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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Sport

Sport, 1875

10 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Local News. Cooma Annual Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1875 · page 2

WE are requested by Mr. Geo. Coben, the hon. secretary of the Manaro Turf Club, to notify that the acceptances for the Jockey Club Handicap, the Shorts…

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Telegrams. the Cricket Match. Cooma V. BOMBALA

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1875 · page 2

THE following telegrams were posted up on Monday evening at the Cooma Cricket Clubroom (Mr.C.W.Crawshaw's prince of Wales Hotel). As each…

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Pine Valley Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1875 · page 2

A DAY'S excellent sport was indulged in at the racecourse near the Pine Valley Hotel on the 5th instant, there being present many visitors from Cooma and…

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Bombala Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 2

HAVING arrived safe and sound at Bombala on Tuesday evening, the 2nd March, I put up at our old friend Horatio's (surnamed Rowley), who really keeps a…

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Bombala. Cricket.—bombala v. DELEGAT

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1875 · page 4

St. PATRICK'S Day saw our cricketers at Delegate, where they had proceeded to play the return match with their Border neighbours. Bombala was the victors by…

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Cricket Match. Bambala V. Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 April 1875 · page 2

THE return match so anxiously looked for by the lovers of cricket in this part of the district came off on Monday last, and the players had as fine a day for…

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The Ladies' Cricket Match at Bendigo

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 April 1875 · page 4

FOR the second time the ladies of Bendigo have dared public-opinion, and, putting aside the dogmas of usage, hare ventured by that portion generally held to be sacred…

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Doet's Corner the Seven Ages of Cricket

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1875 · page 4

All the world's a cricket match, And all the men and children merely players; They have their exits and entrance: And one man in his time plays many part:…

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Sporting—cooma Annual Races. Champagne Stakes for 1876. Mares Produce Stakes,1877

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 2

TO OWNERS OF HORSES.—We have been requested to call the attention of own [?] and br[?]eders of horses to the circumstance that the fees of one sovereign each…

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Goulburn Spring Races. First Day-wednesday, [?] September

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 3

Trial Stakes of 30 [?] with 2 sovereigns each added for [?] for all horace that never won a prize exceeding 50 sovereigns, weight for age; once…

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