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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1885

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Cricket--yass V. Goulburn

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 2

THE second contest between the Goulburr and Yass cricket clubs for the Adams Challenge Cup took place at Garroorigang or Saturday last, the 4th instant, and was com…

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Forbes Jockey Clue Races. Forbes

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 4

The Forbes Jockey Club annual races, advertised to commence on Easter Monday, had to be postponed owing to the wet weather. The first day's racing took place on Tuesday, the weather…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post, Goulburn Evening Penny Post

GOULBURN v. ORIENTAL.—Those clubs intended to commence a match on the ground of the latter this afternoon, but in consequence of the Orientals being unable to get a team together the match has…

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The A.J.C. Races

Southern Argus · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 7

Sydney, April 10.—Two-year-old Plate: Keith 1, Belle Mahone 2, Discord 3. Allaged Stakes: Astroen 1, King's Own 2, A[?] 3. Welter Handicap: Mascotte 1,…

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The Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 2

LAST evening members of the Goulburn coursing club met at the Royal Hotel, when, after discussion it was decided that the opening meet should be held on Friday and Saturday, the 22nd and 23rd of next…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 2

THE Orientals found it impossible to get a representative team to meet Goulburn on Saturday last—Pursehouse, Spillane, Doneghue, Weatherby, Topham, and O'Leary being absent, so that a sort…

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Yass River Cricket Club Athletic Sports

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 2

ON Saturday last the athletic sports arranged by the members of the Yass River Cricket Club were successfully carried out at Elizabethfield. The trysting place was a level piece of land kindly…

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Special Day's Racing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 2

SHOULD we be favoured with fine weather on Wednesday, the complimentary day's racing given by Mr. Harry Payten to the Goulburn Turf Club promises to be one of the best attended and grandest…

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To-morrows' Racing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 2

THIS afternoon, at 4 o'clock, the general entry for the Complimentary Races were to close, and before we went to press we were informed that they were coming forward well; consequently there…

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Complimentary Special Day's Racing

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 2

TO-MORROW (Wednesday) the Goulburn Turf Club will receive at the hands of Mr. Harry Pa[?] complimentary day's sport in aid of the funds of their club; and as every effort has been made on the…

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Randwick Races. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 2

The autumn meeting of the A.J.C. was continued at Randwick to-day, and resulted as follows:-- TWO-YEAR-OLD PLATE…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. (Through Greville’s Telegram Company.) Randwick Races. Sydney

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1885 · page 2

The following is the result of to-day’s racing : ROUSE HANDICAP.—Highland Mary, 1; Broker, 2; Prince Imperial, 3. PLACE HANDICAP.— Moonshee, 1; Tom…

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Goulburn Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 April 1885 · page 2

WE have been shown by Mr. J. J. Roberts a letter which he has received from R. L. Tooth, Esq., patron of the club, who is at present in Rome. In the letter the writer expresses great pleasure at…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 April 1885 · page 4

The Yass Courier says:—On the 25th inst., a match will be played at Yass against an eleven of the Goulburn Club, the result of the match to abide the decision of the Cricket Association as to whether…

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Goulburn Complimentary Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 April 1885 · page 2

THE complimentary day's racing given by Mr. H. Payten came off yesterday on the Turf Club's course at Gundary, although from the rainy state of the weather on Tuesday and the threatenings of a…

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Coursing

Southern Argus · Tuesday 21 April 1885 · page 2

Nominations and entries in connection with the meeting of the New South Wales Coursing Club, to be run at Eridge Park, Bowral, on April 22 and 23, closed on Monday. The events to be decided at the…

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Goulburn Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 April 1885 · page 2

LAST evening a meeting of this club was held at the Club House Hotel, and after discussion the dates for holding the coursing meet were altered from the 22nd and 23rd of May to the 12th and…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 April 1885 · page 4

THE Goulburn and Yass Clubs will meet at Yass on Saturday next to try conclusions for the Adams' Cup. Should the Goulburn Club be victorious they will be the winners of the cup, but if Yass wins,…

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