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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1891

434 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 13 of 22

Football. Pioneers V. Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 July 1891 · page 2

THE above teams met on Saturday in Ball's paddock, and the game resulted in on easy win for the Pioneers by 18 points to nil. The play, however, was not so one-sided as might be…

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Scene at a Football Match

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 July 1891 · page 2

PERTH, Monday.—A disgraceful occurrence had taken place in connection with a football match between teams representing The Rovers and Fremantle clubs. Mr. Croft, the umpire,…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 July 1891 · page 3

VICTORIAN WATERLOO CUP. — Victorian Waterloo Cup Meeting was continued at Digger's Rest on Monday last. The weather was fine and some good trials took place, The…

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Athletics

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 July 1891 · page 3

GLOVE CONTEST FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF AUSTRALIA.—A glove contest took place in Melbourne on Monday between Goddard, the "Barrier champion," and the championship of…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 4

THE opening meeting of the Rooty Hill Coursing Club commenced on Messrs. Lamb's Woodstock Estate yesterday. Mr. W. Cooper acted as judge, and Mr. L. Lamb no slipper…

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Coursing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 July 1891 · page 3

The Rooty Hill and Plumpton District Coursing Club commenced its opening meeting on Thursday at Woodstock. The only Goulburn dog engaged is Mr. H. Everingham's La Tosca,…

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Bronti Cricket Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 July 1891 · page 3

MR. GEO. McCONNELL, secretary of the Bronti Cricket Club, has written to us, explaining that the meetings of the club have not been sufficiently well attended to allow of business being…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 July 1891 · page 2

ROOTY HILL COURSING CLUB.—The opening meeting of the Rooty Hill coursing club was continued and concluded on Friday last at Woodstock. The weather was fine, but the…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 July 1891 · page 2

PIONEERS v. COLLECTOR.—This match took place on Saturday on the Pioneer ground and was regarded as the most exciting and evenly contested game of the season. Victory fell to…

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Boxing and Prize-fighting

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 July 1891 · page 4

OVER the whole English-speaking world—in London, throughout the chief cities in the United States, in the principal centres of population in…

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Coursing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 July 1891 · page 2

AT a meeting of the Yass Coursing Club, held at the Royal Hotel last Friday evening, matters connected with the meeting to take place on Friday, the 7th August, were discussed. A…

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Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 July 1891 · page 2

THE Pioneer Club met their old rivals, the Collector Club, on the Pioneer ground on Saturday afternoon. Notwithstanding the wet weather, there was an attendance of about 600…

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Coursing

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 July 1891 · page 2

COOTAMUNDRA COURSING CLUB.—The second meeting of the season of the Cootsmundra Coursing Club commenced yesterday. The weather was cold and break and the ground…

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The Boxing Championship of England. LONDON, July 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 July 1891 · page 4

A fight took place last night between F. Pritchard and J. Smith for £1000 and the championship of England. Pritchard easily defeated Smith in three rounds, the fight only…

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Lord Sheffield's Cricket Team. LONDON, July 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 July 1891 · page 2

Lord Sheffield has completed arrangements with Abel and Bean to join his team of English cricketers for the Australian tour…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 July 1891 · page 4

PIONEERS V. WALLAROOS.—A match will be played to-morrow between teams representing the above clubs. In two previous contests this season the Pioneers were victorious; the…

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Cricket of the Future. Prospects of the Game in Australia

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 July 1891 · page 6

THERE is more cricket played to-day than has ever been played since the game began, and the number of good players is increasing yearly. England,…

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Athletics and Society

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 July 1891 · page 3

ALL those whose mission in life it is to entertain their fellow-creatures—at an expenditure of cash that is, not of brains nor of tricks—protest that the…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 August 1891 · page 2

PIONEER V. WALLAROOS.—A very stubbornly contested game was played between these teams on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for the Pioneers by a touch (3 points), which…

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Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 August 1891 · page 2

THE Pioneer Club engaged with the Wallaroos on Saturday let on the ground of the former in the presence of between 300 and 400 spectators. As has been the case all the season, the ground…

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