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Sport, 1960

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30 Players In Table Tennis Tournament

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 August 1960 · page 12

George Puchalski defeated a record field of 30 players to win the Kadimah-Progress weekly…

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South Africans to Help Run Cricket

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 August 1960 · page 12

A South African Jew in Australia for only three weeks was elected…

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Carnival Tennis C'ships Issue Revived by Clubs

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 August 1960 · page 12

A move to re-introduce tennis championships at interstate sports carnivals was made at the July meeting of JASA last week…

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SCANNING the Town How to Mix Golf with Charity

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 August 1960 · page 8

A VERY busy North Shorite these days is attractive Mrs Elvira Adelstein, of Greenwich, who is efficiently carrying out a heavy schedule in the dual role of Monash Golf Club's social secretary…

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Tennis dance

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 August 1960 · page 12

The Fairfield Junior Tennis Social Club will hold a dance at the Masonic Hall, Merrylands, on…

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Cricket Association Prepares for Season

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 August 1960 · page 3

The 1960-61 cricket competition in the Southern Districts will be conducted in A, B, C, and D grades and under fourteen years for schoolboys. This was decided at the adjourned annual meeting of…

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Veterans' bowls tourney

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 5

Members of the Leo McCarthy Memorial Smithfield R.S.L. Club watched the finals of…

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Junior tennis dance

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 3

The next dance of the Fairfield Junior Tennis Club will be held at the Merry lands Masonic…

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Golf club championship decided

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 17

The Ernest Hiller Social Golf Club held its final 18 holes of the Club Championships at Leonay on Sunday. Thirty-two players turned up to see the…

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R.S.L. golf championships

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 18

With the Fairfield R.S.L. Golf Club Championships over for 1960, all members have settled down to their normal way of life…

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A Life of Cricket

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 23

Mr. Syd Smith, of Chatswood, at 80 years of age, has entered his 26th…

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Brothers Cricket Club Reports

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 9

"It is said big things have small beginnings, and it is better to grow slowly rather than bloom suddenly and lade away," wrote W. T. Timbs, president of the Brothers' Cricket Club, in presenting his annual report recently…

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New Zealand visitors at golf day

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 2

A most enjoyable day was held at Dunheved Golf Club, St. Marys, by the Peek Frean Social Golf Club on Saturday, July 29…

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Sports Page Football "Greats" Forwards—the great and the fair By a Staff Reporter

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 22

When I write of forwards I mean forwards, not "sluggers". There have been plenty of "sluggers". There will be plenty…

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Big athletics for Fairfield

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 18

With the weather so bad on Saturday, no cross country events were possible for the Fairfield Ladies' Amateur Athletic Club…

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Successes in school athletics

The Biz · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 8

It was very pleasing to see so many energetic workers attend for Fairfield Amateur Athletic Club's top dressing programme…

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GOLF Leonay Golf

Nepean Times · Thursday 11 August 1960 · page 12

The final of the Gordon Killion knock-out competition at Leonay last Saturday was won by G. Hulbert,…

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Spostics Golf Day

Nepean Times · Thursday 11 August 1960 · page 11

Saturday, Augrust 20, is the day chosen by the Nepean District Spastic Council for its annual Golf Day,…

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Wallacia Women s Bowls

Nepean Times · Thursday 11 August 1960 · page 11

Wallacia Women's Bowling Club's "queen of the green, Mrs. Dot Gilbert, retains the title, and the brooch, after…

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Junior Cricket

Nepean Times · Thursday 11 August 1960 · page 8

"We believe that if umpires were engaged for junior cricket on Saturday mornings next season it would bring a…

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