Yarmouth Corporation has decided to lay out a municipal golf course on the North Denes. ...
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Article : 71 wordsThere is evidently big money to be made by the cracks in the annual New York Six Days' Race. In the event won by A. J. Clark and Fogler (U.S.A.) last December, Kramer, the ...
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Globe (Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1914), Wed 21 Feb 1912, Page 4
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