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Murray · Sport

Sport, 1861

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Cricket Match

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 13 November 1861 · page 2

The season for this noble game in Albury may be said to have been inaugurated on Saturday last, by the meeting which came off between the Albury Cricket Club and that of…

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Cricket Match at Albury

The Border Post · Wednesday 13 November 1861 · page 5

The Cricket Match which had been talked of for some time past between the Albury Cricket Club and the Tradesmen’s Club same off on Saturday last, It was considered by…

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The Deniliquin Races. Third Day

The Pastoral Times : incorporated with the Southern Courier · Friday 15 November 1861 · page 2

The concluding day of the races afforded far better sport than was anticipated. The attendance was more numerous; and, perhaps, the only drawback to the enjoyment of the meeting was that the sun…

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Wagga Races

The Border Post · Wednesday 20 November 1861 · page 5

These annual [?] took place on the [?] and following days. Maiden [?] of 40 says; [?] a mile there quarters, was won by Watson’s…

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Wagga. Annual Races, 1861. First Race

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 20 November 1861 · page 3

THE MAIDEN PLATE of 40 sovs., for all horses that have never won an advertised prize, carrying weight for age; one event, one mile and three quarters. Mr. J. H. Watson's be g Brungle, aged, 9st Sib…

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The Rugby Romance

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 23 November 1861 · page 3

An extraordinary story which reads more like a page extracted from the Mysteries of Paris or of London, that an occurrence in what we are usually accustomed to look upon…

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Cricket

The Border Post · Wednesday 27 November 1861 · page 3

The return match between the Albury Crocket Club, and the Tradesmens’ Club, took place on Saturday, on the flat behind the Albury Mill. The players on both…

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Cricket at Beechworth

The Border Post · Saturday 30 November 1861 · page 8

On Thursday afternoon a meeting was held at Fisher’s Commercial Hotel, for the purpose of further considering the ways and means to bring the All England Eleven to play a match at…

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Cricket at Yackandandah

The Border Post · Wednesday 4 December 1861 · page 8

On Saturday the return match was played Between the Beechworth and Yackandandah clubs on the ground of the latter. The day was [?] unfavourable, the weather the previous…

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The Great Cricket Match

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 December 1861 · page 4

It is now finally arranged that the first grand international match shall take place on the 1st of January next. On 26th December and the two following days, arrangements…

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Yackandandah Races. Quis prime metam tinget? To the Editors

The Border Post · Saturday 7 December 1861 · page 8

SIRS,— “Your own.” I cannot feel myself justified in calling the gentleman “our own” seems to be perfectly at liberty to criticise the people of Yackandandah. Will you allow me…

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Cricket

The Border Post · Wednesday 11 December 1861 · page 8

We are not agreed with many who imagine that, because Victoria has been successful on the majority of occasions on which she has played against the sister colony of New South…

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Cricket

The Border Post · Wednesday 18 December 1861 · page 8

As every thing connected with the doings of the “Elevens” possesses peculiar interest just now. we append the following statement of the matches played at home between England’s…

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Cricket

The Border Post · Saturday 21 December 1861 · page 8

On Wednesday last, on the Chiltern ground the second of a series of trial matches was played. The [?] teams was well represented by Messrs, Batchelor, Daniel, Rath and…

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Cricket

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 December 1861 · page 2

In a few days Victoria will have to put forward her best men to face the champions of England; and it was a good piece of management on the part of the secretary of…

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A Criticism on Cricket

The Border Post · Saturday 28 December 1861 · page 8

Cricket ! There’s a wholesome English smack about the word which no one but an Englishman, I think, can rightly relish. To my notion of a cricketer ‘nascitur not fit.’ Men…

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