Word: australian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English cricketers were successful in their first game against an Australian team, defeating a picked eleven of Victoria, Nov. 19 and 20, in Melbourne, by ten wickets. The English team made 273 and (no wicket down) 1, against 104 and 169. Their second game was concluded Nov. 23 in Sandhurst, and resulted in a draw, the totals being English eleven, 117; Sandhurst...
...manager of the Australian cricket players, who have succeeded in defeating almost all the elevens with whom they have contended, and who are now on their way home, states that their tour has been the greatest as yet undertaken, even surpassing in length the distance travelled by Gregory's team in 1878. They left Melbourne March 17, and are due in Sydney Nov. 16. During the eight months the Australians will have travelled 35,300 miles. The team undertook no fewer than ninety-eight journeys in England and Scotland, making an aggregate of 5,786 miles, and playing in twenty...
...American eighteen were badly defeated by the champion Australian eleven in New York yesterday...
...late Lord Beaconsfield's residence at Hughenden is now occupied by an Australian millionaire named Wilson, whose eldest son is at Eton School. It so happened that Garelon Wilson was among the Eton boys who interfered with the man MacLean when he attempted a few weeks ago to shoot the Queen at Windsor station, and the further interesting fact is made public that he punched the miscreant with his umbrella...
Sydney Clifford, an Australian actor, will appear at the Gaiety in "Othello" and "Richelieu." He will be supported by Miss Edith Stanmore...