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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1887

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Goulburn Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 August 1887 · page 4

THE meeting of this club was brought to a conclusion on Saturday. Delightful weather prevailed, and partly owing to this and partly to the trotting contest, in which great interest was…

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Football. New South Wales v. QUEENSLAND

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 23 August 1887 · page 3

A match was played at Brisbane on Friday, under Rugby rules, between teams representing these colonies. It attracted a large attendance, and much interest…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 25 August 1887 · page 3

Two hundred and fifty-one runners have accepted for the Sir Joseph Banks12th Grand Handicap, of 300 sovs., to be run on August 30 and succeeding days. W. Clarke, of Melbourne; A. Trinder, of…

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The Canterbury Park Races. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 26 August 1887 · page 2

FLYING HANDICAP.-- African, 1; Toronto, 2; Favo, 3. TWO YEAR OLD GIFT.-- Lady in Waiting, 1; Prarie Rose, 2…

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Canterbury Park Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 3

FINE temperate weather was instrumental in attracting a satisfactory attendance to Canterbury Park on Thursday, when some excellent racing was witnessed…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 30 August 1887 · page 2

GOULBURN COURSING CLUB.—The committee of the above club have decided on holding a coursing meeting on the 17th September. The programme will include four sapling stakes—two at 30/- each…

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Goulburn Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1887 · page 4

THE next meeting of the Goulburn Coursing Club, and the final one of the season, will be held on the 17th September. There will be two eight-dog stakes for dogs that have never won…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 30 August 1887 · page 2

The return match, Rugby Union of Queensland v. New South Wales, was played at Brisbane on Saturday, in the presence of an immense crowd, and resulted in a win for the visitors by four points…

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Tattersall's Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1887 · page 4

THE August race meeting of Tattersall's Club was successfully held at Randwick on Saturday. Five events were told of on the card, commencing with the Hurdle Race, for which 12 sported…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 1 September 1887 · page 3

GOULBURN CRICKET CLUB.—The annual meeting of the Goulburn Cricket Club will be held at the Commercial Hotel this evening at half-past seven. It is to be hoped there will be a full attendance of…

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Goulburn Cricket Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 September 1887 · page 2

THE annual mooting of the above club will be held at the Commercial Hotel this evening at half-past seven. Intending members are requested to attend. The Goulburn Club will be…

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Football

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 2 September 1887 · page 2

ON Saturday last a match was played at Crookwell between teams representing the Wheeo and Crookwell clubs. The weather being unfavourable the attendance was…

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Coursing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 September 1887 · page 3
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AT the Moonee Valley coursing meeting on Thursday Brummy was runner-up for the Empress Trophy, the winner being Fernside (late Sweetbread). Bruno occupied the same…

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Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 September 1887 · page 6
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ON Saturday, 27th August, a match was Played at Crookwell between the Wheeo and Crookwell Football Clubs. The Wheeo team were—Messrs. A. Glennan…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 3 September 1887 · page 4

GOULBURN CRICKET CLUB.—The annual meeting of this club was held at Simons' Commercial Hotel on Thursday evening. Mr. F. Shepherd occupied the chair, and there were also present Messrs. T. F…

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Berrima Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 September 1887 · page 3

THE Berrima District Coursing Club concluded their meeting at Eridge Park on Saturday. The weather was bitterly cold, rain and hail falling at intervals. The Kent Brewery Stakes was won…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 8 September 1887 · page 3

The Times says that the coursing meeting at Queanbeyan on Friday to-morrow) promises to be one of the most interesting of its kind hold in the southern districts during…

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The Late Football Match. to the Editor

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 3

SIR,--Noticing in the Gunning Times a letter from Footballer reporting the football match which was played at Crookwell on 27th inst, between the Crookwell and…

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