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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Sport

Sport, 1899

278 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 9 of 14

Football

The Wellington Times · Monday 31 July 1899 · page 2

The Dubbo footballers, consisting of a team of 20 players, Waited Wellington on Saturday, and played Burrell Creek in the morning and Wellington in the afternoon. They were a pretty strong…

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Cricket

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 1 August 1899 · page 3

Trumpers score of 300 is the highest ever made by an Australian in England. Four wickets for 624 also establishes a record…

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Football

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1899 · page 4

ON Saturday morning last the Dubbo team left by the " Limerick: " en route for Wellington to meet teams representing that town and Burrell…

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Cricket

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 2 August 1899 · page 2

The Australians were last week beaten for the second time during their tour by Surrey which defeated thein by 104 Their next match against Sussex however…

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Lawn Tennis. Ladies (Singles) Handicap

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1899 · page 2

THE above tournament commenced on Thursday afternoon, and was continued on Saturday, with the following result:—…

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Football. Sydney V. England. Sydney, Tuesday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1899 · page 3

The Metropolitan team of footballers won the match against the Englishmen by eight points to five…

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FOOTBALL. England defeated N.S.W. by [?]. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, August 1

The Western Herald · Wednesday 2 August 1899 · page 2

The Metropolitan Union defeated England by 8 to 5…

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Football. WELLINGTON v. Half-holiday Club

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 August 1899 · page 2

Who "licked" the Half-Holidays? We, said the Wellingtons, by forty-one to three, We wiped the floor with them. All the stores in the town fell a-sighing and…

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Horse Races Won in Queer Ways

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 6

IT is admitted by most sportsmen that if racehorses were invariably run 'straight,' instead of to suit the owners' pockets, the financial side of the turf would no longer…

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Cricket AUSTRALIA v. M.C.C. & Ground Australia Wins by Nine Wickets

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 2

The Englishmen continued their second innings. Townsend, not out, 69; Stoddart, b Noble, 13; Board, b Noble, 0; Yong b T, O…

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Football

The Western Herald · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 2

All footballers are requested to meet at the Empire Hotel to-night at 8 o'clock for the purpose of considering a proposal to play a Cobar team at Bourke…

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Cricket

The Western Herald · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 2

Noble's average in the Paddington Cricket Club last season, with the bat, was 273 runs per innings. Noble still heads the batting averages. His…

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Sunday Football. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 3

At Wyalong police court yesterday, twenty-nine footballers for playing the game on Sunday were each fined a shilling without costs…

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Lawn Tennis. Handicap Tournament—gentlemen's Singles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 2

THE above tournament was won by J. McDonald. He secured 63 games out of a possible 66, and was only beaten in two sets. Howe, who came second, obtained…

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Wellington Cricket Club

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 August 1899 · page 2

The cricketers of Wellington made an auspicious start for the season, on Thursday night. The meeting was held at the Royal Hotel, and was attended by nearly thirty players and followers of the game…

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Football. "Old Bathurst" v. WELLINGTON

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 August 1899 · page 3

A match that excited a good deal of interest was played on Bell Park, on Saturday, between a team composed of ex-residents of Bathurst and the Wellington Club. Had those originally selected to…

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Sporting Intelligence. International Football

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 8 August 1899 · page 2

MR. MULLINEAUX'S team of English footballers was pitted for the third time during its present visit to the colonies against a team drawn from Queensland and New South Wales…

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Lawn Tennis

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1899 · page 2

A COMMITTEE meeting of the above club was held on Saturday evening, 5th inst. Present—Messrs. R. R. Hetherington (in the chair), H. Curry,…

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Football. COONABARABRAN v BINNAWAY.[Communicated.]

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 9 August 1899 · page 2

The match between Binnaway and Coonabarabran, which was played on the local ground, was won by the latter team by 17—nil, after one of the best, games,…

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Football. the Third Test Match

The Western Herald · Wednesday 9 August 1899 · page 2

Great interest was centred in the third test match against the English footballers, which was played in Sydney on Saturday last. The weather was favorable, but the…

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