Cricket
There is great activity in the cricket field, on the 9th June, after three days' play, Gloucestershire beat Surrey by 10 wickets. The three Graces were in the winning team, but more…
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Coursing—running Off the Tie
Now that coursing has become acclimatised in New South Wales as a pastime, and gives fair promise of being very popular among gentlemen sportsmen, the sight depicted in our illustration may be frequently seen at the "meets" of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Hawkesbury Races. Second Day
A finer day than Saturday for out door amucements could hardly be imagined, for without the intense cold of Friday, there was a placement breeze which just sufficed to present old Sol from making things uncernfortably warm. Again ther…
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The forty-second contest between the University of Oxford and Cambridge commenced on Monday, June 26, at Lord's, in the presence of about 15,000 spectators. The scene has so often been described…
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Saturday was quite a field day for that promising force the Artillery and Public School Cadet Corps, as a roued of suitable sports was got up for them, and drew together in beneficial rivalry nearly every member of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Balmain Regatta of 1876
A meeting for making arrangements for the annual regatta at Balmain on the 9th November, took place at the School of Arta last evening and was largely attended, Captain Broomfield presiding. A general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Balmain Regatta of 1876
A meeting for makins arrangements for the annual regatta at Balmain on the 9th November, took place at the School of Arts on Wednesday evening, and was largely attended, Captain Broomfield presiding. A general committee was…
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The following are the winners of the several events at the above races, which took place on Friday and Saturday last. FRIDAY…
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THERE appears to have been quite a ferment in cricket circles throughout the Clarence and Richmond River districts over a match between the representative teams, and quite as much importance seemed to be attached to it…
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It may not be uninteresting to the lovers of cricket to be reminded of a novel match, which was played in May, 1827, for a considerable sum, on Harefield Common, near Kicksmansworth. The match was…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Football. Match to Come
WALLAROO v. King School (1st fifteens), Parramatta, August 26th. On Saturday last the Wallaroo and Waratah grounds on Moore Park were both occupied with matches. At the far…
Continued on Trove, page 278 →Sydney Hunt Club Races
From their first establishment, these single days' racing have proved very useful to owners of all sorts of jumping horses, as well as to flat races of the [?] and third [?] that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cricket. the Coming Season
ALTHOUGH the football season is not fairly out and the gentlemen of prismatic colours still madly pursue the leather oval on Moore Park and elsewhere, signs of the advent of the coming cricket season are not wanting in the metropolis…
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THE fifth meeting of the Maitland Amateur Athletic Club took place on the Albion Ground, West Maitland, on Saturday afternoon last, and proved (we learn from the Mercury) a decided success in point of attendance and interesting…
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WARATAH FIRST FIFTEEN V. ALBION FIRST FITTEEN OF MAITLAND.— On Saturday last, August 6 the first fifteen of the [?] Football Club, so well known in sydney, paid a visit to West Mainland to try conclusions with the Albions…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Cricket. Country Cricket
THERE seems to be little doubt that the provincial clubs intend to make an early start this season, but, with the exception of the match reported last weak, there have not yet been any contests of note. It appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 311 →Melbourne Football
MELBOURNE v. CARLTON.—"Nomad," in last week's Leader, says:—The new ground of the Carlton Club is a great success, and when it shall have been sown with English grass and a mound put round for the convenience…
Continued on Trove, page 309 →Tomorrows Races
It isn't an easy matter telling what will win The Shorts, with which to-morrow' business opens; but as it's not likely they will crush out Eros and Dilemma, I shall go for these two to be in front at the finish, taking my choice between the…
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