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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Sport

Sport, 1899

191 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 6 of 10

Football Notes

Western Champion · Friday 23 June 1899 · page 7

The Forbes Club met the Waratahs on our local cricket ground on Saturday last, (says the Forbes "Gazette") in the first match of the Western…

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A Football Story

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 5

A football captain who resides near Narandera could not raise a team to go to Junee, so he wired to that effect to the secretary of the opposing team…

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The Football Team

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 8

To have a clergyman at the head of a touring football team is rather a novelty. Mr. Mullineaux is also a man of the world and a gentleman ; he…

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Cricket

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 3

THE very decisive win of the Australians in the Derbyshire match has set the Colonials wondering which the Home players are to come out of their shells, or whether they…

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Condobolin Tennis Club's Tournament

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 8

Gentlemen's Single Handicap:--J. R. Scott beat J. B. Gore, 6--3,. 6--1 final round--J. R. Scott beat W. J. Job, 6--2, 6 --2. A mixed double handicap tournament…

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Sunday Football

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1899 · page 2

A JOINT-MEETING of the West Wyalong and Central Wyalong Rugby Football Clubs was held at Welby's Metropolitan Hotel on Monday evening for the purpose…

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Cricket

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 2

IN the cricket match, Australians v. Notts, the [?] made 188 in their first issuing and closed their second for 132 for the loss of 6 wickets. The Australians…

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Football Flashes

Western Champion · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 7

A football match between the Waratahs (Parkes), and the Forbes football team, was played in the People's Park on Saturday, afternoon…

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Lawn Tennis

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 7

A match was played on Wednesday afternoon on the local court between the Town and Superior Public School Clubs, resulting in an easy win for the Town…

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Boxing Contest

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 3

THE boxing contest between Jack Hoggin, of West Wyalong, and Jack Conlon, of Sydney, has been postponed to the 20th inst. Partied are as to prices,…

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Cricket

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 2

THE Australians have once more asserted their superiority by beating in a very decisive fashion at Truro an eleven of All-England. In all the recent matches the…

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The Great Boxing Contest

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 3

BEFORE our next issue appears the boxing contest between Jack Goggin, of West Wyalong, and Jack Conlon, of Sydney will be over. It is likely to prove one of the…

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Sunday Football

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 2

THOUGH the courtesy of Messrs. Coonan and Griffith, the solicitor for the defence in the late prosecutions for playing on Sunday, we have received the following…

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Condobolin Races

Western Champion · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 13

The following entries have been received for the principal events to be run at the Condobolin Amateur Race Meeting on 28th July:—…

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Show Cycle Races. League Race, 10 Laps

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 7

J. Watson, Chas. Bowkett, Chas. Phillips, S. Brown, A. Suteliffe, A. Munroe, P. Boulton, Jas. Muir, T. Tasker, Jas. Scott, Frank Weston,…

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The Great Boxing Contest. JACk GOGGIN v. Jack Conlon for a Purse of £250

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 2

THIS event had been eagerly looked forward to for some time, not only by local residents, but by admires of boxing throughout Australia, and…

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Sunday Football

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 4

ALL kinds of games, from cricket down to cockfights have been played in and around Sydney on Sundays, but it remained for the pious people…

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Football

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1899 · page 2

At Newcastle yesterday the English footballers easily defeated the Northern union by 28 points to nil. Adamson kicked five success goals…

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Lawn Tennis

Western Champion · Friday 28 July 1899 · page 10

The Half-Holiday Association Tennis Club's courts, at the corner of Clarinda and Victoria Streets, were officially opened on Wednesday after…

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"Test" Cricket

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 4

THE latest of the Anglo-Australian cricket matches which are exciting such keen interest in England and Australia, has been left unfinished, under conditions strongly tending to…

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