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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Sport

Sport, 1884

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

Peck's Bad Boy. The Boy and his Chum have a Boxing Match and his Pa and the Minister take a

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1884 · page 4

HAND—His Pa knocked out. "Say, mister," said the bad boy to the grocery man, as he came in burying his face in a California pear, "it is mighty kind of you to give…

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A Lesson in Boxing. Knocked Out of Time by the Great Ttnknown

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 3

Jimmtson is very proud of hia muscle, and yos-torday he took the now boarder from St. Louis to the gymnasium to Bhow him something about the manly art…

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Cricket a Hundred and Ten Years Ago

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 4

As everyone knows (writes Mr. Andrew Lang in the current number of the English Illustrated Magazine), the third stump was added about 1775 , because it was observed that the…

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Athletic Sports

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1884 · page 2

THE above took place last Monday, on the Grenfell recreation reserve, and were well attended. A liberal bill of fare was provided, attracting large fiel is of competitors ;…

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