Boxing
It is very probable that arrangements will shortly be made in Sydney for a visit of the American middle- weight champion boxer, Mike Cleary…
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Sport. CRICKET
The following players will represent the Newcastle Cricket Club in the match with the Singleton First Rovers, to be played on Victoria Square to-day:- Messrs B[?]wick…
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1.—Scone 1.—Dungog 1.—Cessnock; entries, morning of races 1.—Warkworth…
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A very interesting at[?] entertainment was held at [?] Gynesium on New Years The leading featre in on prgrammer was the westing match between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Training a Trotting Horse by Swimming
WHILE Mr. Robert Bouner was inspecting John Turner's horses in Philadolphia the General told a curious story of horse training "When I was a boy, and $200 looked as big…
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Newten says that is it willing to box Foley any where between Melbourne and Sydney but he refuse to go to Sydney, The first deposit will be posted to-day in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket. Albion C. C. v. East Maitland
These two clubs met on Saturday last, for the return match of the season, on the East Maitland ground, when it was expected by the East Mailanders they would br able to turn the tables on…
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Referring to Evans's fine bowling in the Intercolonial Cricket Match at Melbourne, "Felix," in the Australasian says:- "He bowled with well-sustained energy and…
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58 competitors have accepted for the Sheffield Handicap to come off in Newcastle on the 14th and 16th January. Nothing has come out of the proposed…
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E.B. Rawlinson, the well-known Yorkshire professional, who has arrived in Australia, said that W. G. Grace still holds the honors as the first cricketer in England…
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26.—Clarence Town; entries, 21st; handicaps, 23rd. 26.—Lochinvar. February. 11, 13.—Newcastle; entries, Jan. 21…
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A billiard tournament for a valuable diamond pin is to be commenced at Main's Hotel, Maitland, in a few days. Malone, on his last trip to Victoria, won…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket. Albion C. C. V. East Maitland
This match was brought to a conclusion on Saturday last, and terminated, as we predicted, in an easy win for the Albions. The East Maitland players, having 7 wickets down for 43 runs, resumed…
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Some short time ago the Sydney Daily Telegraph invited cricketers of Sydney to furnish them with lists of men whom they considered should form the eleven to play…
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A Sheffield Handicap of 100 guiness will be run at Wollongong on Easter Monday, under the auspices of the Lodge of Oddfellows, M.U…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket. Morpeth C.C. v. Phœnix Park C.C.
The long-looked-for meeting between the Phœnix Park C.C. and the Morpeth C.C. commenced on the ground of the former on the 9th instant, and terminated on Saturday last, in favour of the Morpeth…
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Following are the entries for the race meeting of the Newcastle Jockey Club to be held on February 11 and 13. Splendid fields are nominated, and the gathering should be one of the most successful ever…
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As an instance of the interest that is being taken in the forthcoming intercolonial Cricket Match, it may be stated that the booths on the outer ground realised five times…
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The sporting editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph writes thus respecting the recent Sheffield Handicap run at Newcastle:— "Many sporting men who have returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Cricket.—ph[?]enix Park V. MORPETH. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR—With reference to the report of the above match in your issue of Thursday last, your correspondent makes out that the Park played to the; letter of the law. This I deny. First, because the…
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