Anniversary Regatta
The following programme of events has been decided upon by the Anniversary Regatta Committee as the one to be gone through on January 26:—Rowing Races: Single Sculls, in best and…
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Swimming
The programme of events to be decided at the club's third annual carnival, to be held at Farmer's Woolloomooloo Bay Baths on 16th January, was considered on Monday night, and after discussion…
Continued on Trove, page 94 →The Dapto Regatta
The annual regatta of the Dapto Regatta Club was held on Lake Illawarra on New Year's Day, and proved a great success. The racing all through was excellent, and the large attendance of visitors…
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The great [?] of the week among sporting men has been the? Special Commissioner's report of the battle between Sailor Sharkey and Sob Fitzsimmons in San…
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The Victorian pennant matches will be resumed to-day. A scratch match will be played on Thursday next on the Richmond Green (Melbourne), and at half-past…
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There'll he no Association Carnival this year, the clubs won't stand it. Eastern Sydney will control the Half-Mile. and Eastern Suburbs the One Milo Championships…
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The Christmas and New Year holidays having all passed over, we may expect to see a good roll up for the live inter club matches, programmed to take place this afternoon…
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Intending competitors are reminded that entries for the above regatia close this evening at Myers's. King-street; Marx, Erskine-street; or at the Drummoyne Town Hall. Through the kindness of…
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The New South Wales-Victoria fixture for December, 1896, is now a matter of history, and the mother colony has reduced the difference in favour of Victoria by one. It was generally admitted by…
Continued on Trove, page 91 →Golf Notes
There is little to recount in golf matters at the moment, for, so far as Sydney is concerned, it is a case of quiet practice by players and no competitions. The greens at Bondi, however, have been admirable…
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Boxing Day is not with us, as with our ancestors, so much a day for receiving Christmas boxes (i.e. presents often contained in boxes), as a day for excursions by…
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The first race-meeting held in Sydney came off on October 14, 1810, on Hyde Park, which was then a nice easy distance from "town." It was a three-days meet,…
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The landing of even a moderate slice of Tatteresll's racing sweep by local sportsmen, gives emphasis to the prevalent idea that of all forms of speculation on turf events, the…
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A number of the parishioners of St. Francis', Haymarket, and St. Peter's, Surry Hills, journeyed to Moore Park on Friday afternoon to witness the annual cricket…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Swimming. the Golden Gate Swim
One John Coughlin, an American crack swimmer, attempted, early in November, the feat of swimming the Golden Gate, San Francisco, so successfully performed a month or two before by Charles Cavill, of Australia…
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