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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1880

511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 26

Cricket Club Sports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 4

SHOULD to-day dawn fair, the public will be afforded one of the most enjoyable exhibitions of athleticism that has occurred in the district for a long time. The…

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Athletics. Fixtures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 3

May 1—City Club Amateur Sports; Newcastle cricket ground May 10.—Gardner (Bulli) v. Lo'and (Goulburn); 150 yards, at Bulli; £10[?]…

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N. C. C. Athletic Sports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 May 1880 · page 2

A REPORT of the above sports, held on Saturday last, is unavoidably held over…

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Newcastle C.C. Amateur Athletic Sports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1880 · page 3

THE sports held on Saturday last, under the auspices of the Newcastle Cricket Club (which were postponed from the 24th April through the inclemency of the…

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Coursing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1880 · page 3

THE Sentinel says: The coming meeting at Bathurst, from present appearances, will be by far the most brilliant one we have yet had. We are literally swarming with…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 May 1880 · page 2

NORTHERN DISTRICT v. NEWCASTLE DISTRICT,—The following players have been selected to do battle for the Northern District, in the above match, which takes…

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Newcastle Football Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 May 1880 · page 2

WE are requested to remind footballers that a pickup match of members of the Newcastle Football Club will be played on Saturday next…

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FOOTBALL. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 May 1880 · page 3

SIR,—As the football season has now commenced, I should like to call the attention of those young men, who live in the suburbs of Wickham,…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1880 · page 3

THE Albion Ground at Maitland is to be the scene of a football match to-day, the cub having decided to open the season with a scratch match. Our…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1880 · page 5

THE 2nd eleven Ironclad team selected to play against the Waratah C. C. are requested to muster at the Bellevue Hotel, Hannell-street, Wickham, at 2.15 p.m…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1880 · page 3

The match fixed for this afternoon, at the Newcastle Cricket Club's ground, between an eleven of the Northern district and a like number of…

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Quirindi Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1880 · page 3

THE following weights in connection with the Queen's Birthday Meeting, has been declared. QUIRINDI HANDICAP…

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Athletics. Fixtures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1880 · page 3

May 10.—Gardner (Bulli v. Lo'and (Goulburn); 150 yards, at Bulli; £100. May 13.—W. Edwards v. W. Baker 48 hours walk, at Sydney; £100 and championship…

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Coursing at Bathurst

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 May 1880 · page 2

THE great coursing carnival of N. S. Wales, which has been exciting much interest among followers of the leash, commences to-morrow, at Bathurst. A…

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Bathurst Coursing Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1880 · page 3

A number of gentlemen from this district have left for Bathurst, to be present at the coursing meeting to be held during the present week. The…

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Cricket. 11 of Newcastle and Ironclad C. Clubs Combined V. Eleven of Northern Districts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1880 · page 3

A MATCH of great interest, and which also was the concluding game of the season, was played on the ground of the Newcastle C. Club, on Saturday…

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Coursing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1880 · page 3

NOMINATIONS for the forthcoming coursing at Maitland, on the 24th, close with the secretary (Mr. S. Bertles) to-morrow. The prize money is liberal, and as the…

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Amateur Athletic Sports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1880 · page 4

THE sixteenth meeting of the Sydney Amateur Athletic Club was brought off with great success on Saturday last at the cricket ground, Moore…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1880 · page 3

The entries for the Queen's Handicap, to be run at Bathurst on the 24th, number forty-three, including some of the premier sprinters in this and the adjoining…

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Bathurst Coursing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 May 1880 · page 3

IN the Dockabairne Stakes, run on Wednesday, Mr. Fletcher's Destruction was beaten by Cox's Bowler, and Rowe's Rose Bud beat Fanny Mars. The other…

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