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Sport, 1949

8,241 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 250

Melbourne Races Park Stks. Easy For St. Razzle

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- St. Razzle easily defeated a big field in the Park Stakes at Caulfield today, whining…

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Melbourne Races Bright Sea Too Bright In Juvenile

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Bright Sea finished determinedly along the rails to win the Juvenile Stakes at…

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Melbourne Races Gallant Gent' Gallant In Hurdle Win

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Gallant Gentleman was responsible for probably the best effort ever seen In the…

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Melbourne Races Bright See Too Bright in Juvenile

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Bright Sea finished determinedly along the rails to win the Juvenile Stakes at…

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Melbourne Races Gallant Gent. Gallant In Hurdle Win

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Gallant Gentleman was responsible for probably the best effort ever seen in the…

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Melbourne Races Mokan On A Protest In 2-Miler

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --Stewards created an all- time record in. the quick manner in which the protest by…

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Melbourne Races Mokan On A Protest In 2-Miler

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --Stewards created an all- time record in the quick manner in which the protest by…

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Athletics Stars On Sports Parade Exhibition Sprint Likely If La Beach Disqualified

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 20

If Panamanian sprinter Lloyd La Beach "breaks" and is disqualified in his heat of the Australian 100 yards championship at Sydney Cricket Ground today, he will probably give an exhibition run later in the day…

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Women's Sport Athletic Trio of Shirleys

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 11

When Fanny Blankers-Koen takes the field in the 100 yards sprint on Melbourne Cricket Ground next…

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Huge Audience for Athletics

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 10

Huge crowds had lined up outside the Sydney Cricket Ground this afternoon for the Australian Athletic Championships. Half an hour both main stands were crowded…

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Bowls Without Bias

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1949 · page 30

Association secretary Charlie Smart stresses that entries for the A.B.C. Championship Carnival to be held at Brisbane should be forwarded to him through entrant's respective club…

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Racing Notes

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1949 · page 19

HIGH IDEALS, runner-up to Barnsley in yesterday's Warwick January Handicap at Randwick, is to be specially…

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Jungle setting for Philippines open golf

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1949 · page 26

If the fussy Filipino greenkeepers at Wack Wack Golf Club, near Manila, have tidied up the war damage, the course should still be the…

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Cricket was the worst pest

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1949 · page 9

South Australian horticulturalists wish that international cricketers would stay away from…

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A Big Year in Golf U.k. Invades the States

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1949 · page 28

LONDON, Saturday.—The year 1949 promises to be a big one for British golf. The fixture…

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Boxing Star Has Religion

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 20

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Newest boxing sensation is New York's Vince Foster, from Omaha, who, according to Lewis Burton in yesterday's Journal American was a "drunkard and saloon fighter who…

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Boxing Star Has Religion

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 20

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Newest boxing sensation is New York's Vince Foster, from Omaha, who, according to Lewis Burton in yesterday's Journal American was a "drunkard and saloon fighter who…

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Boxing Star Has Religion

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 20

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Newest boxing sensation is New York's Vince Foster, from Omaha, who, according to Lewis Burton in yesterday's Journal American was a "drunkard and saloon fighter who…

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Boxing Star Has Religion

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 20

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Newest boxing sensation is New York's Vince Foster, from Omaha, who, according to Lewis Burton in yesterday's Journal American was a "drunkard and saloon fighter who…

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Boxing Star Has Religion

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 20

NEW YORK, Monday.—Newest boxing sensation is New York's Vince Foster, from Omaha, who, according to Lewis Burton in yesterday's Journal American was a "drunkard and saloon fighter who…

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