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Sport, 1881

24 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 2

Great Swimming Feat

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1881 · page 3

ANOTHER candidate for the honours awarded so liberally to champion swimmers appears in the person of the eldest son of Lord Dufferin. To the celebrated names of Leander, Lord Byron,…

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Wellingrove Athletic Sports

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1881 · page 2

I MOUNTED Johnsonian on the memorable 9th as the clock struck ten. Small birds twittered in the stately elms hard by my retaining " gulch," and the genial warmth of the sun seemed to lend a charm…

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Swimming. (From Chambers' Journal.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1881 · page 2

MANY concurrent circumstances show the desirability of encouraging the art of swimming among young persons of both sexes. Of the liberal manner in which the…

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Correspondents' Column. the Approaching Races. (To the Editor.)

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1881 · page 2

SIR,--It strikes me as being rather strange that the public (who, by the bye, are expected to provide the "sinews of war") should be left so much in the dark about the management of…

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