Athletic Sports
The athletic sports which took place on the Geeen on New Year's Day were so successful that in all probability similar events will follow annually in future. The attendance numbered not less than…
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Inter-university Cricket Match. Melbourne
The University cricket match was resumed tiffs morning, The weather is very hot, and scarcely anybody on the ground. As was expected when the stumps…
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The most successful regatta that has yet taken place on the Illawarra Lake came off on Anniversary Day. The morning, though threatening in regard to rain, developed into as fine a day as could…
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A MATCH—or at any rate a game—was played on Saturday last between the Kiama and Jamberoo clubs. The scene of the contest was, as usual in Kiama, the not…
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A MATCH with somewhat unexpected results way played at Kiama on Saturday last,—the parties being the Kiama and Geringong clubs. In this contest the Gerringong men…
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A WELL-PLAYED and exciting match took place on the Kiama Cricket ground on Saturday last. This was the return game with reference to that which…
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THESE races came off on the Woodstock course yesterday (St. Patrick's Day), and though the attendance was not so large as might have been expected, the meeting on…
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The annual St. Patrick's race meeting took place on the Wollongong course, yesterday, and passed off most satisfactorily. The day was beautifully fine, and the attendance consequently very large…
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A MATCH characterised by rather remarkable changes of fortune, and watched consequently with much interest by a considerable number of persons who were present,…
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A match between the Illawarra Club and a New town team came off on the race course on Monday, and resulted in the defeat of the local team, which was not be strong as it should have been, probably…
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THE annual meeting of the Shellharbour Turf Club was hold on Mr. Reddall's Peterborough Course on Easter Monday, and cannot but be described as the boat and…
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THERE is in their disposition a cheeerful and courageous patience, nurtured in the midst of national tribulations, a willingness to submit the unruly will to the dictates of…
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Edward Hanlan, the champion sculler, is arranging a grand national regatta at Toronto, in which he will probably take part himself…
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The cricket match between the Oxford and Cambridge Universities was concluded to-day, and resulted in a victory to the former by 135 runs…
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In the Cambridge University, vacation cricket match, Roe made the extraordinary score of 415, not out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kiama Cricket Club. (Communicated.)
THE annual meeting of the Kiama Cricket Club took place in the Council. Chamber on Monday evening, 19th instant, Mr. H. Whittingham in the chair. The following…
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Some curious facts concerning the connexion between religious belief and swimming lessons are given by the "New York Times", from statistics complied by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wollongong Races
These races commenced on Wednesday and were concluded yesterday, and in, many respects were the most successful that have yet taken place in Illawarra. The field of horses was the largest…
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A MATCH, which may be said to have opened the cricketing season so far as Kiama is concerned, was played on Wednesday between the Kiama and Jerrara…
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In the course of a lecture recently delivered in the School of Arts, Sydney, Professor Denton commenced by showing that although "the proper study of…
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