The Boxing Contest. BURNS V. SQUIRES
Burns won the boxing championship in the 13th round. There was nothing exciting in the first round, but in the second Burns showed the beat condition…
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Rugby Football Union
A meeting of the Manning District Branch Rugby Football Union took place at the School of Arts, Taree, on Saturday night Mr. W. Armstrong,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gladstone & Lower Macleay J. C. Races
THE Gladstone and Lower Macleay Jockey Club's postponed meeting on Saturday last attracted a good attendance. The weather was beautiful,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boxing—Burns v Laing Sydney
Burns won in six rounds. In the first round Burns bounced Laing around the ring, with a good deal of give and take, Laing having…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Boxing Championship. BURNS v. LANG
OUR Melbourne correspondent wired on Thursday that Tommy Burns had won the fight with Lang in 6 rounds, The contest, which took place at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Correspondence. Postponement of Races. To the Editor
SIR,—Will you kindly permit me space to reply to "Sportsman's" letter in the argus of 4th inst. I would like to know what grounds his assertions are on, as he has only…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Football
It will be teen by an advertisement that a football match will be played between a team from Manning River and one from the Hastings at Hamilton to-day. This is tie play-off of a tie recently played…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Football WALLAMBA v. WINGHAM
Last Saturday afternoon a representative Wallamba team visited Wingham, and played a match against the Wingham team. The match was the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taree Football Club Ball
The ball promoted in aid of the funds of Tares Football Club was a happy afterthought and successful beyond anticipation. It took place at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A New Racing Club
SOME time ago Mr. E. Murph one of Lismore's most enterprising citizens purchased what is popularly known as the Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cricket in England
Yorkshire, as champion County of the year, has played a drawn game with the Rest of England at Kensington Oval…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Good Day's Cricket I.O.O.F. GLOUCESTER v Hope of Copeland Lodge
The Hope of Copeland Lodge having decided to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Order in this State by holding a ball in the School of Arts at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Football MANNING V. MACLEAY
The team of Macleay footballers to play the Manning in the inter-district competition for the nearer North Coast rivers, arrived in Taree from…
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The Australian Rugby Union team defeated Devonshire by 24 points to 3. Burge, the N.S.W. forward, sustained a fractured log…
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A MEETING of the Half-holiday Cricket Club was held at Condon's Hotel on Tuesday night, when there was a fair attendance. The balance-sheet of the past season showed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lawn Tennis
A CORRESPONDENT writes :—Teams representing Rawdon Island and Wanchope met on the latter's court last Saturday, when notwithstanding the fact the island players had celebrated their annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tennis Lawn
Only to those who have tried it are the difficulties of attaining a smooth, well-kept tennis-lawn fully known. Every inch of the ground has to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Football Story
Covered with mud, his clothes and his face bleeding, the wretched man fled before a crowd of people. An old carter who was driving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Came of Football Football and the British Empire
There is hardly a place mentionable on the face of the globe where, the ubiquitous Britisher penetrates but you'll now find the glorious, manly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cricket. FIXTURES
A meeting of representatives of the various cricket clubs on the Upper Manning met at Wingham on Thursday evening, for the purpose of…
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