Cricket
A match at single wicket will be played on Monday, at the Hyde Park ground, between Messrs. M. Clarkson and Horner. The latter seems to be the favorite at 6 and 7 to 4…
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The Drapers' Races
The unpropitious state Of the elements was hot allowed to counter-act the Annual equestrian exhibition of the Draper's feats of equestrianism, which accordingly came off on Monday, at Homebush The…
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According to advertisement, these races came off yesterday, Wednesday, the 29th instant, on the beautiful and picturesque maedow the Australian Race Course. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sporting Reviewer. The Curf. the Drapers' Club Races
On Monday last the annual race meeting of this body came off at Homebush, and though the rain had continued falling throughout tho whole of the previous day,…
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The following are the entrances for the St. Leger, and the Trial Stakes, taken on Saturday last, at the Royal Hotel. FOR THE ST. LEGER…
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GENTLEMEN,—The return match between the "Victoria" and "Currency Clubs," came off yesterday, and again terminated in an easy victory for the latter. This result I should…
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THE first swimming matches ever got up in Australia, came off on Saturday morning at the swimming baths. This noble and manly exercise is much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Cricket. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—The lukewarm encouragement which the national sports and pastimes of Old England meet with from the higher classes in this colony, is a matter of great regret…
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1st Prize, £15 for all horses carrying weight for age, heats round the course. Mr. Crow's Ajax, rode by Coffee.... 1 1 Mr. Declout's Fizgig................ 2 3…
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A MATCH between ten members of the City Club, with Clarkson, of the Australian, given in, and the Currency Club, came off on Monday, (being St. Patrick's Day); the play on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Extracts. Doctor Arnolds Career at Rugby. (From the Quarterly Review.)
HE was elected to Rugby in 1827; and there he had a larger field for that game where, to use his own words, "your pawns are living creatures, and your…
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On Monday last, the Union Cricket Club took the field for the first time; they selected as their opponents the Currency Club, stipulating that Sly and Horner, the best bowlers of the Currency, were…
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OWING to the fineness of the weather the Petersham Course which, by the way, has, since the last meeting, undergone some very beneficial improvements by stumping and clearing and promises to be no mean…
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OWING to the fineness of the weather the Petersham Course, which, by the way, has, since the last meeting, undergone some very beneficial improvements by stumping and clearing, and promises to be no mean…
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A match with the members of the above club came off on Monday, the 24th March, on the green adjoining Mr. Honeysett's mill. The following was the score-- Mr. Honeysett's Eleven…
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GENTLEMEN,—After a long succession of defeats, victory has at last declared for the Victoria Club. This novelty, although partly owing to the fine bowling of R. Still, from the…
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"God made the country, and man made the town; Or true or false, so Cowper wrote it down; And fields, we ween, might boast a purer race, Ere change of manners grew, or change of place."…
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THE weather on Monday bore a threatening appearance of rain, and during the day there were occasional showers. Tuesday: In the fore part of the day there were showers also,…
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SECOND DAY, MAY 1.—This day the weather cleared up, there was a sharp cold wind which insisted in mending the state of the course, and appearances of plenty of rain around, and not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondents.) Bathurst Races. Third Day, Friday, May 2
THE weather was this day more favourable than either of the previous days of the races, and there was in consequence a far greater assemblage than had been present before;…
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