Football
No game was ever yet worth a r[?]p For a rational man to play Into which no danger, no mishap, Could possibly find its way.—A. L. GORDO[?]…
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Largs United Undaunted Cricket Club. First Annual Meeting. (From our Largs Correspondent.)
The first annual meeting of the members of the above club was held in the Largs School of Arts, on 28th ultimo. There was a very fair attendance, and a lively interest manifested itself throughout. The…
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At Newcastle on Saturday the university team beat the Newcastle men by 21 points to nil. At Maitland the Sydney Waratahs had to…
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For the first time for some years the [?]dling tell will be heard on the Redbournary Course this afternoon, and fine [?]eather is all that is now wanted to ensure…
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The second raes meeting of the Northern Hunt Club was held in Singleton yesterday, and with its maiden effort at Wallsend some two years ago deserves to be inscribed in red letters in the annals of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Football.—northumberland V. Waratah (Sydney). (To the Editar of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Allow me, through your columns, to write a few lines with reference to the trip of my club, the Waratah, to Maitland. In the first instance, immediately this morning, on the return of my fellow…
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Old Sam Coetstick's hand has not lost its cunning. Here is his bowling average for the past season (playing for the Maitland Albions):-2192 balls, 87 maidens, 760 runs,…
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JUDGE: Mr A. D. Browne, J.P,; Treasurer, Mr T. F. G. Pockley; Secretary, Mr H.V. Howe; Starter, Mr J. McAlpin ; Handicapper, Mr W. C…
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IN the second test match, England v. Australian the Home News says there was plenty of fun on nil three days for all whose whole soul was not…
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In the return footrace at Botany on Tuesday, between Smith and Malone, 150 yards, the latter conceding four yards, for £100 aside, Malone won easily…
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The spring meeting of the Northern Jockey Club opens at West Maitland to-morrow, and although the excitement occasioned by the gathering is of a very mild character, yet the number of acceptors…
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The team of English cricketers about to visit Australia will be composed as follows: —Shaw, Shrewsbury, Barnes, Flowers, Scotton, Attewell, Briggs, Maurice Read,…
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IN connection with the unfortunate contretemps during the match, Australians v. Players of England, on the Kennington Oval, 1st August, the special…
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It was with many misgivings of a wet day that all why had the welfare of the Spring meeting of the Northern Jockey Club at heart observed the gathering, clouds and lowering sky on Tuesday evening,…
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London, Sept 15.—The cricket match between the smokers and non-smokers, in which the Australians play on both sides, was commenced at Lord's' Ground to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, September 20, 1884. Morthern Jockey Club Races. Second Day
The attendance on the West Maitland racecourse yesterday, the concluding day of the Northern Jookey Club's spring meeting was large, fully two thousand persons being present, and this is considerably more than has paid for admission to any…
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Final racing to-day for the Botany Sheffield Handicap. Bourke, of Maitland, is fancied by a good many…
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The annual general meeting of the members of the local C.C. was held in the temporary hall of the School of Arts last evening. The number present was very…
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During the tour in England of the [?] Australian Eleven, M'Donnell made [?] score six times, Murdoch and Midwinter [?] times each scott four times, Gif[?]en [?]…
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IRISH ladies (says an English paper) must be very good cricketers, or Irish gentlemen must play much below themselves when competing with a sex which…
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