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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1898

584 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 30

The Mullion Picnic Races

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 2

SATURDAY last, 26th inst. was a day long and anxiously looked forward to, being the day appointed for the holding of the Mullion Races, a now established annual event,…

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Swimming

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 2

THE Goulburn Public Schools' Swimming Club held their first competition at the Public Baths on Friday afternoon. A half-holiday had been granted for the occasion and the gallery was thronged with…

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Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 2

The annual meeting of the town and country teams will take place at Easter, the match starting at 2 o'clock on Good Friday and being continued at 10.30 on Saturday. The town team will be chosen…

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Football Union

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 2

The committee of the football union has received an offer from the Our Boys Club, Orange, to play a match about the middle of May. The visitors will be guaranteed £7 10s, and should the gate be a good…

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Goulburn Races. First Day—thursday, 31St March

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 4

SOME kind of ill fortune seems to hang over the Gundary racecourse. It is difficult at any time to work up enthusiasm in Goulburn over a race meeting, but, apart from this, those responsible for…

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Lake Bathurst and Tarago Cricket. (To the Editor E. P. Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 6

DEAR SIR,—I was very pleased to see in a recent issue of your paper some strong remarks against the action of some of the Tarago players for expressing their disapproval of the local umpire's…

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Swimming

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 2

THE club connected with the public schools now numbers 220 boys and 140 girls. On Friday afternoon their first matches were held at the corporation baths, when the races…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 2

FEDERA; (LAST ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE) CLUB.—A well-attended meeting of the members of the above club was held in the Academy of Music on Saturday evening, Mr. A. D. Ness…

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Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the town and country teams will take place at Easter, the match starting at two on Good Friday and being continued at 10.30 on Saturday. The town…

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Binda Annual Races

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 2

THE entries, together with the handicaps allotted, for the principal two events (the Binda J.C. Handicap and Ladies' Purse) to be run on Easter…

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Cricket. Senior Competition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 4

SATURDAY saw the end of the season's competition. The question of supremacy lay in the result of the match, Ambulance v. United; but, as the latter were unable to muster a sufficient number to be in…

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Cricket. Crookwell V. Pejar

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 2

THE above clubs met at Pejar on Saturday, the game resulting in a draw greatly in favour of Pejar. Crookwell was very poorly represented,…

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CRICKET.--YASS v. WARROO

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 2

AFTER hard struggling the Yass cricketers managed to get a team to travel to Warroo to play a return match. Mr. Morris started away with a "formidable" team, the betting…

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Swimming

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 3

IN Farmer's Baths, Woolloomooloo Bay, on Saturday, the League of Swimmers held its quarter of a mile championship race. A. Cavill led from the start and won by three…

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Football

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 3

THE committee of the Central Southern Rugby Football Union met last evening, Mr. J. J. Richardson, president, in the chair. Mr. E. B. Biddulph, who was elected a…

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Sporting. Cricket

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 3

KIALLA C.C. v. MOUNT WAYE C.C.—The above teams tried conclusions on Saturday last on Kialla wicket, when the local team won on the first innings with ridiculous cats with…

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Football Union

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 April 1898 · page 4

THE committee of the C. S. R. Football Union met on Tuesday evening at the Oddfellows' Hall, Mr. J. J. Richardson, president, being in the chair. Mr. Biddulph, who had been elected a…

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Cricket

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 2
Also in Crookwell Gazette

THE Half-holiday team will journey to Bowning to-day (Good Friday), to try conclusions with the club there. The Half-holiday eleven will be selected from the following:--Gately,…

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Sporting. Football

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 2

JUNIOR COMPETITION.—Only three junior teams entered for the union competition, and the committee have consequently extended the time for receiving entries till 18th instant,…

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