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Sport, 1951

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To Meet Enzed in Tennis Tilts

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 23

The following team has been selected to represent N.S.W. against the visiting New Zealand tennis team at Killara…

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Pro. tennis stars at Burwood today

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 22

Visiting professional tennis circus manager Charlie Sam and assistants will spend to-day getting the Ice Palais…

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Style Spy . . . at the Cricket

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 37

OUT at the Test match we decided that many Sydney women really take their cricket game seriously . . . because surely they wouldn't dress like that for fun? 1. You looked nice and…

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Many collapse in heat at cricket

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 1

MORE than 60 persons collapsed in the heat at Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday…

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Women cricket fans choose sunfrock fashion at Test

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 33

FASHIONS at the second day of the Test cricket at Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday were designed for the heat, most women wearing bare-topped sunfrocks and shady hats as they did on Friday. More than 50,000 watched…

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Test Cricket: How It All Began By a Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 1

YESTERDAY was the second day of the Third Test, 1950-51 series. What is it that sends a team of men 12,000 miles backwards and forwards every fourth year to contend for the…

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Smart Millinery At The Test Match Anything "Went" In Hat Styles At Test Cricket

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 12

EVERY type of hat from the "G.I." version of the cotton cricket cap to huge shapes of straw, and even formal afternoon hats, covered the heads of women who watched the second day's cricket in the third Test at the Sydney…

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Finish and Turn Pictures of Yesterday's Moorefield Races FINISH—2-Year-Old Maiden Stakes (Fillies).—5 furlongs

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 20

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Mailey looks back to the golden age of cricket... Records prove Test team needs a slow leg-spinner

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 16

After noting that the Australian selectors failed to choose a slow leg-spinner for the third Test team, I'm glad beards and moustaches are no…

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Swimming

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 7

BRONTE AMATEURS —66yds handicap: J. Coupe, 42s, 1; J. McGrath, 2; J. Mealey, 3. 33yds A grade: R. Taylor, 24s, 1; W. Hurt, 2; B. Owens, 3. 33yds…

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Women's Cricket

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 18

Queensland. Juniors and Metropolitan II will meet in a women's cricket match tomorrow at University Square,…

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Locke-hogan Golf Clash Suggested

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 19

LONDON, Monday. -- The Johannesburg Sports Writers' Society recently voted Bobby Locke, South African and…

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Veteran leads U.S. golf field

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 19

LOS ANGELES, Sunday. --Veteran Henry Ransom returned a one-over-par 72 to retain the lead at the end of…

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Old System for Inter-club Golf

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 14

This year's inter-club golf competition matches will be played on o home-and-home basis. Each match will last two…

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American tennis pros. play despite illness

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 15

American professional tennis players Donald Budge and Frank Parker played at Burwood yesterday although both Were ill…

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Reds Racing to Cut Off Allies Drive toward coast

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Sun. (A.A.P.).--Communist forces in Korea today…

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Professionals Open Sydney Season U.s. Tennis Trio "Could Beat Any Amateur"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 6

It is doubtful whether any amateur in the world could win from any one of the trio of visiting American tennis professionals — Donald Budge, Pancho Gonzales and Frank…

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Team and individual sports in City yesterday Tennis pros. will play on hardwood

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 16

Workmen hare covered the entire floor space of 17,200 square feet at the Ice Palais, Moore Park, with pressed hardwood for tonight's first indoor professional tennis…

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Bowls

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 24

The City Bowling Club is striking a new note for bowlers this year by conducting-- with the Association's permission-- a…

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International Bowls Start

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 23

The first of the series of matches with United Kingdom bowlers started today against N.S.W. at North…

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