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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Sport

Sport, 1880

22 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers · page 1 of 2

Cricket

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1880 · page 3

THE return match between Snowy River and Cooma will be played in town on the day before the races. We hear that the Jindabyne men…

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Nimitybelle Annual Races. NIMITYBELLE

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1880 · page 3

The Nimitybelle Races came off according to advertisement yesterday. The morning was very cloudy. At 12 o'clock the rain commenced,…

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Cricket Meeting

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1880 · page 3

ON Saturday evening last a cricket meeting was hold at Mr. Davis's, Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle Inn, for the purpose of taking into…

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Cooma Cricket Club

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1880 · page 3

A MEETING of the Cooma Cricket Club was held on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Walker was in the chair. It was decided to play the return…

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Jindabyne Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1880 · page 3

THE meet on Anniversary Day was very good, there being fair fields of horses and honest sport. There was a fine attendance, and many ladies…

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Cooma Annual Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1880 · page 3

THE weather on the occasion of the annual meeting at Teatree Racecourse, on Wednesday and Thursday last, was dry and dusty. About 500…

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Cooma Cricket Club

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 3

[?] was a very fair attendance of [?] at Mr. Poidevin's Prince of [?] Cooma on Wednesday [?] being in…

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Cricket

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 3

The cricket match to be played on Saturday and Monday promises to be a good one. The Bega team is, we are informed, a strong one, to the "Invincible Mauve"…

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Tumut Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 4

The races commenced on Thursday, 11th March, the weather being fine, and 2000 persons present. The racing throughout was excellent,…

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Prahran Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 3

IN consequence of some of the races falling throughout at the last sports, and Host Gould having the money in hand, he was determined to give another day's sports, which…

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Cricket. COOMA v. Country Auckland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1880 · page 3

THE "Invincible Mauves" have at last suffered a defeat, which may prove a lesson to them, but few of those representing Cooma had the…

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Queen's Birthday Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1880 · page 3

IN accordance with advertisement, which appeared in the local paper, a fair number of persons assembled at Mr. P. Poidevin's Prince of Wales…

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Cricket Match. Good Templars at Tollbar

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1880 · page 3

LAST Saturday, the return match between the Star of the South Lodge (Cooma), and the Star of Friendship Lodge (Tollar Creek) took place on…

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Good Templars' Cricket

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 5 May 1880 · page 2

PURSUANT to arrangement, the Toll-bar Good Templars met the Cooma Good Templars on Saturday last and played a game of cricket. The day…

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Sydney Grammar School Athletic Club

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1880 · page 4

PRESENDENT, Mr. A. B. We[?] committee, Messrs. R. Bowman, J. E. M[?], W. A. Farquhar, W. Amess, C.M[?], G. Martin, and C. H. Francis;…

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The Victorian Association Football Laws

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1880 · page 3

THE following are the Victorian Association Football laws, as adopted by the newly formed New South Wales Football Association:-…

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Prince of Wales Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1880 · page 3

At the meeting held at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Cooma, on Thursday night—Mr.P. Poidovin in the chair—it was proposed by Mr. John I…

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Coma Cricket

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1880 · page 3

LAST Saturday, the B's. played the whole of the Alphabet on the cricketground near Mr. Quigley's in Lambiestreet. Whilsgt the Alphabets had…

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P.W. Birthday Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 3 November 1880 · page 3

It will be seen by the following nominations, which have been court[?]usly handed to us by the popular Peter Poidevin, hon. secretary, that…

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Prince of Wales Races

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1880 · page 3

COOMA sports in honor of the Prince of Wales excited unusual interest among racing men. There were numerous entries, and many horses…

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