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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Sport

Sport, 1876

16 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Cooma Cricket Club

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 3

THE annual meeting was held at the Prince of Wales Hotel on the evening of the 30th December; Mr. G. M. Styles, [?]rice-president, in the chair…

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Duke's Springs Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1876 · page 4

THE 88th Anniversary of the colony was celebrated here by horse racing. There was a fair muster of sportsmen with their cracks on the coursing ground, and…

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Cricket in Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 3

ON Monday a match was played between the Cooma Cricket Club and the Seymour and Leeaville combined teams. The Cooma men went first to the wickets;…

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Football

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 3

WE are glad in [?] that [?] to become a favorite [?] Our readers will remember the last year's club was formed at the close of the[?]…

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Football. Cooma V. Snowy River

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1876 · page 3

PERHAPS the first contest between footballers on manaro took place on the cricket ground, near Bombala-street, Cooma, on Saturday last. Though the…

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Football

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 3

A SCRATCH MATCH took place in the presence of many ladies and a large concourse of visitors at the Cooma Cricket Ground on Tuesday, 1st August. The…

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Football

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1876 · page 3

ON Saturday, 12th instant, a scratch match between two sides composed of members of the Cooma Football Club took place on the Cricket Ground. There…

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Cooma Cricket Club

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1876 · page 3

THERE was a meeting of members at the Club Rooms, Mr. Co[?] Cooma Hotel, on Thursday night. The chairman was Mr. A. W. Brooks, J.P…

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Been to the Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1876 · page 2

[?] night, about half-an-hour before midnight, a very respectable citizen living in [?]-street was heardfeeling all over the front to find the knob…

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Leesville Cricket Club

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1876 · page 4

AT a meeting of the Leesville Cricket Club held on Saturday, the 30th of September— Mr.John McEvoy being in the chair— there was a full attendance of…

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Cooma Cricket Club

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1876 · page 4

At the meeting of members held at the Cooma Hotel, Massic-street, on Tuesday night, Mr. David O'Rourke was in the chair…

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Cooma Annual Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1876 · page 5

MAIDEN PLATE Manaro Jockey Club Handicap Shorn Handicap Hurdle Race Hurdle Race N[?]ry Handicap and Cooma Handicap—Nomination to [?]…

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Interoolon[?] Cricket Match the East Two [?]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1876 · page 5

THE uncertain state in which the game stood at the close of the play a Friday night had the effect of attracting to the Albert Ground, Sydney, on Saturday…

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Cricket in Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 3

THE match between the Cooma and Royal cricketers was [?] Saturday afternoon. It was very hot, but there was a fair [?]…

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Bunyan Boxing Day Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 5

T[?] 26th of December was a most [?] day for holding the annual races of the [?]the road [?]…

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[?]Edzerick. T[?] Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 3

27TH DECEMBER, 1876.—The sports [?] Boxing Day drew a large number of sporting man to the [?] Hotel. The following are the names of the officials…

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