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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1887

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Athletic Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting, convened by the promoters of the late sports with the object of handing over the surplus derived therefrom towards the formation of an Amateur Athletic Club in this…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 3

PROPOSED AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB.—A meeting was held in the mechanics' institute on Tuesday evening for the purpose of forming an Amatour Athletic Club in Goulburn. About thirty persona…

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Goulburn Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 2

AT a meeting of the committee last night a suggestion was made, which will probably be noted upon, that the opening meeting of the club he held on Easter Monday. The report…

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International Cricket Match. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 2

THE international match between New South Wales and Shaw's English Eleven commenced to-day, the former going first to the wickets. At 4 o'clock two wickets had fallen for 27…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 2

THE Goulburn and Towrang clubs played a match on the Olympia Ground on Saturday last. The Towrang men, who wore assisted by Doneghue and Nesbitt, went in first and put…

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Burrowa Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 4

THE Burrows Jockey Club Annual Races took place on Thursday and Friday. Heavy rain fell on the evening previous to both days, and there was no sunshine till the afternoon. There was a…

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Murrumbateman Picnic Races

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 2

ON last Saturday week (12th inst.) the above popular annual races came off on Mr. W. McClung's pretty racecourse, in the presence of between four and five hundred persons. The Yass Plains…

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International Cricket Match

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 2

THE final match between New South Wales and the English Eleven commenced on Friday last. The toss for choice of innings was won by Shrewsbury from Macdonnell, and the English…

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Cricket Match. New South Wales V. All England. Sydney, Saturday, Feb. 19

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 2

In the cricket match, New South Wales v. All England Eleven, the former are all out for 141. The Englishmen in their first innings are all out for 99, and New South Wales in…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 2

CARRINGTON GROUNDS ELECTRIC-LIGHT HANDICAP.—The final events in connection with the first Carrington Electric-Light Handicap were decided on Saturday night last on the Carrington Grounds,…

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Coursing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1887 · page 2

MR. H. E. LORD, a gentleman who has done perhaps more than any other to keep coursing and pigeon shooting alive in the colony, and several others paid a visit to the Rosehill…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 24 February 1887 · page 3
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GOULBURN CLUB V. THE TEACHERS' CLUB.—The third match between these two clubs will be played on the Olympic ground on Saturday afternoon next. As each of the clubs has gained a match some…

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Gunning Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1887 · page 4

THERE not being a sufficient number of entries for the principal events to be run at the annual meeting of the Gunning Jockey Club on March 10, the time for receiving nominations…

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Amateur Athletics

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1887 · page 2

IN connection with the recently instituted Athletic and Gymnastic Club a public meeting will be held this evening in the committee room of the Mechanics' Institute at 8 sharp, for the…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 24 February 1887 · page 3

GOULBURN OLYMPIC GROUND COMPANY.—The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Olympic Ground Company will be hold in the mechanics' institute on Thursday, 3rd March. We notice that…

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Laggan Races

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 February 1887 · page 2

RACES took place at Clancy's Hotel, Laggan, on the 17th instant. The weather was very unfavourable for the meeting, rain having falling heavily…

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Trunkey Creek Races

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 February 1887 · page 2

THE programme of the Trunkey Crook Race Club annual meeting appears in advertising columns. There are no less than seven events, and a good day's sport…

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Proposed Athletic Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 2

THE adjourned public mooting, called for the purpose of considering the rules drawn up by a committee appointed at a meeting last week for the guidance of the proposed Goulburn Amateur…

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Goulburn Coursing Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1887 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Coursing Club was held at the Royal Hotel last evening, about a dozen members putting in an appearance. Mr. D. D. Moon was voted to the chair,…

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