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Sport, 1899

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Cricket Club Social. Presentation of Trophies

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 25 May 1899 · page 2

The Nowra Half Holiday Cricket Club, comprising chiefly storekeepers and their employees, celebrated, the close of the season as usual, by a…

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Shoalhaven District Pub- Lic Schools Athletic Association

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 25 May 1899 · page 4

The annual general meeting of the members of the above took place at the Nowra Public School on Saturday, 13th inst. Mr. A. S. Garden…

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Quaama Tennis Club Ball

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 26 May 1899 · page 3

For some time past it has been the intention of the residents of Quaama to form a Tennis Club, and on the 5th inst., a meeting was held with the…

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Oysters on Cricket Crown Lands

Moruya Examiner · Friday 26 May 1899 · page 2

RECENTLY at C[?] the police pross[?] for taking system from Crown land but the P. M. and Me[?] Bate and Carter influenced by…

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Candelo Athletic Club. Candelo

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 26 May 1899 · page 2

THE Candelo Athletic Club annual sports took place to-day. The weather was beautifully fine and the attendance numbered about 700. The…

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Bemboka Athletic Club. [From Our Correspondent.]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1899 · page 2

OFFICIALS—Judge, Mr. A. Coughran ; assistant judge, Mr. E. Poole; starter, Mr. D. L. O’Neill; master, Mr. E. W. Wilkin ; clerk of track, Mr. J. D…

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South Coast Rugby Football Union

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 3 June 1899 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the above wag held at the Commercial Hotel, Berry, on Wednesday afternoon. The President, Mr. H. D. Morton, occupied the chair…

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Football Match. Cobargo Defeats Dry River

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 2

THE Dry River football club, although the last to be formed, was one of the first to put a team into the field, meeting the Cobargo fifteen on the local…

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Football

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 2

THE South Coast senior competition for the Hay shield commences on the Berry show ground this afternoon, the opposing teams being Gerringong and Shoalhaven. Play is to…

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Football

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 14 June 1899 · page 2

The South Const senior competition for the Hay shield was opened on Saturday, when Gerringong and Shoalhaven Clubs played a match on the…

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Football

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 15 June 1899 · page 2

The South Coast senior competition for the Hay shield was opened on Saturday, when Gerringong and Shoalhaven Clubs played a match on the…

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Football. Gerringong Defeats Shoalhaven

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 17 June 1899 · page 1

THERE are only two clubs cutting this season in the senior competition for the Hay shield, Shoalhaven and Gerringong, which met on the Berry Agricultural Grounds on…

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Football Match. Cobargo defeated by Centrilba

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 23 June 1899 · page 2

Cobargo Club, playing the second match of the season here, was defeated by Centrilba by 9 points to 6. The Cobargo representatives, as was…

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Public Schools’ Athletic Association

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 3

The following communication has been received by the hon. secretary of the Public Schools’ Athletic Association (Mr. S. Fuller), from the Railway Commissioners with reference…

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Cricket. Some Points About the Australians. [From “Pall Mall Gazette ” of May 18Th]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1899 · page 4

THERE are one or two points in connection with the relative positions of English and Australian cricket which appear to as to have been rather…

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The Central Tilba Tennis Ball

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 2

IN response to a courteous invitation from the honorary secretary of the Central Tilba Tennis Club, a representative of this paper was present at a…

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Candelo Coursing Club

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 2

OFFICIALS—Patron, Mr. R. L. Tor[?] president, Mr. W. W. Wren ; vice-presidents Messrs. W. F. Darragh. W. J. Collins, and J. J. Collins; judge, Mr…

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Tennis

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 2

The courts of the newly formed Shoalhaven Tennis Club in Nowra are to be opened for play on Saturday afternoon next…

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Sporting Football

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 2

The match Nowra v. Gerringong in Nowaa on Saturday last resulted in a draw. Mr. C. S. Moss was referee. This was the final match in the South Coast…

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Tennis

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 20 July 1899 · page 2

The courts of the newly formed Shoalhaven Tennis Club in Nowra are to be opened for play on Saturday afternoon next…

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