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Sport, 1869

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Cricket Notes

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 4 December 1869 · page 4

And so Jack Smith has been condemned to the Warwicks. If ever you bowled yourself out, my friend "Jack," you have done so this time. Why condemned to the Warivicks I should like to know? Is there ought derogatory attaching to such an…

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Entries for the Tattersall's Club Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 4 December 1869 · page 2

The following are the entrances which were made yesterday evening for the Tattersall's Club Races, to take place at Randwick, on the 1st and 3rd January next:…

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Rules for the Management of the New South Wales Cricket Association, (Adopted at a General Meeting, held Norember 1st, 1869.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 4 December 1869 · page 4

1. The general management of the CRICKET ASSOCIATION shall be vested in the Committee, which shall consist of the Trustess of the Domain Cricket Ground and Delegates from the various Cricket Clubs…

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Pedestrianism. Athletic Sports at Botany

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 4 December 1869 · page 2

After several postponements and disappointments, the remainder of the Prince of Wales Birthday Races have been decided. The Botany management, no doubt encouraged by the success of the opening affair, determined to give the general public and the…

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Cricket Notes

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 11 December 1869 · page 4

I have during the week read carefully over the rules of the Cricket Association, which you published in last Saturday's "Bell;" and I am constratined to say that I see very little in them. The internal arrangeemnts for keeping members in order…

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PEDESTRIANISM. Boxing Day Sports on the Albert Ground

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 11 December 1869 · page 2

In our advertising columns will be found the full programme of the athletic sports and other amusement, to take place on the Albert Ground on Boxing Day. The most important feature in the programme is the…

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Tattersall's Club Races. by Pegasus

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 11 December 1869 · page 2

From a very small beginning as a racing club, Tattersalls has risen in a few years into a position of considerable importance; this year coming out for the first time with a two day's programme; and, if it is still…

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Sporting Gazette. Races to Come. New South Wales

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 December 1869 · page 2

Tattersail's New Year's D:— January 1st, 1870. VICTORIA. Melbourne Tattersall's January 1st, 1870. V. R. C. Summer Meeting—January 1st 1870…

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Hunter's Hill Regatta. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 December 1869 · page 5

SIR,—Is it on innovation to charge "high entrances in all races and give prizes to yachts only?" In the pregramme, published in Saturday's Herald, I notice that the entrances for the Hunter's Hill Regatta are…

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Boxing Day Sports at the Albert Ground

Empire · Wednesday 15 December 1869 · page 3

Probably the finest pedestrian contests ever witnessed in the colons will be those to come off at the Albert Ground on Boxing Day. We refer more particularly to those for the Sydney Cup. For these…

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Botany Boxing Day Sports

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 18 December 1869 · page 2

A very satisfactory programme has been announced for Boxing Day at Botany, and it, we suppose has been eagerly scanned by those interested in such matters For the delectation of the public the management have…

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Cricket in Queensland

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 18 December 1869 · page 4

Our Brisbane correspondent sends us a mass of scores which wool at any time be wholly unit teresting to our general readers, and in the present Instance are useless in consequence of the length of tim since the matches were played. We hardly think…

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The Victorian Turf. Ballarat Annual Races. First Day, 2Nd December

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 18 December 1869 · page 4

The opening day of these races fafled to prove as attractive as asual and there were by no means as many on the course as we were prepared to see. The first race of the day was the Telegraph Stakes of half a mile, for which nine horses out of the thirteen…

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Cricket Match Between Two Elevens of the Flying Squadron

Evening News · Wednesday 22 December 1869 · page 3
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Admiral Hornby having consented to allow two elevens of the flest under hie command a day's holiday, for the purpose of contesting for supremacy at cricket, the match took place yesterday in the Outer Domain…

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Boxing Day Sport at Botany

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1869 · page 4

Amongest the multifarious atriaction for Bosing Day we think the athletic sports at Botany will take the highest rank The management have so often placed their proposed amusements before the public that there is but little occasion for us to draw…

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Cricket in Newcastle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1869 · page 2

A match between the Newcastle and the G.N.R. Clubs, was finished on Saturday last, which, it will be soon, resulted in a victory for the G.N.R., in one innings and 61 runs to spsre. The fine innings of Mr Lawronoe, of the…

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The Albert Ground Boxing Day Bports

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1869 · page 4

Lovers of pedestrianism will have a great day on Monday next at the Albert Ground. The committee of the Albert Sport have announced a first-rate day's sport with beral prizes and the athletes have well supported them by entering in large number…

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Cricket in Queensland. (From our Brisbane Correspondent.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1869 · page 4

The cricketers of Brisbane seem determined to multe up for lost time, and are going into matches and practice with something like a proper spirit. Altor remaining in [?]tate of inactivity for so long a time, a reaction lias set In, and the Queen's Parkprusentt…

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The Victorian Turf. Victoria Racing Club. New Year's Day

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1869 · page 4

The following entries were made on Wednesday:- HURDLE RACE a handicap swepstaks of 5 sovs each with 100 sove added About three wiles. Mr T. H. Fellow's chg Kinglake, aged…

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