Tennis
At a committee meeting of the Rosehill Bowling Club, held on Wednesday last, the letter from the Tennis Club respecting the condition of the courts was considered, and it was…
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Athletic Sports Cricket Gossip
Notice of motion was given on Monday night at a meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association in favour of increasing the number of balk in an over to six instead of four. Comment on the recent so-called junior match would be…
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On Monday last the Glenside (of Glebe point) met and defeated the Gladstone on the former's ground at Glebe Point. Scores: Gladstones, 56 and 49: Glensides, 89 and 90, Gorman 20,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rowing and Sailing Notes. Swimming
This week we publish a portrait of Arthur Wallace, the champion swimmer of the Pacific Slope. He was born in Santa Cruz in 1868. He is 5ft 11½in high, and weighs 200lb. He has won numerous matches in addition to the…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Races at Prospect
On Boxing Day a fairly successful day's racing was held at Prospect, in a paddock adjoining Mr. Manning's hotel. About 600 persons were present, and the meeting,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tattersall's Annual Races
To-day (Saturday) the committee of that thriving institution, Tattersall's Club, hopes to see Randwick packed with, visitors to witness the contests for the opening day of its annual race meeting. Everything…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Our Harbor Picnic on Boxing Day
Well, if people will forsake old castoras in order to be thought genteel, they must put up with the consequences. The extraordinary virtues of "billy tea," although still acknowledged in the bush, have…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Bowls. Some Gossip About the Game
A writer in the ANTIQUARY remarked:—Amid all our recent revival and development of athleticism, gymnastics, and open-air games, there is one game gradually falling more and more into disuse—that pleasant and somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Intercolonial Railway Cricket Club's Reunion
On Tuesday evening a banquet was given by the members of the Railway Cricket Club to their confreres from the Railway Departmental Cricket Club of Victoria, at the Masonic Half, York-street. Host Ferrier provided a…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Sporting. Cricket. Balmain Collingwood V. SYDNEY
B. TEA.—Resulted in an easy win for Colloingwoods. Scores: Sydney's 31, Collingwood's 4 wickets for 106; T. Cohen, 38, H. Hewitt, 36, were the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inter-District Cricket Match at Port Macquarie
The inter-district cricket match, Kerapsey v. Hastings was commenced on Tuesday, in the presence of hundreds of spectators, and many ladies. The match was watched with intense interest. The following are the scores:—Port…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The Intercolonial Cricket Match. Victoria v. New South Wales
The twenty-seventh intercolonial cricket match between Victoria and New South Wales was commenced on Monday on the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The weather was not at all favourable, the mild morning developing at noon into a…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Christmas Race Meetings. Australian Jockey Club Races. Monday, December 27
Favored by glorious weather as it was, the Boxing Day meeting of the Australian Jockey Club was a decided success; for notwithstanding the many counter attractions, the attendance at Rand wick was one of…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Cricket. "The battle of Waterloo was won in the Eton playing fields." —Duke of Wellington
Mr. F. M. Lucas, the amateur cricketer, was born in London on February 7, 1860, and, with hardly an exception, no cricketer of late years has so suddenly burst into notoriety as the Sussex amateur, whose portraits…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Katoomba Athletic Sports
On Monday last, we journeyed to Katoomba, to witness a day's sport which was held on the Railway Reserve. The sports did not start until nearly 2 o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Athletic Mems
On Christmas Day a handicap was run off at Malones' Gladstone Grounds Tempe, in the presence of at least 1000 people. Two competitors named Morton and J. Lucas were disqualified for life for not running to win, in the second…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Athletics
That long-looked-for pedestrian event, the Parramatta Grand Handicap, commences to-day on the Woolpack Hotel tracks, and as the acceptances arc big,, and the world's champion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Annual Regatta. Newcastle
The thirty-third annual regatta at Newcastle took place to-day, and proved successful in every respect. The weather was splendid, and the harbour presented a brilliant spectacle, being alive with boats and steamers. The wharves…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cricket
After the players. [?]c., in connection with the intercolonial match had finished satisfying the inner man on Saturday, advantage was taken of the occasion to propose a few appropriate…
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