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Sport, 1901

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Sporting Notes. Races to Come

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1901 · page 3

V.A.T.C. G.N.Steeple--August 10. Corowa Show Races--August 15. Mulwala--August 21. Murrumbidgee R.C. (Show Meeting)…

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The Granya-tallangatta Football Match. to the Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1901 · page 19

SIR,—In justice to all lovers of fair play, I beg a little of your space to vindicate Granya from the unsportmanlike charges laid against them in the garbled and onesided report of…

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Coursing

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 2

Owners and trainers are- reminded that the third meeting of the Berrigan Coursing Club this season will take pities on Wednesday next, starting point yet to be fixed, when…

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Football

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 19

The following are the dates for the playing of the second round of the O. and M. Association premiership games. The matches are to be played on the ground of the first…

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Corowa Racing Club. Winter Meeting

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 2

THE annual whiter meeting of the above race club took place yesterday, when, in spite of threatening weather, good sport was had by a fair attendance of…

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Sporting Notes. Races to Come

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 4

Mulwala--August 21. Murrumbidges R.C. (Show Meeting)--August 24. Albury R.C.--September 6…

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English Cricket. Tremendous Scoring. London. August 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 19

A most remarkable cricket match between Sussex and Somerset ended on Saturday in a draw. Sussex batted first, and put up a score of 236. Somerset then went in, and…

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Cricket Social. Presentation of Trophie

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 August 1901 · page 2

A social gathering was held on Thursday evening at the Masonic Hall for the purpose of distributing the trophies won during the last cricket season. The chair was occupied…

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Elegy Written in a Country Golf Links

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 August 1901 · page 5

"Beneath these rugged elms, that maple's shade, where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,…

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Hay Rowing Club Regatta

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 22 August 1901 · page 2

The above Club held a regatta on Wednesday afternoon, and provided a good afternoon's sport. The various events were splendidly contested, and…

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Coursing

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 3

The season’s coursing in Berrigan, taking everything into consideration, has been a most decided success,, and the meeting which took place on…

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Coursing Club

The Independent · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 2

Although there is no likelihood of a match taking place this season, the members of the Coursing Club arc sparing no efforts to have the…

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Boxing. Death of an Oldtime Boxer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 19

Frederick Leary Smith, at one time of the champion boxers of Australia, died on Saturday night at the Pinnacles, near Broken Hill, where he had been living with his son,…

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The Game of Football

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 4

A certain football club had a very unenviable record of defeats, so a distinguished spectator made 'a' few nasty remarks to a committeeman…

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Sporting Notes. Races to Come

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 2

Murrumbidgee R.C. (Show Meeting)--August 24. Albury R.C.--September 6. Waagaratta R.C.--September 20…

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Original Correspondence. the Riverina Football Association. To the Editor

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 2

Sir,--The game played by the Daysdale and Barryjan teams on Saturday last brought to a conclusion the series of matches arranged by the above…

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Cricket in England. the County Championship. London, August 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 19

A cricket match between Yorkshire and Essex was concluded yesterday, which resulted in the defeat of the latter by an innings and 33 runs. The Yorkshiremen were…

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The Hay Junior Football Association. Presentation to Mr. Umpire Philpot

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 2

On Wednesday evening, at the Caledonian Hotel, Mr. James Philpot, who has acted as central umpire to the Junior football clubs during the present season with considerable…

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The Cricket Social. Trophies for Last Season Presented. Promises for Incoming Year

The Independent · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 4

The cricket social held in the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening, 15th instant, was well attended. The Secretary of the Association Mr. A. Fordham) read a…

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Berrigan Coursing Club

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 3

The officers and members of the above Club, and the owners of dogs, met at the Berrigan Hotel on Thursday evening, 22nd [?], when the settling-up in connection with…

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