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Sport, 1950

8,902 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250

Cricket Stops As Men Fight

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 2

THE interstate cricket game between N.S.W. and South Australia at the S.C.G. this afternoon was…

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Cricket Steps As Men Fight

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 2

THE interstate cricket game between N.S.W. and South Australia at the S.C.G. this afternoon was…

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Melbourne Races Horses Fall in Hurdle at Caulfield

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- After several horses had fallen at the first jump in the Hawthorn Hurdle at Caulfield…

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Melbourne Races Merry Scout Held Lead in Juvenile

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hanging on grimly in the last half furlong, the consistent Merry Scout won the Juvenile…

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Melbourne Races Merry Scout Held Lead in Juvenile

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hanging on grimly in the last half furlong, the consistent Merry Scout won the Juvenile…

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Bowls Talk

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 12

A MIX-UP has been caused in the pennants competition because at least two clubs have arranged only three fours to play in the first round of No. 4 Pennant…

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Bowls Without Bias

Truth · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 30

The South African Empire Games team, which has been playing a series of matches in Sydney, will leave for New Zealand next Thursday. The Australian seven is booked per…

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Racing Notes

Truth · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 23

EDGAR BRITT spent a pleasant day among many of his old cronies at Randwick yesterday — the first…

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Swimming Official's Reply to Bourke

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 30

The New South Wales Swimming Association's honorary secretary (Mr. Sid Grange) said last night he resented Bruce Bourke's statements on the Empire Games Fund…

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Big Tennis "Gate"

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 8

More than 5,000 people paid £720 to see play in yesterday's women's tennis "Test" between Australia and America. This brought the total…

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Maths may help his bowls

The Sun · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 24

ALBERT NEWTON, Australia's singles bowls Empire Games representative, is using…

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Men's Tennis Team Chosen

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 15

Bill Sidwell and Frank Sedgman will be the Australian team to play Czech Jaroslav Drobny and South African…

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Boy drowns swimming to canoe in dam

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 16

A seven-year-old boy was drowned in a dam at Carnarvon golf course yesterday while trying to swim to a playmate's makeshift canoe…

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Organdie worn at races

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 41

A SUDDEN crop of organdie frocks appeared at the Warwick Farm January meeting…

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Gay cottons for tennis fans

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 39

COOL cottons with suntops and boleros were first favorites with women spectators at the International Women's tennis match at the White City yesterday…

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Machine may help football handling

The Sun · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 23

NSW Rugby Union Secretary Alex Marks will cable for details of a cannonball football machine which English football teams are trying out at practice. The machine can "fire"…

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Thomson 80 In U.S. Golf

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 6

PEBBLE BEACH (Calif.), Jan. 14 (A.A.P.).—Australian Peter Thomson yesterday returned an 80 in the…

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Big Gambling May Cripple Harbor Races

The Sun · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 5

HEAVY GAMBLING at Sunday sailing races is worrying officials of the 18-footers' League. They fear that illegal…

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Barnes Is Still a Cricket Force

Truth · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 28

Sid Barnes, Australian lest batsman, in his comeback yesterday for North Sydney against Waverley in grade cricket, showed he had lost none of his ability with a solid 28…

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Lunch Put Quick Step Into Cricket Funeral

Truth · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 27

EAST LONDON, Saturday.—No lullaby could ever be as sleep inducing as Australia's opening batsmen Arthur Morris and Ken Archer were against Border here today—that is before lunch up to which…

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