The Races. Wednesday, April 10
Match between Mr. Baynton and Mr. Field, for £100, won by Mr. Baynton. Sweepstakes 125 sovs., won by Mr. J. Field's Paul Jones…
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New Laws of Cricket, Revised by the Marylebone Club. the Ball
1. Must not weigh less than five ounces and a half, nor more than five ounces and three quarters. It must measure not less than nine inches, nor more than nine inches and one quarter in circumference…
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The match between the Australian and Victoria Clubs, which commenced on Monday, was terminated yesterday, the former being defeated by twenty-nine runs. But, it…
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In accordance with an announcement in our last number a match was played on the Hyde Park Cricket ground, on Monday and Tuesday last between, the city players of…
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1. When there shall be less than five players on a side, bounds shall be placed, twenty two yards each in a line from the off and leg stump. 2. The ball must be hit before the bounds to…
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A match came off on Monday at Hyde Park, between eleven of the City Cricket Club, and a like number of the Currency Lad Club, for five shillings each bat. Although the day was very bleak, the spirits…
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HORSES take their ages from the 1st of January, i. c. a horse foaled any time in the year 1842, is one year old on the 1st of January, 1843. A hand is four inches ; a stone is fourteen pounds…
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In every sweepstakes in which there shall be any allowance of weight to the produce of untried horses or mares, such allowance shall be claimed on the article by each subscriber, before the expiration of the time of…
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The hero of the following remarkable narrative is one of that laborious and hardy class known at the seaports of England by the general name of Beachmen. They are usually…
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These sports commence to-day, when the following races will bo run:- FIRST RACE. The Metropolitan Stakes of five sovereigns…
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THE races at Homebush commenced yesterday. In consequence of the late inclemency of the weather, the attendance was much thinner than it would otherwise have been. During the…
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The following are the particulars of the Sports at Homebush, yesterday:— FIRST RACE. The Metropolitan Stakes of five…
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[?] races were decided yesterday:— FIRST RACE. First Hack Stakes often sovereigns, with [?] of two sovereigns each, for all…
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These festivities commenced on Tuesday last, and although the times, and their depression have cast a shadow upon all holiday sports, a considerable assemblage of the lovers of sport from Sydney,…
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The following are the particulars of the sports at Home bush, on Tuesday:-- FIRST RACE. The Metropolitan Stakes of five sovereigns each, with…
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THESE races came off on Tuesday 23rd instant, and two following days; the atttendance on the first two days was much thinner thin on former occasions; but on Thursday the course…
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