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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1861

27 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Cricket Match at Araluen

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1861 · page 2

A CRICKET match between eleven of the lenities and eleven of Major’s Creek, came at .Grover’s Cricket Ground, Araluen, on Boxing Day, in the presence of upwards of…

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Proposed Cricket Matches

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1861 · page 2

The following letter has been received by the Hon. Secretary of the Braidwood (St. Vincent’s) Club, and will be brought forward for consideration on Wednesday evening next…

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[ADVERTISEMENT.] To the Stewards of the Queanbeyan Annual Races

The Golden Age · Saturday 19 January 1861 · page 3

GENTLEMEN, Having called a Meeting for the purpose of making arrangements for the Annual Races 1861, to be held at Mr. Lee's, I was obliged to…

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[ADVERTISEMENT.] To the Stewards of the Queanbeyan Annual Races

The Golden Age · Saturday 26 January 1861 · page 1

GENTLEMEN, Having called a Meeting for the purpose of making arrangements for the Annual Races 1861, to be held at Mr. Lee's, I was obliged to leave home on the day appointed, or I should…

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Local and Provincial News. Anniversary Day Cricket Match at Araluen. St. Vincent’s V. Araluen

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1861 · page 2

ON Saturday last, being the 73rd Anniversary of the Colony, it was. observed, as a holiday by, the public institutions in town, and by previous arrangement a cricket match…

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Intercolonial Cricket Match

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1861 · page 2

We learn by the Clyde mail of last evening that the Victorians have won the match with 20 runs to spare. Tho Victorians went in first, and scored only 68. Hew South Wales…

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Intercolonial Cricket Match

The Golden Age · Saturday 23 February 1861 · page 2

This great event is over, leaving our Victorian neighbours in possession of the palm. The Sydney papers intimate that the issue of the contest has originated a little bad feeling…

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Grand Cricket Match. St. Vincent's v. Araluen

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1861 · page 2

Saturday being fixed for. the return match between the St, Vincent's Club, of Braidwood, and the crack eleven of Araluen, the event was enhanced from the fact, that upon the…

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The Cricket Tournament

The Golden Age · Saturday 9 March 1861 · page 3

SCARCELY had the echoes of excitement consequent on the Intercolonial Match of that most noble and manly game of cricket died away, than the inhabitants of the rising…

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Cricket Match. St. Vincents (Braidwood) V. Araluen

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1861 · page 1

On Saturday morning last full of pleasant thoughts which are the most pleasant things in the world, we wended our way o'er the Pound Creek, bound on a pleasant excursion…

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R[?]idsdale Patrick's Races. Monday, March 18Th, 1861

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1861 · page 2

No sooner was our Extraordinary issued containing the Report of the Cricket March at Araluen, than our duty led us to Reidsdale to chronicle the proceedings in a different, but…

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Cooma Races

The Golden Age · Saturday 23 March 1861 · page 3

THESE Races, for which considerable preparations have been made, and which have been looked forward to with great interest, came off on the 13th, 14th, and 15th instant, there…

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Nimitybelle Races

The Golden Age · Thursday 11 April 1861 · page 3

FIRST RACE (Tuesday, April 2nd), for the Maiden Plate of 20 sovereigns; 2nd horse to receive 5 sovereigns. For all horses who have not won an advertised prize of £10…

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CRICKET.—QUEANBEYAN v. Cooma. to the Editor of the Golden Age

The Golden Age · Thursday 25 April 1861 · page 3

Sir,—Under the head of "Cricket Mems.," the following paragraph appeared in your issue of the 13th instant, and at the same has caused some little notice among the players of our club, and…

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Braid Wood Annual Races

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 15 May 1861 · page 2

On Sunday last the appearance of the -weather was anything but promising for the Race-week, and many of the persons who feel the deepest interest in the successful progress and termination…

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Local and Provincial News. Braidwood Annual Races. the Secondary

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1861 · page 2

As would be seen from our last issue, the promise held out of a good second day's sport at the Annual Races was a satisfactory one, the weather was right royally fine, the attendance…

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Local and Provincial News. Jembaicumbene Races

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 25 May 1861 · page 2

In discharge of a, dual obligation, we determined yesterday to kill two birds with [?] stone, and in the pursuance of our vocation which requires almost that we…

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Local Intelligence. Cricket: the Return-match Between Goulburn & QUEANBEYAN

The Golden Age · Thursday 30 May 1861 · page 2

THIS event, which has been looked forward to with more than ordinary interest, commenced on Friday and was brought to a conclusion on Saturday last. The weather, although…

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Strike-a-light Races

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1861 · page 2

We are profoundly ignorant of the peculiar topographical conditions of the country in the vicinity of modern Bellevue which coal. I have given rise to the Will o' the Wisp and Jack…

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Cricket

The Golden Age · Thursday 8 August 1861 · page 4

As this game is become so very popular, we publish the game itself adopted by the Sligo Club, and as played by the far-famed Marylebone Club— —which…

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