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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1880

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Goulburn Autumn Races

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 4

FOLLOWING are the weights for the two big handicaps to be run in Goulburn on Wednesday and Thursday, the 14th and 15th of the present month :…

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Crookwell Jockey Club Races

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 4

THE following are the weights for the Crook well Jockey, Club Handicap of £30, which is to be run in connection with the above on Monday, the 12th April:…

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BINDA (From our Correspondent.)CRICKET.—BINDA V. FULLERTON

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 10

A MATCH was played between the above clubs at Fullerton on Saturday, 27th March. The morning was anything but an inviting one, and there was every appearance of a…

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Goulburn Autumn Races

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1880 · page 4

THE general entry in connection with the above, which are to come off on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, took place last evening at the Royal Hotel, the result being…

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Crookwell Jockey Club Races

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 April 1880 · page 1

THE programme of races advertised to take place at Crookwell on Monday next is unquestionably the most attractive which has yet been presented by the Jockey Club there,…

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Cricket

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1880 · page 2

A MATCH will be played to-day at Garroorigang between the first eleven of the Goulburn Cricket Club and representatives from Wheeo, Laggan, Taralga, and other townships to the north and east…

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Goulburn Autumn Races

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 April 1880 · page 3

THE above races have been arranged to come off on the course in Brookes paddock next Tuesday and Wednesday; and from the number of horses that have been entered for…

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Crookwell Jockey Club Races

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1880 · page 2

Horseowners intending to take part at this meeting must pay up balance of entrance money in Jockey Club Handicap by nine o'clock to-night, which is also night of general entry…

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Telegraphic Intelligence Forbes Jockey Club Races

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 April 1880 · page 2

The Forbes annual races commenced yesterday. The attendance was between seven and eight hundred. The fields of horses were not very large…

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Crookwell Jockey Club Races

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1880 · page 4

THESE races came off yesterday over the Crookwell curse, and proved to be fully equal in every respect to any of their predecessors. The weather was dull, with signs of rain hanging about; but…

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Wheeo Mb District Against Goulburn Cricket Club

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1880 · page 3

A MATCH at cricket between the above came off at Garroorigang on Saturday. The day was rather cold; but the playing ground was in good order. The days too are now so…

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Cricket

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1880 · page 2

THE return match Goulburn v. county of Argyle will be played on Saturday next. A close contest is anticipated, the county bringing a very strong team. We hear of a celebrated Sydney amateur as…

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Telegraphic Intelligence (Through Greville’s Telegram Company.) Goulburn Races. First Day—tuesday

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 April 1880 · page 2

Trial Handicap.— Croydon, 1; Anandale, 2; Homer, 3. Hack Race.—The Dence, 1; Secret, 2. Autumn Handicap.—Arrogant, J; Jester,…

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Goulburn Autumn Races. First Day—tuesday, April 13

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1880 · page 2

THESE races commenced on Tuesday. The course was in tolerably good order, although there were one or two rather bad places. The weather being very threatening, the…

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Football

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 2

A MEETING of those interested in the formation of a football club was held in the Salutation Hotel on Thursday night. There was a fair attendance, and Mr. W. C. Nash occupied the chair. It was resolved…

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Goulburn Cricket Club

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 19 April 1880 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Cricket Club was hold In Dickson's Hotel on Saturday night. There was a good attendance of members, Mr. A. Mackellar occupying the chair…

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Cricket

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 April 1880 · page 3

A MATCH was played at the Garroorigang ground on Saturday between eleven of the county and 1st eleven of the Goulburn Cricket Club. The day was remarkably warm in the…

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Yass Racing Club

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 April 1880 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon a meeting of the committee of the Yass Racing Club was held in the club-room, Salutation Inn, Yass. Those present were Mr. H. J. Sampson (in the chair), and…

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A Little About Cricket. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 4

SIR,—Though here in the antipodes football is now beginning its reign, in the mother country cricket is but just commencing; all the public schools hard at practice, and at…

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Football

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 April 1880 · page 3

IN order to effect a commencement of the football season the committee of the recently-formed football club arranged that the opening match should take place this afternoon in Brooks's paddock, the…

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