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Footy Week morphs into Sunday Sport, Sunday News
When Gordon Barton closed the Sunday Observer newspaper in 1971, Maxwell Newton was quick to replace it with the Melbourne Observer newspaper within a fortnight. Newton enlisted Victorian Football League identity Harry Beitzel to build the sports section of the newspaper for a sports-mad Melbourne readership. This was still an era of all VFL matches…
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