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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1887

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Cricket

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 March 1887 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald

A MATCH was played on the oval, on Saturday, between the Yass C.C. and players from the Yass River and Tangmangaioo. The visitors were picked and captained by Mr. Harry…

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Coursing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1887 · page 2

THE committee of the Coursing Coursing Club held a meeting last night for the purpose of arranging a programme for the first meeting of the season, to be held on April 9 and 11. The…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 3 March 1887 · page 3

THE GOULBURN CLUB.—An eleven of this club wit play a match against eleven of St. Patricks' College on Saturday next, and on the following Saturday an eleven will visit Crookwell to moot an eleven of the…

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Cootamundra Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1887 · page 4

AT the Cootamundra races yesterday Mr. T. McAlister's Thakambau carried off the Ladies' Bracelet. The prize is a very handsome and valuable piece of…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 8 March 1887 · page 2

GOULBURN COURSING CLUB.—The programme for the opening meeting of the Goulburn Coursing Club, to be hold on the 9th and 11th April, will consist of the Southern Stakes for an unlimited number of…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1887 · page 2

A MATCH was played at the Olympic Ground on Saturday afternoon, between the Goulburn and St. Patrick's College Clubs, and resulted in a victory on the first innings for the Goulburn…

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Athletic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1887 · page 2

PERSONS favourable to the carrying out of a plan to combine an athletic club with the Goulburn gymnasium are requested to moot in the committee-room of the Mechanics' Institute this…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 3

ENGLISH ELEVEN v. VICTORIA.—Owing to heavy rain this match was on Monday postponed, but was resumed on Tuesday. At the close of the day's play the score stood:—Englishmen, first innings,…

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Melbourne Races

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 2

THE V.R.C. Autumn Meeting was brought to a close at Flemington on Saturday. The event of the day was the Champion Stakes, 25 sovs. each, with 1000 added;…

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Athletic Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 4

A MEETING was held at the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday night to consider the question of forming an athletic club in connection with the gymnasium. There was a very fair…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 3

ATHLETIC CLUB.—A meeting was held in the committee room of the mechanics' institute on Tuesday evening last for the purpose of taking into consideration a proposal to form an athletic club, to which the…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Herald

IN the second innings of the Victorian match the Englishmen made 119 for the loss of one wicket—Bates 86, Shrewsbury (not out) 29, Barlow (not out) 4. The English Eleven…

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Coursing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 4

MEMBERS of the Coursing Club and others will be glad to hear. that arrangements have boon entered into for a good supply of hares…

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Cricket

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald

A MATCH, was played on the green near Alderman Zoellners,Ion Saturday, between an eleven of the Yass Alberts and eleven of the permanent railway men. The day was' anything…

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Gunning. Annual Races

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 2

The annual meeting in connection with the Gunning jockey Club promised to be one of the most successful that had been held, up to Wednesday night or even Thursday morning,…

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Cricket at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 4

THE first eleven of the Goulburn Club journeyed to Crookwell on Saturday to play a match with the first eleven of the local club; but owing to the rain not more than n hour's…

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A Novel Cricket Match

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 2

A cricket match, in which 11 ladies were pitted against an equal number of gentlemen, was played at Lahore, India, on the 14th January. The ladies played with cricket-bats,…

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