Athletic Notes
THERE is some talk of a match being made between P. Mehan and Taylor, of Forbes, the winner of the big handicap at the Albert Ground on Anniversary Day. If the match is made, the distance will be 150…
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The Association Cricket Ground
As the time for tho return intercolonial match approaches public intorest in the event is beginning to be awakened, and seeing that the contest will practically inaugurate the now ground, a few words descriptive of this, the latest of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams This Day. The Burrangong Races
YOUNG, Saturday.—The nominations for the Burrangong Handicap closed yesterday. Town Plate has thirty-one entries; Squatters and the Hurdles, eight; T.C. Handicap, thirty. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Young Races. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Young
The entrances for the races on the 14th and 15th March closed last night. Thirty-one horses are nominated for the Town Plate, thirty for the Turf Club Handicap, and eight for the Hurdle race. The weights will be declared on…
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A meeting of the Cricket Association was held Tattertall's Hotel last evening when Mr. W. Goddard was voted to the chair. The meeting was informed that his Excellency the Governor and Lady Robinson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sporting. the Tasmanian Racing Club Meeting. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ho[?]art Town
In the weather remains fine, the Tasmanian Racing Club Meeting will be a great success. Visitors are arriving from all ports of the colony. The Cup is regarded as the most interesting race that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Government Railways. Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Lines. Intercolonial Cricket Match, 22nd, 23rd, and 25th February, 1878
EXCURSION TICKETS at a single fare for the double journey will be issued, at all stations beyond Penrith and Picton, to Sydney, on the 21st, instant, available for return for ten days for distances under 200 miles, and over 200…
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IT has often happened to me to sound the praises of Produce Stakes as a great mainstay of race clubs, and standby of horse-owners; and as this week I have before me the conditions of two such…
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The interest of lovers of cricket is now centred in the ppr oaching Intercolonial match between this colony and Victoria. The team from the latter colony is not considered by any means a good one, while our representatives, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wentworth Boat Club Regatta. January 26
THE first regatta of the Wentworth Boat Club took place on the Murray River on the above date, under very favourable circumstances. Your readers may or may not remember that the W. B.C…
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SINCE my observations of last week on the coming intercolonial contest appeared, a material alteration has taken place in the Victorian, eleven, and one or two important changes have also been made in our practice team. By…
Continued on Trove, page 212 →Cricket. Matches to Come
Intercolonial, February 22,23, 25. Australian Eleven v. Combined Fifteen, March 1, 2, 4…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Sports and Pastimes. Cricket
ON Saturday last a match was played on the P. A. C. U. ground between the 1st Alfreds and the [?] Cricket Club, of Sydney wl[?]el resulted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Illustrations. the Pavilion on the Association Cricket Ground
WE give on the first page of our supplement a view of the new pavilion erected on the Cricket Ground near Moore Park. As the time for the return intercolonial match approaches public interest in the event is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Government Railways. Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Lines. INTERCOLONIAl Cricket Match, 22nd, 23rd, and 25th February, 1878
EXCURSION TICKETS at a single fare for the double journey will be issued at all stations beyond Penrith and Picton, to Sydney, on the 21st instant, available for return for ten days for distances under 200 miles, and over 200…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Athletic Notes
THOUGH the metropolis is never made very famous by matches of any importance, it is very different with the northern districts, for it is there that almost all the important events are brought off. The one…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Woolloomooloo Bay Amateur Regatta
WOOLWOMOOLOO Bay Repatta was once famous for the exciting natured of its yachting and rowing contests, but of late years the enthusiasm for aquatic sports in this locality has quiet died out, and for several seasons past there has been no…
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