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Sport, 1892

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Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 4

The 47th intercolonial match between New South Wales and Victoria was played in Melbourne on the 26th, 28th, 29th, and 30th December, and it was won by Victoria with six wickets to spare…

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Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 5

Parramatta Hospital for In[?]ane defeated Leichhardt by five wickets. Leichhardt, who had a weak team, put up 69, C. Scale scoring 32 not out. Little and Board secured the wickets for the Hospital the…

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Rosehill Races

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 3

The ill-luck, from a weather standpoint, which has pursued race meetings of the Rosehill Club so persistently was to the fore again on Saturday, rain descending in the form of a "Scotch mist," hardly…

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Intercolonial Cricket Match

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 5

The intercolonial cricket match between New South Wales and South Australia was continued on the Association Cricket Ground on Saturday. It was expected that there would be a large attendance to…

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The Boxing World. London, January 10

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 5

Frank P. Slavin has refused to fight James Corbett at New Orleans. The London REFEREE ridicules the idea of Slavin being unprepared to meet John L…

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Boxing in Melbourne. Lightweights and Middleweights. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

There was a fair attendance at the M.A.C. Room on Saturday evening to witness the resumption of the light and middle weight competitions. Messrs. Virgoe and…

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The English Cricket. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

The match between Lord Sheffield's 12 and 16 of South Melbourne Club was resumed at 11.30 a.m. to-day, the conditions of weather and wicket leaving…

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Publicans' Cricket Match. Goulburn

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

In the publicans' cricket match on Friday the heavy-weights won with eight wickets to spare. There were about 300 persons present, and the surplus funds, if any, go to…

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Cricket. The Intercolonial Match. New South Wales v. South Australia

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

The game was commenced at 10 minutes past 12 o'clock on Saturday, the first representatives of South. Australia being Lyons and A. H. Jarvis. a drizzling rain was falling, and the attendance was…

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The Intercolonial Cricket Match. New South Wales V. South Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

The weather on Saturday for the second day of the intercolonial cricket match was about as miserable as could well he imagined. Early in the forenoon a drizzling rain…

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Intercolonial Cricket. New South Wales v. South Australia. Association Ground

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 2

When at just a few minutes after noon the New South Wales team took the field there was a light, drizzling rain falling. It had been raining a little all the morning…

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Athletics

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 3

A cable message says that at last a boxing match has been ratified between Professor Jackson and F. P. Slavin, to take place in England. A letter was received in Sydney a few days ago from the sable…

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Swimming

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 2

Entries for the Waverley Swimming Club's 100 Yards Handicap, to be held on Saturday at the Bronts Baths, will close at the usual places to-morrow, Wednesday. A meeting of the committee will be held…

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Boxing

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 8

Charlie Dunne and Tom Taylor meet this evening in a fight to a finish in the Olympic Club. Both have been training for some weeks past and there should be some hard…

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Bowls

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 8

Our Melbourne correspondent wires :-- The Albert Park Bowling Club, which has now won 24 matches out of 30 this season, beat Camberwell on Saturday with 143…

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American Boxing

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3

BY the American mail, which arrived on Tuesday, we have files up to from which we clip the following items of information :--…

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Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star

The Molbourne University team will arrive by the midday express from Melbourne to-day. They will be met by the members of the Sydney University team, and driven to the Oxford Hotel, where they…

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Melbourne Boxing. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 8

The Melbourne Athletic Club yesterday afternoon received a telegram from Griffo stating that he would be unable to meet Murphy on January 23 on account of illness…

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Moorefield Racing Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3

Appended are the entries for the January rouno[?], which takes place on the 23rd instant:— TRAMWAY HANDICAP, 6 furlongs. 50 yards.—Millie, Charlie, Brightlight,[?]ander, Reversion, Bedtim[?], Si[?]…

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