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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1899

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Football

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 5

The English footballers defeated a Maryborough (Q.) team on Wednesday by 27 points to S. To-day, in football parlance, singleton…

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Golf, by Mr. Dooley

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 9

The new American humourist, whose writings take the form of dialogues on public topics between Mr. Hennessy, Mr. Dooley, and Mr. M'Kenna, has a paper on golf in…

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Golf at East Maitland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 14

Saturday afternoon witnessed the opening, in fairly favourable circumstances, of the East Maitland Golf Club links. The game of golf, which is coming into much favour in the colonies, is new to…

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Sporting. Singleton Races

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 2

Following are the results of Thursday's racing:—Opening Handicap.—Nicodemus, 6[?]t 7lb (Gallimore) 1; Nina, 6st 7lb. 2; Antrim, 8st…

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Riot at a Football Match

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 3

During the progress of a football match between Balmain Carlingford and Pioneer in the thrid junior competition at St. Luke's Park, Concord on Saturday a riot short…

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A Riot at a Football Match

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 10

During the progress of a match between Balmain Carlingford and Pioneer in the third junior competition, at St. Luke's Park, Concord, on Saturday, a riot, short, sharp, and decisive, brought the…

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Echoes of Sport. the Calendar Horse Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 2

July 26—Tamworth. Aug.10,12—Northern Jockey Club; entries, July 31 August 30, 31—Narrabri; entries, August 14. PIGEON SHOOTING…

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Swimming in England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 July 1899 · page 3

F. A. Jarvis, of Leicester, has won the Half-mile Swimming Championship in 12 minutes 48[?] seconds, F.C.V. Lane, of Sydney, was second, his time for the distance being 13 minutes 2 seconds…

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Football

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 July 1899 · page 3

The team to represent the Northern District against England has been chosen by the selection committee, as follows:—Full-back, W. Cobb; three-quarters, F. White, H. Gallaghen, R. O'Halloran;…

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Cricket Notes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 July 1899 · page 3

Frank Sugg, the cricketer tells the following story. It occured at the cricket gro[?]nd at Clongowes Wood College, Ireland. The ball was hit into a far corner of this very large ground,…

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Football. the Play

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 July 1899 · page 5

On Saturday, afternoon last a match took place between teams representing a combination selected from Singleton and Scone Football Clubs. The game resulted in the…

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Echoes of Sport. the Calendar Horse Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 July 1899 · page 4

Longy, by Trenton, won his fourth race at Ascot on June 14. He started at 9 to 4 in a field of 10, and won easily from the Carbine filly Dum Dum. A gelding by the New Zealand bred Derringer,…

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Football

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 3
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The Englishmen are playing at Armidale to-day. In Sydney on Saturday,; Randwick beat Sydney by 10 points to 7; Walla[?]…

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Cricket

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 3

The Australian Eleven captain, J. Darling, has won and lost the toss each 11 times. Victor Trumper has made exactly 900 runs for the Australian Eleven. Clem…

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English County Cricket

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 3

In a cricket match between Somerset and Hampshire, the latter team scored 672 for seven wickets. Of this total Major R. M. Poore compiled 304, and Captain E. G. Wynward 225…

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Football. SCONE v. SINGLETON

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 2

THIS match has been looked forward to for the past couple or weeks with a certain amount of interest by local footballers, and every effort was put…

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Echoes of Sport. the Calendar Horse Racing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 4

July 26—Tamworth. July 31—Cessnock. Aug. 10,12— Northern Jockey Club; entries, July 31. August 30, 31—Narrabri; entries, August 14…

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Football. Singeton versus SCONE. The Visitors Entertained

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 4

A large crowd of spectators witnessed the match between Singleton and Scone on Victoria Square on Saturday afternoon last. The play was of a fast and exciting…

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Football. Aberdeen v. Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 July 1899 · page 2

THE third mulch of this season between Aberdeen and Muswellbrook football teams was played on the Show Ground on Saturday last, and resulted,…

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