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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1875

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Football.—safe Play V. Dangerous Mauling. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 3

SIR,—As you so kindly premised to insert at my desire a paragraph on Football clipped from the Melbourne Ago, you would confer a further favour by publishing these few line in another column,…

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Goulburn Football Club Athletic Sports

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 June 1875 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon last the members of the Goulburn Football Club assembled at the Victoria Recreation Ground to carry out a programme of athletic sports which had been inaugurated by the…

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Goulburn Foot-ball Club Athletic Sports

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon an programme of athletic sports was gone through on the Victoria Recreation ground under the auspices of the Goulburn Foot-ball Club, admittance being by invitation…

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Football:— Balmain Vv Goulburn. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1875 · page 2

SIR,—I perceive by advertisement that it is intended to charge one shilling admittance to the recreation ground on Saturday evening next, when the above match is to be flayed. The charge is…

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Football.—goulburn V. Balmain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1875 · page 2

THE first match of the present season in which our local club contended on their own ground with a Sydney team took place at the Victoria Recreation Ground on Saturday afternoon last, the…

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Football. Balmain v. Goulburn (First Fifteens)

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 August 1875 · page 2

ON Saturday last these two clubs met at the Recreation Ground to try conclusions, and as this is the only Sydney club that has visited Goulburn this season, considerable interest was displayed as to the…

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Select Poetry. Cricket

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 August 1875 · page 4

THE following lines, apropos of the great batsman of the age, are extracted from Bell’s Life in London:— THE MAN WHO ALWAYS SCORES…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. [Through Greville’s Telegram Company] Hawkesbury Races. Sydney, Wednesday. 2.40 p.m

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 2

HAWKESBURY TRIAL Stakes.—Esmeralda ; Little Charlie; Janitor. Guineas.—Valetta; Richmond; Sylvia. Eight started: Time, 1.45…

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Extraordinary Swimming Freak

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1875 · page 2

A REMARKABLE exhibition of natatory power and skill took place in the Thames on July 3, when Captain Webb undertook to perform the unprecedented feat of swimming…

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Goulburn Cricket Club

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1875 · page 3

THE annual meeting of the above club was held at the Commercial Hotel on Thursday evening. The attendance was not large, the weather being inclement. Mr. T.S. Hall was voted to the chair in the…

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Randwick Races. First Day, Saturday, September 4

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 3

SATURDAY was the first day of the spring meeting of the Australian Jockey Club, and as may readily he imagined it was a vastly important event to thousands of our population who are always ready to…

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Goulburn Spring Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1875 · page 2

THE general entry for the forthcoming Spring Races, which are to come off in Goulburn on the 29th and 30th of this month, took place at the Royal Hotel last evening. The various events for…

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Unparalleled Swimming Feat

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 September 1875 · page 4

It will be seen, on reference to the late [?] given in the Herald, that captain Webb, a young English seaman, has performed the unappalled feat of swimming…

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Goulbourn Spring Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 September 1875 · page 1

THESE races will commence in Brooke’s paddock at noon to-morrow (Wednesday), and be continued on the following day ; and judging from the number of “nags” which have been entered and are at…

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Local and General. Yass Racing Club

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 September 1875 · page 2

A WELL attended meeting of members of the Yass Racing Club was held at the Royal Hotel, Yass, last Friday evening, Mr. J. R, Colls was voted to the chair…

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Goulburn Spring Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1875 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Spring Races commenced yesterday morning under very auspices circumstances. The weather in the morning, and for several days previously, had been exceedingly…

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Goulburn Spring Races

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 4

On last Wednesday morning the eventful day which has been looked forward to in sporting quarters with great interest opened the ball for the spring races. The Produce Stakes this time, on account of the…

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Goulburn Spring Races. Second Day, Thursday, September 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 4

THE attendance was very good and the day line. The largest field at the meeting came to the post for the Town Plato, about which there was a good deal of speculation, Prophet and Gladstone being…

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The Cricket

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 2

AT the corner of my hearth, Where musefully I stir the fire, For ever singing to my lyre, Cricket, join an old man's mirth:…

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Yass Racing Club

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 October 1875 · page 2

A MEETING of members of the above club was held at Hart's Royal Hotel on Friday last. Mr. John Colls, junior, was voted to the chair. Mr. Sampson informed the meeting that Mr…

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