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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1895

971 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 49

Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 11

Maitland aquatic sports to-day. Train leaves Newcastle 12.55. The visiting team to-day will not be numerically as strong as on the…

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Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 3

The Newcastle Swimming Club has decided to wind up the season on the 4th April, when a carnival will be held, at which a display of life-saving will be given. The 95 yards…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 3

A meeting of the Carrington Football Club was hold at Lloyd's Oriental Hotel, on Monday evening. The president of the club, Mr. Peter Cunningham, occupied the chair, and…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 3

To-day, should the weather prove fine, a couple of interesting cricket matches will take place. Hamilton and Newcastle finish their match on the Newcastle Cricket Ground in…

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Singleton Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 3

The above meeting was brought to a conclusion yesterday during cool and fine weather. The attendance was fair, a larger number of the fair sex being present than on…

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Centennial Football Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 3

The seventh annual meeting of this club was held at Mason's Australian Hotel last night, when there was a large attendance of members…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 3

A wrestling match between Tom Cannon (who is well-known in Melbourne) and J. Larkin, of Australia, took place at Bradford, England, on February 14. The match was…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1895 · page 8

PEARL v. MORPATH.—These teams continued their match at Morpeth on Saturday afternoon, and the visitors were victorious by an innings and 16 runs. In their first…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1895 · page 3

Owing to the Victoria Theatre being engaged next Saturday, the principals in the Trelovan-Cunningham boxing contest have secured the Olympic Hall. These…

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District News. Toronto. Regatta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 3

THE Toronto regatta committee propose holding two sailing races on Easter Saturday. CASE OF SNAKEBITE…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 3

Information has been received in Wellington (N.Z) that a New South Wales representative Association football team will tour New Zealand during the coming season if…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 3

There is no denying that the lbw decision is quite the hardest which the umpire has to give. He has not a positive matter of fact to decide upon—except whether the ball,…

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A Racing Transaction. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 5

THE case of Proudfoot against Blunt, in which a considerable amount of interest was evinced by the sporting fraternity, was disposed of by Judge Backhouse in the District…

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Newcastle Football Club. Nineteenth Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 3

There was a large attendance of members at the above meeting, held at the Great Northern Hotel last night. In the unavoidable absence of the president (Mr. H. H…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 3

During the season the amateur champion, C. A. Bradley, won numerous scratch races, and with the exception of, perhaps, Max Wittenberg, of Accrington, no English…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1895 · page 8

FORT STREET V. EAST MAITLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—These teams met at the Albion Ground, West Maitland, yesterday, and the visitors won by four wickets and 48 runs…

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Athletics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1895 · page 3

Jones, the champion handball player of Australia, demonstrated his great ability in the ball court by defeating Riordan, champion of the Pacific Coast, by five games to three…

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Rat Coursing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1895 · page 3

Joe Murphy will hold a rat-coursing sweep at Hamilton on Saturday, and as a number of dogs will compete from all parts of the district, a large crowd will doubtless witness…

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Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1895 · page 3

By advertisement it will be seen that a meeting of the Stockton Football Club will take place this evening…

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Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1895 · page 8

The representatives of the Fort-street school, who are at present on tour at Maitland, met a combination from the East Maitland High School on the Albion Ground,…

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