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Article : 130 wordsAfter a great deal of uncertainty South Melbourne football selectors decided last night to include L. Nash in the team to play against ...
Article : 173 wordsBacks: Woods, Regan, Crowe, Half-backs: Ross, Fraser, Froude. Centres: Morgan, Whelan, Carmody. Half-forwards: Riley, Kyne, Doherly. ...
Article : 72 wordsBEAUFORT.—Tournament Scores.—Bogey—P. T. Stevenson (won on count back) and G. F. Ellis, square; L. McMahon, 1 down; H. Miller, E. S. Crouch, T. J. Buchan, 3 down; N. B. Acton, 4 ...
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Article : 312 wordsH. A. Coldham, the former Australian junior champion, was defeated by the Greek Davis Cup player G. Nicolaidis, in the third round of the Cumberland lawn tennis championships ...
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Article : 316 wordsDraw for week-end matches:— Saturday.—1.45—B. Eccles v. A. Shea (semi-final), B. Sheehan v. R. McGuinness (semi-final). 2—J. Hyde v. B. Kearney. 2.30—Misses K. ...
Article : 182 wordsFor the fifth year in succession Ormond won the inter-collegiate tennis premiership when it defeated Queen's 8 rubbers to nil, on the University courts yesterday. ...
Article : 167 wordsMrs. Sloan Morpeth and Mrs. Enos Shaw, playing from a joint handicap of four, not only won the handicap with a net 74 in the charity day foursomes event ...
Article : 239 wordsGames for Saturday.—A Grade Final—Richmond Imperials v. Hampton (Leverritt), at Elsternwick Park. H Grade Grand Final—Victoria Brewery Juniors v. Albion Rovers (Spencer), at Fawkner ...
Article : 53 wordsIn South Melbourne's team to meet Collingwood, Faul, Johnson Reid, and Nash will replace Moore, Davies, Leask, and L. Thomas. The 19th man will be ...
Article : 454 wordsGeelong road, Footscray, 11—12, d. South Caulfield, 4—1, in the semi-final of the State schools' premiership. Best players for Footscray were: McClelland, Kernick, Allan, New, Unwin. ...
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Article : 387 wordsThe second semi-final, to be played at Dandenong on Saturday, will bring together the two extreme districts of the association—Pakenham on the east and Clayton on the west. Match ...
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Article : 289 wordsDAYLESFORD.—The Hepburn Springs annual open meeting was continued Mrs. K. S. Ross, vice-prssident of the Victorian Ladies' Golf Union, won the women's scratch event from a strong field ...
Article : 300 wordsArising out of a number of incidents which occurred at the Association seconds' grand final between Brunswick and Coburg last Suturday, the seconds' tribunal heard six charges against ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Victorian Handball League will send a team to Adelaide in Christmas week to participate in the South Australian Centenary celebrations. The Victorian team will play a match against South ...
Article : 204 wordsAs a curtain-raiser to the League semi-final. Melbourne and Collingwood, for years two of the best teams, will meet in the second semifinal. Both will be strongly represented, and ...
Article : 136 wordsWith the exception of Gibb and Lock (whose injuries will keep them out of the final next saturday), and Smith (who is still suffering from the groin injury that kept him out of ...
Article : 110 wordsAs a "curtain-raiser" to the football match between combined teams of the League and Association, to be played at Olympic Park on the night of the Show holiday. September 24, in a[?]d of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 18 Sep 1936, Page 17
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