The Dumb at Cricket. Applause by Signs
The Australasian Deaf and Dumb Association conference, which was held in Melbourne. concluded with a picnic and cricket match. which were held on Monday on the Brighton ground…
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12,361 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250
Kilpatrick's Stairs Wrecked. Tornado at Cricket Ground
Shortly after 8 o'clock last evening, while the scuther[?]y buster was at its height, there was an ominous creaking of timbers at the Cricket Ground, and, another strong gush coming along,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cricket and Singing. a Famous Tenor's Enthusiasm
Mr. H. N. Southwell, who returned by the Melbourne express this morning, reports that Mr. John McCormaclc, being a great cricket, enthusiast, remained in Melbourne to witness…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →What It Costs to Run a Football Club
Some people seeing the enormous crowds who [?]ay to watch League games throughout the country every Saturday, says an English paper, assert that the prominent players who draw the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Swimming. Next Saturday's Carnival. Prospects of the Championships. Sydney's Team for New Zealand
More important than ever before, the State championship carnivals, to be started next Saturday, and continued on the following Wednesday and Saturday, will provide the most…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Old-time Boxing Manager. "Parson Davies." How He Got His Sobriquet
An American friend writes:—Charles E. (Parson) Eavies, the dean of American fight managers, is sojourning at his old home In Belfast, Ireland where he is said…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cricket. Will Best Side Go? Difference of Opinion
According to reports tram Melbourne serious trouble is likely to occur between leading cricketers and the Board of Control, is connection with some of the arrangements made for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Golf Gossip. Doings on the Courses. Play During the Holiday Season
The counter-attractions of Boxing Day and the fact that many members of different clubs are holiday-making doubtless accounted for the somewhat deserted condition of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Southern Queensland. Brisbane, December 31. Q.T.C. RACES
The Queensland Turf Club got through splendidly with the first part of Its second Summer meeting on Boxing Day. On Tuesday last the Totalisator takings ran to £8700, considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inter-state Cricket. South Australia V. New South Wales
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The selectors, Messrs. Hill Dolling, and Gehrs, have chosen the following players to represent South Australia in the match against New South Wales, beginning…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Swimming. State Carnivals. Next Saturday. 100 Yards Championship. 880 Yards Championship. Association. the State Championships
Next Saturday the State Carnivals will claim the attention of amateurs, but. strange to say despite the boom in swimming, the big meetings are not as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unowned 'Mid Applause. Tragedy at Lyttelton Regatta. Seaman Dived for His Hat. Crowd Thought It Was a Comic Interlude
CHRISTCHURCH (N.Z.), Tuesday.--A tragedy occurred at Lyttelton Regatta yesterday. A ship's boat, containing ten seamen and firemen was passing near the [?]nd of one of tthe…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Football. Northern Union Tourists in England. (By C. H; Ford, Manager of the Team.) Barrow-in-furness, Nov. 25. Choice Football at Barrow
For the nineteenth match of the tour we arrived in this busy little town about eleven o'clock this morning. We were driven to Ful-ness Abbey, an historic edifice of the eleventh…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"Australasian Traveller" Cricket Shield. to Remain in New South Wales
The "Australasian Traveller" cricket shield competition, which was promoted by the official organ of the federated Association of "men of the road," has been lost and won. Five years…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sporting Sparks. Ascot Next 1st Race. RACES. Saturday 2 p.m
The punter at the races not Infrequently suffers the experience of the cricketer by coming off the field stumped. The effect of the sun on the limbs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Football. Australasian Northern Union Team in England. Halifax Beaten 23 to 3
The Australasian team beat Halifax on BoxIng Day, In the presence of 12,000 people. The weather In the first hah was fine, but after the Interval there was heavy rain. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Who Are They? Commercial Men and the Fight. Chamber of Commerce President. Knows No Anti-boxing Crusade
It had been reported that a movement has inaugurated in Sydney commercial with the object of testing the legality of boxing contests at Sydney, particularly as regards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Cycle Race. Excitement at Cricket Ground. Grenda Ahead at 1Ooo Miles
The six days' cycling carnival which is being held at the Sydney Cricket Ground provided a good deal of excitement last night. The southerly which happened along about 8 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →National Tennis. Great Players in Action Methods Criticisfd. New Zealand Championship. (From Our Own Correspondent at Christchurch.)
A tournament in New Zealand is conducted on quite different lines from what we are used to in Sydney, and suffers by comparison. In some degree the system is inevitable. In…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Boxing Jow the Game Wags the American. "Tom" S. Andrews' Interesting Letter. Tells of Things and Those Who Did, and Are Doing Them
Writing to me by the last American mall, Mr. Tom. Andrews, editor of the "Evening Wisconcin," Milwaukee, serves up an interesting dish of cris news. thus:-…
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