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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1887

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Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 2

"SIC transit gloria mundi." On Saturday last, at the Olympic, the long-invincible footballers of St. Patrick's College yielded up the sponge to the Goulburn Club for the first time…

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A Broken Leg From Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 2

MR. J. McCREDIE, of the Goulburn branch of the A.M.P. Society, was the victim of a painful accident, which occurred on Saturday last at the football match, Goulburn versus St. Patrick's…

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Liverpool Races.—An Unfortunate Day

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 3

ALTHOUGH the weather was fine on Saturday on the occasion of the much-postponed mooting of the Liverpool Jockey Club, a very keen, cutting wind was blowing, and rendered the…

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Coursing Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 2

THE Goodwood Cup Coursing Meeting commenced on Wednesday at Moonee. Valley. Several dogs known to local coursers competed. In the Goodwood Cup Bridget was defeated by…

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Races at Wayo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 4

Two races will take place at the Wayo Inn, on the Crookwell Road, on Saturday next—the first, for £5 aside, between Mr. McLachlan's b m Busybody and Mr. G. Gray's b m Mislep,…

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News by Cable. Shaw and Shrewsbury's Cricket Team. LONDON, July 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 4

The Sportsman publishes a cablegram from Melbourne, stating that the trustees of the Association Cricket Ground, Sydney, have not guaranteed the matches to be played by Shaw…

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Races at Wayo

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 29 July 1887 · page 2

TO-MORROW two races will take place at the Wayo Ian, on the Crookwell road, immediately after Mr. Oram's stock sales. The first, for £5 aside, will be between…

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Coursing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 4

THE Goodwood Coursing Meeting concluded on Friday. In the Cup Traducer beat Wreeker and Painstaker beat Brummy. The two winners, being similarly owned, then divided. In the…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 4

A cablegram from London dated Wednesday, says: The coming departure of two cricketing teams to Australia—Shrewsbury's and Vernon's—is exciting some interest. Shrewsbury has a letter in the…

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Another Football Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 6

MR. L. Soloman, while playing at football on Saturday last, slipped and broke the small bone of his leg, which will consequently incapacitate him from…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 3

COURSING AT COOTAMUNDRA.—The Cootamundra Coursing Club have made arrangements to hold a coursing meeting on August 10 next. Mr. M. Solomon of the Albion Hotel has very generously…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 3
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GOULBURN v. BOWRAL.—A match took place at Bowral on Saturday between teams from the Goulburn burn and Bowral Clubs. The game was stubbornly contested, and resulted in a draw, neither side…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 3

The cricketing team selected by Alfred Shaw for his Australian tour includes Shrewsbury, Lohmann, Read, Ulyott, Preston, Pogher, Briggs, and Pilling. No amateurs have so far boon selected. Lillywhite…

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Canterbury Park Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 2

FINE weather, a large attendance and good management were the chief characteristics of the bank holiday meeting of the Canterbury Park Race Club which came off on Monday, and…

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Canterbury Park Races. Sydney, Monday. Flying Handicap

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 2

Tilda, 1; African, 2; Kingsgrove, 3 ; 18 started. Time, 1 min. 20½ secs. PRINCE WALES STAKES. Toronto, 1; Le Prix, 2; Lady Yattendon,…

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Vernon's English Cricket Team. LONDON, July 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 4

The team of cricketers organised by Mr. Vernon will sail for Australia in the Orient R.M.S. Iberia…

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Lawn Tennis

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 August 1887 · page 2

MONDAY last, the 1st August, being a bank holiday, all the banks and Government offices were closed. Taking advantage of this, representatives of the Yass and Burrangong lawn tennis clubs…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 3

THE QUEANBEYAN MEETING.—It will no doubt he gratifying to the owners of dogs to learn that the stewards of the Queanbeyan Coursing Club have secured the services of a thoroughly competent…

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Coursing Match at Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 4

A MATCH for £10 a-side, to come off at the Goulburn meeting on the 19th and 20th instant, has been arranged between Messrs. J. Harris's Peeping Tom by Tom King—Prowling Sal, and…

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