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Sport, 1883

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Wolumla Athletic Sports

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1883 · page 2

THE second anniversary sports of the Wolumla Athletic Club were held on the flat in Mr. Schafer's paddock on Friday last, the Prince of Wales' Birthday. For some reason the…

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Colombo Athletic Sports

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1883 · page 2

ON Friday, Prince of Wales' Birthday, a goodly number mustered to witness the contests for the prizes offered by the Colombo Athletic Club. The officials had worked…

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Cricket Contest Amenities

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 29 November 1883 · page 2

THE Milton Times, describing the friendly and pleasant feeling which characterised the meeting of the Milton and Nowra cricketers at the contesting ground, Nowra, says:—…

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Bill Nyc on Boxing. As Illustrated by Personal Experience in the Manly Art

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 December 1883 · page 2

I HAVE just returned from a little two-handed tournament with the gloves. I have filled my nose with cotton waste so that I shall not soak this sketch in gore as I write…

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Curiosities of Cricket

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 13 December 1883 · page 4

CRICKET itself is a curiosity to most foreigners, French, Spanish and Portuguese writers, besides those of other countries, have described it with bewildering vagueness and misleading…

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Cricket

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 15 December 1883 · page 2

A MATCH between the Candelo and Panbula clubs was played at Panbula on Saturday, December 8, and resulted in a draw; the arrangement being that to…

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A. J. C. Meeting, Boxing Day

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 2

Hurdle Race won by Uhlan; Dundreary 2, Warrigal 3. December Stakes won by Buckingham; Iolanthe 2, Venetia 3…

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How I Went to the Races. What I Did There, and What I Did When I Came Back

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 1

It was s lovely morning, to be care. The sun shone brightly from a cloudless sky, and all that sort of thing, and the dust twirled along in fantastic eddies round the street…

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