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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Sport

Sport, 1876

14 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers

Narraburrah Races

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 2

THESE races rook place on Monday and Tuesday last, 27th and 28th December, and, for bush races. were a very great success. Everything went, off in a very…

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Victoria Racing Club. New Year's Day Meeting

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 4

THE attendance at the races today Saturday, was very numerous indeed, and notwithstanding the late rain the course was in pretty good condition…

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Local Intelligence. Cricket. Grenfell C.C. v. EIGHTEEN

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 2

A MATCH was played on the cricket ground, on New Year's Day, between eleven of the Grenfell C.C and an eighteen, which resulted in a victory on…

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Forbes Annual Races

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1876 · page 2

WE extract the following list of entries for the three principal events to be run at the above Club's annual meeting, on the 8th and 9th March next, from the FORBES…

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Burrangong T.c. Races. First Day

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 2

The above races commenced to-day with a very fair attendance. The racing was good. The new grand stand was very much admired…

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Grenfell Jockey Club Races

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 2

IN arranging our local Club's annual meeting, the stewards and the public generally thought with tho good prizes offered, the date being fixed…

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Burrangong T.c. Races

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 4

THESE races were held on Wednesday and Thursday, 16th and 17th instant, and although tho attendance on either day was not extraordinarily large, the…

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Forbes Annual Races

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1876 · page 2

THIS meeting was held on Wednesday and Thursday, 8th and 9th instant, and passed off very successfully. The weather was very dry and the dust was great;…

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Cricket

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1876 · page 2

As we stated in our last issue, the proposed match, Grenfell v. Forbes, had fallen through from some unexplained cause. Since then we hear that it was a…

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Cricket. Grenfell V. Young

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 2

THIS match was played at Young on Queen's Birthday, and resulted in a victory for the former. From a telegram from the Secretary of our local club, which was posted outside our…

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Cricket in Grenfell

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1876 · page 2

Now that the cricketing season of 1870-7 is close at hand, we cannot do less than refer to the past doings of our local knights of the willow, in the hope that it may stimulate them…

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By Electric Telegraph. Sydney. Thursday. 7.48 P.M. the Cricket Match

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1876 · page 3

The match commenced to-day. The English Eleven, in their first innings, scored 121, the two highest scorers being Charlwood (29) and Emmett (27), Nine of the Sydney…

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Boxing Day

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 2

THE day after that of Christmas, which, from a custom of great antiquity of making presents at this season, termed Christmas boxes, is popularly known as Boxing Day, is the…

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Local Intelligence. Boxing Day

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 2

BUT one short week since we essayed to bring back recollections of its predecessors, and now Christmas of 1876 is a thing of the past, with nought but a few pleasing remembrances…

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