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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1899

273 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 14

Sunday Football Playing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 3

A case of some importance came before the Wyalong Court on Thursday morning, when, under the Town Police Act, thirty young men, monitors of two football clubs,…

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Boxing. Dan O'connell v. Jack Conlon

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 2

The above contest drew an enormous crowd to the Golden Gate Athletic Club on Saturday night. It was of a very exciting character right up to the 18th round, at…

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Saturday's Football The Fight For the Land Challenge Cup

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 2

"They came, they tried, they were tricked."--CESAR, parodied, 'T was on the eighth of bleak July, This selfsame month and year;…

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Football. the Land Challenge Cup. Queanbeyan Defeats the Captain's Flat Rovers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 2

LAST Saturday the Captain's Flat Rovers came to Queenbeyan to play the local team for the Land Challenge Cup. Considerable interest was manifested in this match, it…

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Boxing Match

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 2

The battle between Dan O'Connell (the Captain's Flat footballer) and Jack Conlon drew an enormous crowd to the Golden Gate Athletic Club on Saturday night. The…

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Cricket

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 2

The Australians commenced the eighteenth match of their tour at Truro, in Cornwall, on Friday last, where they met an Eleven of England, got together by Lord Robartes. The weather was fine and the…

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Football. Queanbeyan Beats Rovers

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 2

The first match for the Land Challenge Football Cup took place on the Rec. on Saturday, a large number of spectators being present. The collection boxes were not…

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Boxing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 2

GREAT interest was taken here in the boxing match between Dan O'Connell and Jack Conlon which took place last Saturday week. A considerable amount of…

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Football

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 3

SINCE the defeat of the Captain's Flat Rovers football locally is apparently dead. Bungendore has written to the secretary of the local club asking if Queanbeyan…

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Football

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 2

THE vanquished Rovers returned to the Flat in the drenching rain last Sunday week presenting a rather dejected appearance. They admitted that they had not…

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A Sensational Cricket Match

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 4

Many [?]sational things have been done on English Cricket Grounds this summer, but nothing to equal the Australians' brilliant victory at Cambridge (says the Evening…

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Latest Telegrams. Cricket. Fourth Test Match

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday, 9 20 a.m.—England won the toss. The weather was fine, and there was an enormous attendance. Hill, Johns and McLeod are standing out. The scores…

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Football

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 2

WITH regard to the communication received from Bungendore asking Queanbeyan to send a second fifteen to play them a match, the secretary has received…

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Football Match

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 2

For the purpose of keeping themselves in form for their future matches, the Queanbeyan football teem will play 20 others picked from the following to-day (Saturday)…

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Football. the Second Test Match

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 2

The second test football match, England v. Australia, was played on the Exhibition Ground, Brisbane, on Saturday afternoon At the opening of the match fully 15,000…

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Football. [Secretaries of Clubs are invited to send reports of matches played in the district; but the some should reach us the day before publication.] Saturday's Matches

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 2

To give the local team practice a number of second rates played them a scratch match in the park on Saturday. When the time for starting arrived only thirteen of…

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Cricket

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 July 1899 · page 2

Play to the match between the Australians and Dr. Grace's Eleven was returned at the London County Ground, Cryatal place, on Friday. The home team, who had scored 358 for the loss of five…

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International Football

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 July 1899 · page 2

The English footballers played a match against Australia at Brisbane on Saturday, and defeated them by 11 points to 0. There was a very large attendance. The match…

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Football. FIFTEEN v. TWENTY

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 July 1899 · page 2

The Cup team of the Queanbeyan Football Club made a match on Saturday last with the next best twenty of the players. The team were two players short, and the…

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Football

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 July 1899 · page 3

The English footballers defeated the Northern Uniteds by 28 points to nil…

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