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Sport, 1850

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The Anniversary Regatta

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 January 1850 · page 2

It will be seen in our advertizing columns, to which we, in this instance, have much pleasure in referring, that the Sixty-second Anniversary of New South Wales has every prospect of being…

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Cricket. Match Between Eleven of the Clubs in Sydney, Picked by Harry Hilyabd and Palmer

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 January 1850 · page 2

This most interesting match, to test the relative qualities of the Sydney Cricket Clubs, was decided on the Hyde Park cricket ground on Monday. Palmer's side went in first, and scored…

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AQUATICS. The Anniversary Regatta

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 12 January 1850 · page 2

In our last number we submitted a hope that, out of respect to the religions scruples of a large and influential body of our fellow-citizens—and, also, with reference to the inconvenience of the…

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Cricket

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 12 January 1850 · page 2

CRICKET AT MELBOURNE.—A masch which seems to have attracted much attention came off at Melbourne on New Year's Day. It was between one picked eleven of the Melbourne Club against…

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Mulwaley Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 12 January 1850 · page 2

This meeting, which came off on the 26th and 27th ult., was characterised by unusual eclat; the respectability of the attendance being far beyond what had been anticipated. The…

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Cricket

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 January 1850 · page 4

On Monday last, a match at this noble English game was played at Parramatta, between eleven of the Cumberland and eleven of the Australian clubs. This match excited considerable interest, and some good play was evinced on both sides. We regret to say that…

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Cricket in 1849

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 19 January 1850 · page 5

January 1.—Match at Sydney, between Wilkinson and 10 others, and Hilliard and 10 others. Won by the latter in one innings, with four wickets to go down…

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AQUATICS. Anniversary Regatta

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 26 January 1850 · page 2

This, weather permitting, is the day (of all days of the week the most inconvenient,) resolved on for the customary aquatic fete in celebration of the anniversary of the Colony's…

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The Adelaide Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 26 January 1850 · page 2

The following is the result of the second day's sports:— JANUARY 2ND. Ladies' Purse, won by Coglin's Lady Young,…

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Cricket in 1849

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 26 January 1850 · page 1

January 1.—Match at Sydney, between Wilkinson and 10 others, and Hilliard and 10 others. Won by the latter in one innings, with four wickets to go down…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, January 28, 1850. "Sworn to no Master of no Sect am I." Domestic Intelligence. the Regatta in Commemoration of the 62Nd Anniversary of the Colony

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1850 · page 2

THE Anniversary of the Foundation of the Colony, which took place on Saturday last, was celebrated by the inhabitants with much of that nationality which usually characterises…

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Anniversary Regatta, Saturday, January 26, 1850

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 2 February 1850 · page 1

The harbour of Port Jackson presented a most brusque and picturesque appearance at an early hour on Saturday morning. The signal gun boomed from Fort Phillip, at 10 A.M., and…

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The Regatta in Commemoration of the 62Nd Anniversary of the Colony

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 2 February 1850 · page 32

The Anniversary of the Foundation of the Colony, which took place on Saturday last, was celebrated by the inhabitants with much of that nationality which usually characterises…

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Our Racing Prospects

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 16 February 1850 · page 2

THE programmes of the various meetings for the ensuing season, as advertised in these columns, number no fewer than ELEVEN, each of which bears impress of…

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King's Plains' Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 February 1850 · page 2

We are happy, to say that the attempt which has been made to revive the King's Plains Annual Races' has been as successful as could be wished, and that the races which are intended as…

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Parramatta Hack Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 February 1850 · page 2

The following is the result of these races, which came off on Tuesday last. They were got up by some of the Parramatta sportinggents. who entertained a very laudable anxiety to enliven…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondent.) Bathurst Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1850 · page 3

THE entrance meeting for the first day's sport was held in a small room at Mr. Declout's Inn, which was soon crowded to suffocation, and the parties present had to undergo the process of…

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Sporting Intelligence. Bathurst Races. Second Day, Thursday, February 2[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1850 · page 2

IN consequence of the very unfavourable state of the weather there was a thin attendance, but few pedestrians. 1st Race.—Hack hurdle race of £15, with [?]…

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Racing in Russia

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 March 1850 · page 1

The long-talked of match between two English and two Coasack horses, distance 71 versts, or 47½ English miles, took place on the 4th of August, and was won by one of the English…

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Sporting News. Bathurst Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 March 1850 · page 1

In our last week's issue we referred to the alteration of the race course: and the impediments which had been thrown in the way of the Committee by Mr. Lawson. We now revert to the…

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