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Sport, 1893

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Dapto Annual Regatta

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 42

The anneal regatta, under the auspices of the Dapto Regatta Club, was held at Kanashooka Point, Lake Illawarra, on Monday. The weather was…

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The Anniversary Regatta

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 3

From all appearances the Anniversary regatta will be a success. Subscriptions are being received freely, and the energetic committee which has the event in…

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Boxing

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 5

At the Golden Gate Club to-night Tom Simpson, of Surry Hills, and Bob Foran, champion middleweight of North Shore, box for £10 and a trophy presented by the…

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Newcastle Annual Regatta

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 38

The following were the results of the Newcastle Annual Regatta, held on New Year's Day, and which, in spite of the unfavorable weather, was well attended. The steamer Namoi was flagship for the occasion:…

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ATHLETICS. Cricket Gossip

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 40

When the hard-and-fast laws of the printing press end of journalism generally compelled us to send our former issue oat upon the worm the forty-ninth interco-lonial match between New South Wales and…

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Newcastle Annual Regatta. Newcastle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 42

In spite of the unpropitious state of the weather last Monday, the committee decided to hold the anneal regatta in accordance with the custom of 30 years. The Newcastle and H. R. S.S. Co…

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Football

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 41

Preston North End received a decided defeat from Aston Villa a few weeks ago. The following were the teams:—Aston Villa: Roberts (goal), Stokes and Evans (backs). Brown, J. Cowan, and Campbell…

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Christmas Racing

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 35

The summer meetings are always popular with New South Welshmen, and those that have just joined the past hare been deservedly so, for taken right through the racing was of an enjoyable…

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Cricket

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 35
Also in The Daily Telegraph, Illustrated Sydney News, The Sydney Morning Herald, Evening News

ROCKLEY.-1. A man may be fairly given out leg before wicket if the bowler bowls round the wicket. The question has been asked us several times. When considering the subject of break-bowling and leg before…

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The Boxing Day Boating Fatality

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 24

The sad occurrence on last Boxing Day, by which seven lives were lost close to the Heads of Sydney Harbour, has once again directed public attention to the danger of hiring sail-boats to persons who are…

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The Cricket Match

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 5

AN intercolonial cricket match was commenced at noon to-day on the Association Cricket Ground, the opposing sides being New South Wales and South Australia…

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Belmore Park Picnic Races

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 7

Belmore Park presented a lively appearance on New Year's Day, whon about six hundred persons congregated to participate in the day's sport provided at that…

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The Intercolonial Cricket Match

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 4

The fifth cricket match between representative elevens from this colony and South Australia is to begin on the Association Cricket Ground at noon to-day. In the…

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RACING. Answers to Correspondents. The Turf

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 35

S. L.—Cecil Parker. GEORGE.—Mr. William O'Brien was proprietor of Tattersail's Hotel at that time. E. N. T. (Glen Innes).—Maltese Cross (imp.), by Oxford…

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Dresses at the Randwick Races

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 28

On Monday the muster of ladies was very much larger than on Saturday. The unreserved part of the stand was crowded, aud on the members' stand the attendance was numerous, although on neither…

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V.R.C. Races. JANUARY 2

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 37

NORMANBY STAKES, a sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 2 ft, with 400 added; second horse to receivo 80 and the third 40 sovs out of the stake. 5 furlongs. Hon. W. A. Long ns br or b f Gloria, 2yra, 8st…

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