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Sport, 1875

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Cricket

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 685
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

VICTORIA CRICKET CLUB.—A match was placed on Saturday last with the Viceroy C. C., which resulted in a victory for the Victorias, with 23 runs to spare. The same club played a match with the Milson's Point Cricket Club,…

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Football. GOULBURN V. WALLABOO.—1ST [?]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 30

IN compliance with a promise made on the occasion of the visit of the Wallaroo team to Goulburn last year, the Goulburn men met their metropolitan rivals on the Parramatta Park last Monday, the 24th instant,…

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Country and Mining News. [From Our Correspondents.] Gosford Regatta. May 25th

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 34

Acccording to advertisement, our Annual Regatta, came off on Monday 24th and was a great success. The weither was line and the attendance large The all comers race single sculls was won by W. Beattle, F Bayleps, 2nd. The youth's…

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Albert Ground Athletic Sports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 30

NOTWITHSTANDING the various counter attractions on Queen's Birthday, the Albort Ground had a very large attendance to witness the good programme of sports which had been got up by the committee. The…

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Sydney Amateur Athletic Club

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 30

THE third annual meeting of this club was held at the Exchange Hotel, on Wednesday evening, and a fair number of members attended to hear the secretary's report and treasurer's balance-sheet for the past year…

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Clarence River Annual Regatta. (From the Clarence River Examiner, May 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 May 1875 · page 3

HER Majesty's natal day was duly celebrated in Grafton by the annual meeting of the Clarence River Regatta Club which came off with great eclat yesterday, and upon which occasion a large number of boating athletes put in an…

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Cricket

Evening News · Tuesday 1 June 1875 · page 3

LORNE C.C.FESTIVAL.—The members of the dorne Cricket Club celebrated their first anniversary on Wednesday evening last, at the Massosics Hall—the dinner being served by Mr. Hodglies, the proprietor of the hotel. At 8 o'clock covers…

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The All-comers Race at the Grafton Regatta

Evening News · Thursday 3 June 1875 · page 2

The following is an account of the race between Laycock, Solomon, and Rush, at the later Grafton regatta :— A splendid start was made, Laycock jumping away…

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Clarence River Annual Regatta

Evening News · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 5
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

HER Majesty's natal day was duly celebrated in Gratton by the annual meeting of the Clarence River Regatta Club, which came off with great [?] and upon which occasion a large number of boating…

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Aquatics. Clarence River Annual Regatta

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 718

H[?] Majesty's natal day was duly celebrated in Grafton by the annual meeting of the Clarence River Regatta Club which came off with great eclat yesterday, and upon which occasion a large number of boating athletes pat in an…

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Cricket

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 31

EXCELSIOR C. O. V. PERSEVERANCE C. C.—A friendly game of cricket was played at Dalmain on the 34th of May, between these two clubs, which resulted in an easy victory for the former, with 5 wickets and 1 run to spare, The…

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Bathurst Spring Races

Evening News · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 4

We lean from a Bathurst sporting correspondent that Mr. John Lee, of Bylong, with his well-known unostentatious liberality, supplemented the hundred and fifty sovereigns given by the B. J. C., as…

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Cricket. Answer to Correspondent

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 717

"ROUND-ARM" (Camden) asks:—"A cricket match is played between two clubs—say A and B. A goes in first and scores 165; B goes in and makes 49. Can B compel (according to the rales of cricket) A to go in again, B not…

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Queensland Turf Club Annual Races. [By Our Special Correspondent.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 29

PATRO, His Excellency W. W. Cairns, C.M.G.; president, Sir M. C. O'Connell; vice-president, his Honor Judge Lutwyche; judge, Hon. D. F. Roberts, stewards, Hon. F. H. Hart, Walter Scott, Esq., M.L.A., A. H. Palmer, Esq.,…

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Cricket

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 June 1875 · page 750

THE Union C. C, of North Willoughby, played the concluding match of the season on the Queen's Birthday with an eleven, a Sydney team, from the firm of Messrs. Hilton and Co. The Sydney team arrived at an early hour in the…

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Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 June 1875 · page 9

SIR,—In the published list of past University Boat Races, it is shown that Oxford has now won seventeen, and Cambridge fifteen races. Writers, as a rule, however, forget to state that the first of these races, in 1829, was over a 2-mile course at…

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Football

Evening News · Monday 14 June 1875 · page 2

WALLAROO v. BALMAIN.—The cricket season has now gone out, and football is all the cry. The principal match, as far as football has gone this season, was played on Saturday last, at Moore Park, between…

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Football

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 30

WALLAROO FOOTBALL CLUB. — Engagements for season:— Jane 19. King's school (past and present), Parramatta 26. Club Scratch Match, Moore Park…

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