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Sport, 1890

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Swimming

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

"Australian" writes :--"In reference to the late smimming match for the amateur championship of New South Wales, it it only fair to state that Air. C. Hellings was only just off a sick bed, he having been…

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Boxing

The Australian Star · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 5

The attraction to-morrow night at Foley's Gymnasium is what promises to prove a very exciting contest of the good old-fashioned sort, a match with the mittens to…

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Friday's Sporting Swimming

The Australian Star · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 6

Ernie Cavill, of Sydney, and A. F. Kenny, of Melbourne, have entered for the Open Grand Intercolonial Half-mile Handicap of the Western Swimming Club,…

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Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 5

Mr. H. F. Boyle, manager of the next Australian team to visit England, informs us that Turner and Ferris have been granted leave of absence by the A. J. S. Bank, in order that they may take part in the…

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The South Australian Cricket Team. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 7

The South Australian Cricket team to play against Now South Wales left by the express to-day. They will stay at the Oxford Hotel…

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Amateur Athletic Association. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 3

Sir,—I cannot allow the report of the annual meeting of the Eastern Suburbs A. A. Club (published in to-day's issue) to pass without referring to some of the statements reported…

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Athletics

The Australian Star · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The long-ponding Manly Handicap will be run off this afternoon, the first heat being set to start at 2.30. This evening will see the conclusion of…

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Boxing

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 5

Prior to leaving for America, in company with Mr. L. Foley and Griffo, champion feather-weight, Jim Hall, our boss middleweight, will fight Fitzsimmons, undoubtedly…

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Swimming. Enterprise Swimming Club Championship Meeting

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 320

The annual championship meeting in connection with the above club was held in the Natatorium, Pitt-street, on Wednesday, and was a complete success. The galleries in the building were crowded, among the audience…

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Coursing at Echuca

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 320

Our Echuca and Moama correspondent writes that the Echuca Jockey Club is willing to allow portion, of its course to be formed into a "plumpton," and there is every likelihood of the proposed Northern Coursing…

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Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 9

The first team of cricketers to visit New South Wales from South Australia will arrive by the express to-day, and will be welcomed by the Mayor at the Town Hall at 12.30. The names of the visitors are:— G.Giffen,…

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Lawn Tennis

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 35
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, The Sydney Morning Herald

TJSITNISEE—There is on regulirtion. size.outside the play. ing line; but it is visual to ullowion turf courte 20ft at each.. end, and '12ft at the sides. 'On asphalt or dhipped courts 30ft at each-end, and 15ft at the.sides'should be allowed…

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Cricket Gossip

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 318

The half-hour's play which represented the last day of the intercolonial cricket match with Victoria did not produce any thunderbolt from a clear sky. New South Wales wanted 13 runs in order to secure a…

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RACING. Answers to Correspondents

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 314

A. B. (Kiama).—Gaytime is by Newminster from Pastime, by kelpie from Paradise, by The Barb from Paradigm. H.G.—stamboul is by Newbold from Galatea, by Goldsbrough…

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Gundagai Racing Club. Gundagai

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 9

The Gundagai Racing Club held their annual meeting to-day. It was decided to hold two days' racing on 27th and 28th March, following the Agricultural Show…

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The Turf. Rosehill Racing Club

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 2

The Rosehill February races were favoured with fairly fine weather on Saturday last, and as a consequence the attendance was satisfactory. The late rains had affected the track…

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