Tricks and Games in Swimming
Plain swimming, with its attendant diving, treading water, floating, and rolling in the warm sand, is quite good enough sport for most young people…
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Sport, 1898
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Cricket
FANCY DRESS CRICKET.—Thanks to the energy of the Secretary of the Band Committee and others, the fancy dress cricket match passed off successfully at Brushgrove…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Races in Religion
Dr. E. J. Dillon, writing under this title in one of the recent numbers of a magazine, explains with some care how it is that the Russian Orthodox…
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A MEETING was held at Capp's Hotel, Bowra, last Saturday night, for the purpose of forming a football club. There was a large attendance of intending members. Mr. D…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowra Races
On Saturday evening last a meeting was held at Bowra for the purpose of carrying out arrangements in connection with the races to be held on June 22. Mr. M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Athletic Lung
" Athletic Lung " is a medical term used to designate the abnormal development of lung possessed by some athletes. The condition is produced by those forms of exercise that call…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yamba Athletic Sports
YAMBA. as a popular sen[?] entiees a large number of visitors on holiday. But on Monday last a special attraction was provided in the shape of an excellent programme of sports, which brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Athletic Sports. Bullingen
THE sports held in the Park on Easter Monday were not so successful as on previous occasions. There were, however, about 300 persons in attendance,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M'claren's Views on English and Australian Cricket
Writing in the Manchester Courier Mr. A. C. M'Laren thus sums up the causes of the Englishmen's defeat at the hands of the Australians. It was written during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maclean Football Club
The annual meeting of tho Maclean football club was held on Friday evening and was well attended, Mr. Bailey being in the chair. About 35 members [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Football on the Clarence. a Look Ahead
"Vale cricket! optime venisti, football!" if not in these exact terms, still in words bearing a like import, must soon be the cry of the sport-loving young men of the Clarence. The long and oppressive evenings of the…
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A MEETING was held at the Star Hotel, Macksville, on Saturday, April 9, the purpose of forming a football club, Mr. O. Jex presiding. It was resoived that club be…
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At a meeting of the Grafton and District Cricket Association on Saturday, a number of accounts in connection with the late Sydney-Clarence match were passed. The…
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THE annual general meeting of the Clarence River Football Association was held at the Maclean Hotel on Saturday night, when the following clubs were represented:—Ramornie,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Interest. Bellinger Pony Races
A MEETING of members of the Bellingen Pony and Galloway Club will be held at Mr.T. Barrett's hotel, Bellingen, on Saturday next, at 7.30 p.m, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horse Racing in Sydney
Horse racing the world over seems to be going to the dogs. Most degrading spectacles are now witnessed at every meeting on the Randwick course. The successes or failures of one prominent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence River Rugby Football Association
The annual general meeting was held at Maclean last week, when delegates from the following clubs were present — Grafton, Ramornie, Brushgrove, Southgate, Maclean…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Grafton Tennis Club
The annual meeting of members was held Thursday evening. Mr. Gates, J.P., in the chair. The report showed that since the club had been re-organised 50 members had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Football Fancies. Grafton Defeats Southgate
"Grafton's certain to win the premiership!" was the continent assertion that was frequently bandied about after Saturday's match on the Oval. Such an expression of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Next English Cricket Team
As your readers have already been informed Ranjitsinhji has cabled from Colombo accepting the invitation of the Melbourne Cricket Club to bring out a team of English…
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