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Sport, 1902

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Bowls

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

The Lowland and Waratah Clubs met in a friendly roll up on Saturday afternoon, the former winning by 7 points. Scores : Lowlands, 72; Waratah, 65…

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Hobart Annual Regatta. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

The sixty-fourth Hobart Regatta passed off splendidly to-day. The weather was beautifully fine and cool, and the assemblage was larger than in previous years. The Derwent presented a splendid picture,…

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The Boxing Boom

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 1

THAT the sport of boxing is immensely popular with the public of New South Wales, has often been proved by its frequent recoveries from knock-down blows; and…

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Cricket

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

A match that will create no end of fun is on the tapis. It is proposed that eleven of the Newcastle publicans shall meet a team of Maitland bonifaces between the stumps…

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Swimming. Randwick and Coogee Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 4

The following are the starts for the Randwick and Coogee Club's 54 Yards Members' Handicap, which will be decided this evening at Coogee:— Bardsley, Oxen[?], [?]rkin, Walsh, Condon, 4 seconds;…

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Charters Towers Racing. January. 17, 1002. [?]

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

Since my lost we have man [?] race meetings. The Towers Jockey Club led off with their Summer Meeting on December 26 and 27. The meeting…

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Melbourne Boxing. Fitzroy Amateur Athletic Club. Amateur Competition. Mat Hardy Doad—M'Gowan to Tweedle For £100 Aside. MELBOURNE

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 7

There was a merry hour at the Fitzroy Amateur Athletic Club on Wednesday night, when the 8st 4lb amateur boxing competition was commenced. Carney and Carroll…

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Cricket Notes Australia's Fine Win

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

Australia's win by four wickets in the third Test match at Adelaide, and particularly the batting in the second innings, was estonishiagle fine. At the close of play on…

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Cricket. Pavilion Gossip and Notes

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 6

VICTOR TRUMPER arrived in Sydney on Friday. He has strained the muscles of his [?]ck, and is undergoing a course of massage treatment, which he expects will soon put…

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Queensland. Brisbane, January 26. Tattersall's Races

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

Tattersall's held another meeting on the seaside course at Sandgate yesterday afternoon, but they had not quite their usual luck in the matter of attendance and…

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Cricket Match at Forbes. Forbes

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 7

A team of Grenfell cricketers yesterday played the Forbes club here, and were defeated on the first innings by 34 runs. Farrand, of Forbes, won the trophy bat given…

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Swimming. Enterprise Carnival Cavill 880yds Champion. World's Record Broken. Fixture for Next

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 7

Rockdale Carnival, 500yds State Championship. THE ENTERPRISE Carnival was held on Saturday afternoon last, and a good number of spectators, including a fair sprinkling of…

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Among the Little 'Uns. Notes on the Week's Racing. Catches at Kensington

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 5

THERE was nothing out of the ordinary at the Kensington Racing Club's meeting of last Wednesday. In connection with the Thirteen-three Handicap, Black Spot, with…

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Cricket. Victoria v.N.S. Wales. Worrall Scores a Century. Third Day

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

The Sydney Cricket Ground presented rather a deserted appearance yesterday when the interstate match, Victoria v. New South Wales, was continued. Fine, cool weather prevailed,…

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Sailing Notes the Anniversary Regatta. Unpropitious Weather Conditions. Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron—Gascoigne Cup—Petrel a Leg-in. Sydney Flying Squadron 18-footors' Championship—Won by Donnelly after a Fine Struggle for Supremacy

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 4

ANNIVERSARY REGATTA, 1902, cannot be described as having been a success. That the committee had the temerity to hold it at all, under the circumstance…

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Professional Athletics. February

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 6

12—Shepparion (vic.) Soorts Carnival. MARCH. 17—H.A.C.B. St. Patrick's Day Sports, Bundaberg (Q.)…

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New Zealand Athletics. Wellington, January 18

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 6

D'Arey Wentworth, Australaian amateur half-mile champion, returned to Sydney to-day. Quite a notable gathering of top-potchers took place at Lancaster Park on morning last week…

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Athletic Notes Amateur Athletics. Walking and the New Notes and Gossip

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 6

AFFAIRS in the world of amateur athletics are dull just at present, and I know of no meeting ahead prior to that on March, 17, when the annual St. Patrick's…

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Athletics. Amateur Peds. and Pros

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 5

SPORTS meetings were in almost every instance carried out with success in the various State country districts on Anniversary Day. Reports, however, have come…

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Inter-state Cricket Match. New South Wales V. Victoria. Uphill Batting by the Visitors. a Century by Worrall. a Dull Day's Play

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

Yesterday's play at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the inter-State match between Victoria and New South Wales was for the most part uninteresting, and it was only a…

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