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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 25, 1936
Page
6
The Forbes Club hosted its third annual open golf tournament over the weekend. Fifty six competitors entered, with twenty or more visitors from Eugowra Parkes Trundle and Condobolin. The event featured limited play Saturday bogey rounds and a larger Sunday program under dull skies and variable winds.
Partial and garbled notes detail a golf championship at Forbes Club with postponed rounds and confusion over dates. Mentions participants, handicaps, and teams, plus a plan to hold a later Sunday match and a river cup. Several names and venues appear, but the fragmentary text lacks clear outcomes or precise scheduling.
Fragmentary notes describe a local associates tournament with mentions of winners and participants. The text references mountings of teams and individuals, with scattered names and outcomes amid unclear arrangements and dates.
Canowindra gains the verdict over Forbes for the second time this season in a tight football match securing a valuable cup. Forbes previously took the Jack Hore Gold Cup from Canowindra, while Bathurst Meckler Cup stakes were also mentioned in a chaotic report summary.
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