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Sport, 1901

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Football

The Temora Star · Wednesday 10 July 1901 · page 2

The Young "Britons" beat the Cootarmundra "Waratahs," at Young, on Wednesday last, by 8 points to nil. The intercolonial match between…

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Sporting. Racing Fixtures

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 July 1901 · page 2

Murrumbidgee Race Club (Show Meeting)—August 24. Cootamundra, Turf Club (Spring Meeting)—August 30…

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Tennis

Coolamon Echo · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 5

ON Saturday afternoon last, a very, enjoyable and close contest, was played on Mr. W. H. Bullen’s court at Old Junee between a team got together by…

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Football

The Temora Star · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The juniors play Lintondale tomorrow. The match between the "Federals and a team representing the…

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Sporting. Racing Fixtures

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 3

Murrumbidgee Race Club (Show Meeting)—August 24. Cootamundra Turf Club (Spring Meeting)—August 30…

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English Cricket. the No-ball Question

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 2

Daring a match yesterday between Lancashire and Somerset cricket teams, Phillips, the umpire, no-balled Mold, the Somerset bowler, eighteen times in…

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Sporting. Football

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 16 July 1901 · page 2

The following players will represent the Federal Boys in a match against the Tumut Juniors at Adelong on to-morrow afternoon:—J. Fifield…

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Curious Incidents at Cricket. (W. S. Ford, in the "Strand Magazine.")

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 July 1901 · page 4

Fatal accidents are, fortunately, very rare occurrences in cricket, yet of those that are recorded none is more extraordinary perhaps than the following, which…

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Cricket in England. the No-balling of Mold. London, July 12

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 July 1901 · page 2

The no-balling of Mold, the Lancashire bowler, by James Paillips, the umpire, in a match played at Manchester between the counties of Lancashire and…

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Boxing

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

Peter Jackson, ex-champion heavy weight boxer, died on Saturday night at a private sanatorium at Roma (Queensland) from consumption. He was in his fortieth year…

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Golf

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

The usual monthly competition over a 9-hole course will be played this (Wednesday) afternoon. The four best actual scorers will play off for the club's championship for the…

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Football

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2
Also in The Temora Star

Teams representing Wagra and Gobarralong met at the latter place on the 14th instant. The Wagra team was chiefly composed of Gundagai players, the village being…

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Cricket

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

In addition to the names already announced (Jessop, Lilley, and Hayward), Mr. Maclaren has engaged Messrs. C. B. Fry, R. E. Foster, and J. T. Tyldesley for the English cricket…

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Sporting. Racing Fixtures

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

Murrumbidgee Race Club (Show Meeting)—August 24. Cootamundra Turf Club (Spring Meeting)—August 30…

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Athletics

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

The half-mile foot race between W. M'Manus (New South Wales) and Dave Smith. (Bundaberg) for £50 a side took place at Bundaberg (Queensland) on Friday…

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Wagga Coursing Club. July Meeting

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 July 1901 · page 3

The July meeting of the above o'ub held on the Plumpton Grounds, Lake Albert, yesterday afternoon, proved successful. The weather, although cold, was fine, and…

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Inter-state Football

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 July 1901 · page 2

The football match between the Queensland and Metropolitan teams, played in Sydney to-day, was won by the former by 29 points to 16…

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Scientific Boxing. Parties Before the Court. Case Dismissed

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 July 1901 · page 4

Messrs. P. Moran and E. W. Donnelly, J's.P., had an interesting case to adjudicate upon at the Wagga Police Court on Tuesday, the result of an assertion made…

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