ON Friday next the annual race in tow[?]oared string-test gigs between the first [?] of the Public Schools of the colony will be rowed on the Lower Yarra, when crews ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 13 May 1891, Page 2
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