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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1887

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 4

Hutchens, the English champion sprinter, and C. E. Merchant, the winner of the recent Carrington Handicap, are to run a 50-yards race at Parramatta on January 8…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 2
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A MATCH was played at Eastgrove on Saturday between the first cloven of the Oriental Club and nineteen of the Young Australian Club. The Orientals put together 181—Dennis making 68…

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Cricket. Yass Alberts V. Gunning C.c

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the Alberts suffered an easy defeat from the wielders of the willow that were brought against them on the oval from Book ham on Boxing day, they did not become…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 3

FOOTRACE.—A match between H. Nixon and O. Pursehouse was decided at Eastgrove on New Year's Day. The distance was 100 yards, and the stakes 10 a-side. Not much side-money was speculated on…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 6 January 1887 · page 2

A match hats been arranged between Shaw's English eleven and the Australian eleven, to take place on the Association Cricket Ground, Sydney, on Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday next…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 6 January 1887 · page 2

HIGHLAND SPORTS.—At the Highland gathering on the association ground, Sydney, on New Year's Day, Constable C. Mc Hardy of Goulburn won the following events:—Putting the shot, £2 2/;…

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Aquatics. Lake Bathurst Regatta

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 4

THE annual regatta in connection with the Lake Bathurst Rowing Club will take place on the lake on Friday next. Every detail in connection with the successful carrying out of the regatta has…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1887 · page 2

THE first elevens of the Goulburn and Oriental Clubs will meet again on Saturday afternoon next at East grove. The Oriental team have allowed the Goulburn men to practice on their…

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Lake Bathurst Regatta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 January 1887 · page 4

THOSE of aquatic tastes are reminded of the above regatta, which takes place to-morrow. There is no reason why Lake Bathurst should not annually be the scene of interesting…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 13 January 1887 · page 2

GOULBURN CLUB v. ORIENTAL CLUB.—On Saturday next the first elevens of the Goulburn and Oriental clubs will play a match at Eastgrove upon the ground of the Orientals. The second elevens of the…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 13 January 1887 · page 2

THE fifty-yards match at the Woolpack athletic grounds, Parramatta, on Saturday, between the English champion Harry Hutchens, and Merchant, the winner of the Carrington Handicap, was won by…

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Lake Bathurst Regatta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 2

THE second annual regatta of the Lake Bathurst Rowing Club was held yesterday at the lake. The first regatta was marked by a miserable drizzling rain, but the second was favoured by…

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Unseemly Fracas at the Regatta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 2

A DISGRACEFUL squabble occurred at the Lake Bathurst Regatta yesterday which will probably be heard of in the police court. The three winners of the divisions in the Outrigger Race—…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 4

AMATECED ATHLETIC SPORTS.—To provide amusement in Goulburn for Anniversary Day (26th instant) a committee appointed by the various cricked, football, and bicycle clubs in Goulburn has…

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Lake Bathurst Regatta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 January 1887 · page 2

WE have been requested to correct a mistake which occurred in our report of the above in connection with the Double Soulls Race. The second place was there given to Callaghan and…

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Kenmore Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 January 1887 · page 2

THE annual races of the Kenmore Jockey Club will take place on the course at Kenmore on Anniversary Day, January 26. There will be in all five events—the Trial Handicap of £6, one…

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Correspondence. the Yass Cricket Club and the "Tribunes" Captious Corrks Pondent-"a Look Out." To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 January 1887 · page 2

SIR,--The Tribune's correspondent " A Look Out," must have been sadly in need of an ink- slinging subject, when he rushed into print on Thursday last, with his " whys" and his…

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Amateur Athletic Sports

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 January 1887 · page 2

AN excellent programme of athletic sports will be decided at the Olympic ground on the 26th January, including racing, jumping, bicycle racing, and other events. Tile prizes in all cases…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 20 January 1887 · page 2

ATHLETIC SPORTS.—Pedestrians and cyclists are reminded that entries for the Anniversary Handicap, one mile footrace, and three miles bicycle race, to be run on 26th instant, on the Olympic Ground, close…

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