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Newspaper
Coffs Harbour Advocate
Location
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 11, 1948
Page
4
Coffs Tennis Club begins its annual championships with singles doubles and mixed events across grades. Notable results include Malouf defeating Stennett 6 4 6 1 and Myers sweeping Madock 6 0 6 0, with several other matches producing decisive scores.
Coffs hockey players travel to Grafton on Sunday for keen matches. Bus leaves Jetty Park at 9 30 am sharp with practice for selected players on Saturday. Firsts capt A Plaherty leads a squad including E Armstrong and B Scrimgeour. Seconds capt Rankin list includes M Binskin and T Goodenough.
Results at Coffs Bowling Green show Hatch and Swift 214 over Wal lace and Harrison 19. Ruthning and Sawyer 214 defeated Buckler and Gilchrist 19. Cayton Manuel Fanning and T Smith Wheeler Kim Morley Gorton and MacDonald 20. Hannaford Turner acliff 27d Taylor 1% Hardy 26, Pearce Johnson and Nolin 23 ad Wheeler Jeffrey and Fogarty W heat and Ruthning and Buckler 24d.
A depleted Coffs League side beat Orara League 14 to 11 at Jetty Oval on Sunday. key contributors were Harves Lowery and W Bevan for Coffs, with R Thompson injured. Coffs scorers included Cos grove Ferguson two and Thompson. Orara’s were Rowsell Brenna and Lickiss with Watkin converting. Reserves saw Coffs win 103 with Milne Duncan and Maher scoring, while Thomas tallied for Orara.
The schedule lists deferred matches to finish by Friday 21st inst. Teams include Hotshots Nighthawks Coffs 1 Night Owls Bungarribee Jetty 1 Coramba Seagulls and Seagulls scheduled across May 11 12 13 18 and 20 with pairings such as Hotshots vs Coramba and Bungarribee vs Coffs 1.
The School of Arts hosted the Annual Ball of the Coffs Tennis Club on Friday night with festive decorations and smart attire. Guests enjoyed rhythmic music by Pullen's and Ace bands, a supper organized by local ladies, and roles filled by F Adamson as Social Secretary and others including Miss Wal Burke, R Rayner, I Amos, N Maddock, E A Flaherty, and Jack Grimmond as MC. Attendance was lower than expected due to recent sonar function overloads, but the event was a success.
Fragmentary OCR shows a sequence of surnames and titles including Wallace Martyn Taylor Macdonald Harri son Lockyer McGregor Swift Mesdames Atherton Wood Gentle Fanning Franklin Archibald Wal lace Harrison Dowling Buckler.
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