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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The weather was very hot, but fine, for the opening day of the Newcastle meeting. The attendance was excellent, the metropolis being especially well represented by all classes. The course was in good…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following is a complete list of the sailing and rowing races to be contested at the Pyrmont Regatta, to be held February 27, on the waters of Johnston's Bay. The programme comprises nine rowing races and five…
Continued on Trove, page 344 →The annual meeting of the Cootamundra Coursing Club was held on Wednesday night, Mr. H. A. O'Donnell in the chair, when a satisfactory report and a credit balance-sheet for the past year were read and adopted. The officers for…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →After a good deal of newspaper controversy, the swimming match for the championship of New South Wales, is likely to be settled between Corbett and Cavill. The distance will be 1000 yards; and the match, it is said, will…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Mr. J. Crowley has been appointed judge by the Goulburn Coursing Club for the next season. At a recent meeting of the Berrima District Coursing Club, W. Grogan, the well-known dog trainer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 342 →Mr. Taylor, one of the passengers by the ship Margaret Galbraith, which recently arrived at Dunpdin, is a well-known football plaver. He held the position of captain of the Queen's Park Club in Glasgow, and is spoken of as a…
Continued on Trove, page 343 →Cricket asks—What is the highest individual score ever made in England, and by whom?—W. N. Roe, 415, not out. Lithgow asks—The bowler bowled a ball not in a straight line with the wicket with a break, and the batsman, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →On Tuesday, January 26, the members of the newlyformed St. Leonards Lawn Tennis Club held a single handicap tournament on their ground, in Falcon-street. The play shown was of an exceedingly interesting nature,…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →A MATCH that excited a good deal of interest and friendly rivalry was played on the Rosehill green on Tuesday afternoon last, between the senior and junior rinks captained by Messrs. S…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The official opening of the Glebe Bowling Club took place on Saturday afternoon, and the green, which ig situated upon a portion of Wentworth. Park, was visited by a number of gentlemen more or less identified with…
Continued on Trove, page 343 →ADELONG, Friday.—The noes on Thursday were well attended. The racing was good and the fields were large. Mr. Fitzgerald's Lady Angler won the principal handicap, but was disqualified for having gone inside a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANOTHER racing accident, similar to that which occurred in the Caulfield Cup last October, happened at Moonee Valley, Victoria, on Saturday afternoon. Ten horses started for the La Rose…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →It was in the Domain on Saturday among the onlookers watching the match between the Warwick and Carlton clubs, that I was forcibly struck with the inferiority of the bowling of the Carltons. For the first time during the…
Continued on Trove, page 342 →The game of lawn tennis, viewed and judged by spectators who know nothing whatever about it, apparently appears a very simple and childish amusement, for the inexperienced are the only ones who docry it as simple and…
Continued on Trove, page 342 →On Saturday afternoon the third round of the matches for the captaincy of the club was played off, the two winners in the second round, C. W. Cropper and R. D. Fitzgerald, meeting, to decide who should challenge W. J…
Continued on Trove, page 342 →Since the conclusion of the intercolonial match there is nothing new in cricket (with the exception of a few club matches) to chronicle. The cup match played last Saturday at the Association Ground failed to attract even a…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The promoter of the Sir Joseph Banks Handicap has every reason to be satisfied with the response given by the pedestrians of the colony and elsewhere to his sixth venture. The entry, which is the largest yet made, has not…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Harry Chivers and Joe Jobling have been matched to run 100 yards at Wallsend on Feb. 20 tor £25 a-side. The One-mile Bicycle Championship of New Zealand was decided a few days back, when. J. A. Stewart, riding a…
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