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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1902

248 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 13

Metropolitan Notes. Cricket

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 February 1902 · page 3

CRICKET is in the ascenda[?], the pheno[?]nal scoring of the Englishmen in the match against New South Wales having put all their previous…

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Cricket

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1902 · page 4

Mr. J. G. Jackschon filled his old position of scorer during the England-New South Wales match a week or two ago. The committee of the Melbourne Cricket…

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Cricket

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 2

ON Saturday last Bellingen and Never Never met on the former's wicket, and resulted in a win for Never Never by nine wickets. In their first innings Bellingen were all disposed…

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Inter-district Cricket

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1902 · page 8

The Secretary of the Grafton Association has received a communication from Mr. J. B. O'Niel, of Lismore, stating that an endeavour will be made to send a representative Richmond team…

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Chat About Cricket. Spofforth's Opinions

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1902 · page 8

Again we are on the eve of the departure of an Australian Eleven for England, and if the air be not charged with excitement it is filled with a cricket enthusiasm…

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Victorian Racing. Australian Cup Acceptances. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 1

The acceptances for the Cup are:--Revenue, Limber, Blue Metal, Australian, Haymaker, Barbarossa, Grasspan, Aurous, Flagship, Nitre, Fliutlock, Feud, Felicitous, Verrus…

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International Cricket Match

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 March 1902 · page 8

The match England v. Victoria was resumed on the Melbourne oval on Tuesday in bitterly cold weather. The first innings of the Englishmen was continued by Tyldesley and M'Gabey to the…

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Cricket Chatter

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1902 · page 3

The Atlanta will convey Maclean and Federal players to Cowper and Brushgrove on Saturday. Particulars in our next. Brushgrove team v. Federals at Brushgrove next…

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Cricket. Visit of a Sydney Team

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 March 1902 · page 5

Mr.J.Spencer, who returned from Syduey yesterday, states, that Mr. Shute informed him that he had succeeded in obtaining a team to visit thef northern rivers at Easter…

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Lawn Tennis

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 14 March 1902 · page 2

LAST Saturday week a team from town club were defeated at Bellingen by representatives of the Bellinger Heads club, the scored being-Henderson and Walsh v McLachlan…

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Cricket. ENGLAND v. Broken Hill (By Telegraph.) Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1902 · page 1

IN the cricket match--England v. Broken Hill--the latter, in their first innings, are all out for 221 runs (Coust not 99, Johns 50). SYDNEY, THURSDAY…

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Bowra Races

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 21 March 1902 · page 2

ST. PATRICK'S DAY is generally observed as one of the chief holidays of the year in Bowra and Monday last was no exception to the rule. The race meeting on the old Bowra…

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Ladies and Cricket

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 21 March 1902 · page 8

THe ladies of Cootamundra defeated the "Old Buffers" last week by 157 runs to 125, Miss Selina Lipscombe top scoring with 57. In a lengthy report of the affair the LIBERAL says the…

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SPORTING. The Turf. South Grafton Racing Club

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1902 · page 4

THE seventh meeting of this club was held on Wednesday, the attendance being fair. The racing was good throughout, and punters had a goon time, the favorites getting home…

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Cricket

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 8

The Englishmen defeated South Australia by six wickets, losing four wickets for 196 in the last inning. Gunn scored 21, Quaife 41, Tyldesley 47, Hayward (not out) 33, Jessop 25, Braund (not…

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Cricket Chatter

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 3

AT a meeting of the L. C. Association on Saturday it was decided not to suspend the competition fixtures next Saturday. At the cricket match on Saturday the public…

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Lawn Tennis

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 March 1902 · page 2

TO-DAY a tennis match will be played on the Bellingen Club court between teams representing the local mid Bellinger Heads clubs, the result of which will practically…

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A Judge on Racing

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 2

In summing up in the Brisbane racing libel action, Castles v. the Brisbane Newspaper Company, Mr. Justice Real dealt with racing as a pastime, and made reference to…

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Society at Randwick Races. Easter Week

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 5

The only way to obtain an inclusive impression of Randwick Races would be to view them from a captive balloon, in which case, however, one would lose all the…

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Representative Cricket. Sydney v. GRAFTON

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1902 · page 4

The match between Mr. R. Shute's team of metropolitan cricketers and an 11 selected from the Grafton District Cricket Association was continued on Fisher Park on…

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