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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1908

130 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 7

Football

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1908 · page 2

By to-nigha's train a team of Queanbeyan footballers leave for Braidwood and to-morrow will play a match for the Ryrie Cup. Queanbeyan are taking a fair team and…

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Football

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1908 · page 2

GUNDAROO play Queanbeyan for the Mandelson Cup on Saturday. If the visitors play the game anything like the good old days when the genial "Clem." donned the black…

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Football. BRAIDWOOD V. QUEANBEYAN

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1908 · page 2

A MATCH for the Ryrie Cup was played on the local recreation ground on Saturday afternoon last between Braidwood and Queanbeyan, and resulted in a win for the former…

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Football. Braidwood V. Queanbeyan

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 July 1908 · page 2

A match for the Ryrie Cup was played on the local recreation ground on Saturday afternoon last between Braid wood and Queenbeyan, and resulted in a win for the…

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Football. Visit of Queanbeyan Warrigals to Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1908 · page 2

A MATCH was played on Saturday afternoon between teams representing the Queanbeyan Warrigals and a Yass second fifteen. The Queanbeyan boys left home on Friday night…

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Football. Braidwood v Back Creek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 July 1908 · page 2

A match for the Ryrie Cup between the Braidwood and Back Creek teams was played on the local recreation ground on Saturday afternoon last, and resulted in a…

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Sir Thomas Lipton. Cost of Yacht-racing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 July 1908 · page 4

Sir Thomas Upton has now returned from Ceylon, where he has been entertaining the Empress Eugenie. Princess Henry of Battenberg, with whom he is…

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Procession and Football Match

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 July 1908 · page 2

At 2 p.m. a procession was formed at the Fire Station and passed through Monaro Street to the Park, to the strains of music supplied by…

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A Football Story

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 3

Covered with mud, his clothes and his face bleeding, the wretched man fled before a crowd of people. An old carter who was driving…

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The Game of Football. Football and the British Empire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 3

There is hardly a place mentionable on the face of the globe where the ubiquitous Britisher penetrates but you'll now find the glorious, manly…

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Football

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 2

THE following team have boon selected to represent the Senior and Warrigal Football Clubs in a match for the Mandelson Challenge Cup to be played in the park to-morrow:—…

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The Money in Golf

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 5

Some idea of the importance of golf as a game in the United Kingdom is (writes "Australian Golf") given by figures which were recently published…

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Fight at a Football Match

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 5

Football is rapidly resolving itself from what is called a football match into a downright fight between the players. A wire from Melbourne on Sunday says that few more disgraceful scenes have…

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Football

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 3

ON Wednesday, afternoon a match for the Mendelson Cup was played in the Park between the Queanbeyan and Warrigal Football Clubs…

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Football. Warrigals Take the Cup

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 2

ON Wednesday the Senior and Warrigal Clubs played a match for the Mandelson Cup held by the former club. The day was an ideal one for football, although the recent…

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Evils of Horse Racing. Insolvent Sent to Gaol. Melbourne

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 5

In the Insolvency Court to-day Judge Moule delivered his reserved judgement on compulsory certificate application on behalf of Timothy O'Hanlon, formerly of Lilydale…

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Football

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 2

TO-MORROW afternoon the Senior and Warrigal teams play a match for the Mandelson Cup, now in the possession of the latter team. It is expected that an exciting game will…

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Football

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1908 · page 2
Also in The Queanbeyan Observer

ON Wednesday the Warrigal and Senior teams met in a match for the Mandelson Cup, the Seniors regaining possession of same by 5 points to nil. The match was a…

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Football Law-breakers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 3

Perhaps one of the least-known unrepealed statutes in existence is the one which dates back to Charles I's reigh, and forbids a man…

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