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Sport, 1907

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Racing at Manly

Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 6

Motor boats have a race on the programme of the Manly Regatta next Satur- day, and several club members intend go[?] and others to take…

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Cycling Saturday's Racing

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 3

Five road paces are set down for decision on Saturday afternoon. Two are over the Homebush course, a similar number over the Bunnerong course, and the remaining event…

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Christmas Cricket

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 11

The season of Christmas cricket will end to-day, when the Teachers play a return match at Rushcutters' Bay against Mr. Macarthur's team. The series of matches has been eminently enjoyable, and the country teachers…

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Cricket Chips

Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 10

Though Control Cumberland were beaten by North Sydney in 1904-5 and 1905-6, the results of all matches for the premiership played by these clubs are much in favor of…

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Sailing. Manly Regatta. Sydney Club 18-Footers Championship

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 5

The breeze on Saturday last was light, from anywhere between E.S.E. and S.S.E. The tide was flooding throughout the afternoon…

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Golf Scottish Octogenarian Foursome

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 3

In sp[?] of b[?]y cold weather (says the London "Times" of December [?]), the four Scottish octogenarian golfers, who recently arranged a foursome, as a sequel to a…

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Racing on Off Days

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 1

Were South Coast or other country racing dubs within a fairly short range of Sydney to hold their meetings on other days than Wednesdays and Saturdays, they could…

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Racing in the Argentine

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 3

In no country in the world has racing made such gigantic strides within the past decade as in the Argentine. At one of the recent meetings held there, the…

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Queensland Cricket Notes

Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 10

Those responsible for the government of Queensland cricket are always keenly alive to the fact that something is wanting in connection with our cricket, which…

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Victorian Cricket Notes

Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 10

W. W. Armstrong attended the second meeting of the V.C.A. Executive, held to enquire into the farcical happenings of the last match against S.A. The president…

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Boxing. Featherweight Championship. Thorn Defeats Frost

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 14

There was a crowded house at the Gaiety Athletic-hall last night, when Charlie Frost, of Sydney, and Frank Thorn, of West Australia, faced each other to contend for the featherweight supremacy of the continent. Both,…

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Boxing. Lightweight Championship. Thorn Beats Frost

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

Frank Thorn, of West Australia, and Charles Frost, of Sydney, contested the best of 20 rounds at the Gaiety Club last night for the lightweight championship of Australia, before…

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Golf. Saturday's Play. Golf Politics-Dialect of the Game—A Suggested Tournament

Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 4

The tale of Saturday's golf is soon told. At the A.G.C. a win in the mixed foursomes was secured by a pair of Seasoned players, Mr. A. L. Mullins and Mrs…

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Racing in Victoria. Autumn Nominations

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 180

V.A.T.C. Oakleigh Plate of £1150, 5½f.—Lady; Florence, Macpherson, Splash, Ditty, Ellis, Tom Moore, Munus, Iliad, Lady Diffidence, Elourar, Kanowna, Winchester, Grenadier, Ebullition, Red Streak, True Scot,…

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The Tirranna Picnic Races

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 174

The most successful meeting ever held in connection with the Tirranna Race Club took place, as usual, on the second Thursday in January at the club's new racecourse. The day…

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Boxing Night Incident. Large Cargo From India

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 6

At the Water Police Court on Tuesday, the hearing was completed of a case against Sydney James Ryan, 34, athlete, who was charged with using indecent language in Cleveland-street, Redfern, on December 26, and with Union Steamship Company's steamer Aparima arrived at Fiji on January 7 from Calcutta and Singapore, with a tremendous cargo, having over 11,000 tons aboard. Besides this weight…

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The Game of Cricket

Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 10

THE return match New south Wales v. Victoria will be started at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday next. The Victorian selectors have chosen the…

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Answers to Correspondents. CRICKET

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 44

R. F. (Manildra)—The first English Eleven came to Australia in 1862. and the team of aboriginals went from Australia to England in 1868. The Adelaide Derby winner, Kismet, who has…

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Football. Australian Team for England

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 14

The governing body of the New South Wales Rugby Union is in receipt of a communication from the English Union inviting an Australian team to visit Great Britain for the season of 1908. The suggestion, in the first…

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Racing in General. Candelo Turf Club

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 48

held a race meeting on January 9 which was well attended, and good sport provided. There were four starters for the Opening Handicap, which was won by Mr. M. Nash's Merilba, by Iolanthus…

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