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Sydney · Sport

Sport, 1871

328 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 17

Tattersall's Club Races

Evening News · Monday 2 January 1871 · page 2

THIS popular annual meeting took place to-day under not the most favourable auspices as to weather, though the gates and booths had fetched good prices, and fine drying wind yesterday had put the running-ground in…

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Tattersall's Annual Races

Evening News · Tuesday 3 January 1871 · page 2
Also in Empire

TATTERSALL'S CLUB held their regular New Year's Day meeting yesterday, under the pressure of not a few difficulties, resulting from a continuation of bad weather and counter attractions, of which latter the…

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Sydney and Melbourne Universities' Cricket Match

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1871 · page 2

This match commenced on Saturday, the 24th December, was continuued on the following Monday, and finished on the 27th. The Australasian says:—Fifty years hence probably the…

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Candelo Annual Races. Monday, December 26

Evening News · Friday 6 January 1871 · page 4

FOR real sport the country race meetings stand unequalled. To those who have experienced the pleasures and evils of both, the country races must always be preferable. Hilarity and genuine social…

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Waterview Bay Regatta

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 32

This local regatta was fixed for the 17th December, but some more important event occurring on that day, the committee postponed it until the subsequent Saturday, the 24th, which proved a wet afternoon, as also did the…

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Cricket and Other Notes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 30

IT is almost time I had another word to say touching things that are done on foot, seeing that we have had stirring times indeed during what are usually called "the holidays," furnishing a larger quantum, of food…

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Sheet-of-Bark Races. [From a Correspondent.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 30

THE Sheet-of-Bark races came off on Monday, the 26th December. The attendance was very good, considering there was another meeting coming off on the same day. But the celebreties all put in an appearance at the…

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Candelo Annual Races. [From Our Correspondent]. Monday, December 26

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 29

FOR real sport the country race meetings stand unequalled. To those who have experienced the pleasures and evils of both, the country races must always be preferable. Hilarity and genuine social…

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Candelo Annual Races [From Our Correspondent]. Monday, December 26

Empire · Monday 9 January 1871 · page 3

FOR real sport the country race meetings stand unequalled. To those who have experienced the pleasures and evils of both, the country races must always be preferable. Hilarity and genuine social…

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Gulgong Races

Evening News · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 2

THE marden race meeting of this rising gold-field took place on Monday and Tuesday, the 2nd and 3rd January. Owing to the extraordinary wet weather that has lately prevailed it was feared that the races would have…

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Cricket and other Notes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 27

DOUBTLESS we have large reason to blow about our cricket, and as far as I'm concerned it seems that those who have the largest of all large reasons for doing the wind instrument business are the individual aspirants…

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Gulgong Races. [From Our Correspondent.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 26

THE maiden race meeting of this rising gold-field took place on Monday and Tuesday, the 2nd and 3rd January. Owing to the extraordinary wet weather that has lately prevailed it was feared that the races would have…

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Gulgong Races. [From Our Correspondent.]

Empire · Monday 16 January 1871 · page 3

THE maiden race meeting of this rising gold-field took place on Monday and Tuesday, the 2nd and 3rd January. Owing to the extraordinary wet weather that has lately prevailed it was feared that the races would have…

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Canowindra Races

Evening News · Friday 20 January 1871 · page 4

THIS meeting came off on the 3rd and 4th instant, under favourable enough auspices; but, as a general rule, all that district, including Canowindra, Carcoar, and Grenfell, is good for getting up races. On the…

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Canowindra Races

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 January 1871 · page 26

THIS meeting came off on the 3rd and 4th instant, under favourable enough auspices; but, as a general rule, all that district, including Canowindra, Carcoar, and Grenfell, is good for getting up races. On the…

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The Anniversary Regatta

Empire · Friday 27 January 1871 · page 2

MILD, auspicious, and agreeable weather [?]hared in the anniversay celebration of aquatic sports; and the early rush made to all points, promontories, headlands, and blocks of elevated ground commanding a view of…

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Anniversary Day. the Regatta

Evening News · Friday 27 January 1871 · page 2

Mild, auspicious, and agreeable weather ushered in the anniversay celebration of aquatic sports; and the early rush made to all points, promoatories, headlands, and blocks of elevated ground commanding a view of…

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The Regatta

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 5

Mild, auspicious, and agreeable weather ushered in tho anniversay celebration of aquatic sports; and the early rush made to all points, promontories, headlands, and blocks of elevated ground commanding a view of…

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Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 7

UNIVERSITY V. AL[?]ERTS.—A match which was commenced on the 14th instant between eleven of the University Club and eleven of the Alberts was proceeded with on the 21st. The scores, so far as they went on the…

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