

Two friends, disputing in Bourke-street early this morning about the merits of Bradman and Hammond as batsmen, became so heated that they came to blows…

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'Hush' Cricket Inquiry Unfair to the Players Rumors Probed By Board No Action Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

AFTER hearing the four players summoned before it in sensational circumstances after the conclusion of the third Test match…

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Hobbs's Views. Win Good for Cricket. (Copyright in all countries. Reproduction in whole or part forbidden) MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 15

England never had a chance from the start. Rain helped England in the first two tests, but there is this difference—in these, England placed itself in a strong position before…

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Modern Apparatus. Athletics Championships

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 15

For the first time in the history of the sport the Amateur Athletic Association will use an all-steel pole vaulting standard for the State track and field championships at…

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Third Annual Athletic and Cycling Carnival

The St George Call · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

The St. George club are now making final arrangements for the launching of their 3rd Annual Carnival which is to take place at Hurstville Oval,…

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Athletics

The St George Call · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

Club racing was resumed at Hurstville Oval last Tuesday night after three weeks recess, the results for events being as follows:—…

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Swimming. Women's Trials

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 22

The New South Wales Women's Swimming Association held a 440 yards trial at the North Sydney pool last night. Miss Joan Davies won the event in 6m 15 2-5s. Miss v. Scales was second in…

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Tennis Lecture

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 17

Eastern Suburbs Hardcourt Tennis Association has arranged for Mr. Les. Hall, the Professional coach, to Give a series of lecture-demonstrations, entitled "How to Play…

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Bowls. Chatswood v EDUCATION

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 21

CHATSWOOD 166 v EDUCATION 119.—At chatswood; Smith, Spooner, Alley (Victoria), Pidgeon (C.), 24; v Hough, McAulay, Botham, O'Conor (E.), 24; McLachlan, Brown, Fraser, Price, 30, v…

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Wagga Swimming Campaign. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 14

The Wagga Municipal Council has been conducting swimming lessons during the school vacation More than 100 children received instruction and the tests to-day revealed that…

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Football Teams' Match

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 22

Balmain and Western Suburbs Rugby League Football Clubs will meet in a cricket match to be played on Sunday at 10 a.m. on the Granville Showground…

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Swimming Titles Keen Competition. Prospects Reviewed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 21

Close competition is expected in the Australian Amateur Swimming championships which will be decided at two carnivals—one in Sydney and the other…

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Swimming Bodies Clash Medica's Tour Deadlock

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 18

A DEADLOCK has occurred between the New South Wales and Queensland Amateur Swimming Associations…

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