DOOLEY and Costello are working steadily at their training for their meeting on 24th buy at the Gaiety Theatre. Martin was in town to witness the Flood-Clark contest on ...
Article : 1,547 wordsBRIGHTON, England, 8th April, 1892.-- DEAR SPORTSMAN,--With much pleasure I now send you some news from the old country, or, as we all call it, home. ...
Article : 672 wordsFOR some time past negotiations have been proceeding for a match between Abe Willis and Kipper Peekes. The former, however, had no cacker at anything above 6st, while ...
Article : 490 wordsIn may not, perhaps be generally known to members that the two years during which Mr. W. Watson was to hold the Dougharty trophy for heavy-weight amateur boxers ...
Article : 906 wordsWE still continue to have plenty of contests here; but, as I remarked in a previous letter, they are sot of a high rate of fistic excellence. Harris Dally fought Deacon ...
Article : 4,396 wordsMR. JOHN BON has received a letter from Duncan C. Ross. In consonance with a request to that effect Mr. Don has handed us the letter, as also a cutting from the Madras ...
Article : 327 wordsSUBJECT to appointment. Jack Perryman was at THE Sportsman office last Thursday morning at 11 o'clock, but Messrs. Lee and Hogan did not turn up. After waiting an ...
Article : 152 wordsBOXING over this way has been very dull for a long time. Harry Pearce came about two weeks ago, in company with Jim Baxter, the Tasmanian light-weight, but things are ...
Article : 462 wordsTHERE was a fair attendance of members on Saturday night at Footscray Athletic Hall. A match had been arranged between A Doberty and Barrass, but Barrass failed ...
Article : 106 wordsCAPITAL entries hare, so far, been received for the pedestrian events at the National Carnival at the Exhibition on Queen's Birthday. Nominations have been extended, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsANTONIO PIERRI has challenged Tom Connors to wrestle Greeco-Roman for £100. Hibberd and Monro have been matched for the Fifty Miles Walking Championship and ...
Article : 842 wordsWE have letters m our rack for:--Messrs. W. Williams, Martin Costello, David Stuart, J. M'Pherson, Donald Dinnie, D. R. Hay, F. Preston, J. Kernschenong, and G. Bailey. ...
Article : 30 wordsFURTHER action has been taken in the matter of Dan Creedon going to Frisco to box Alec Greggains. On Friday a letter went from The Sportsman office to Mr. N. L. ...
Article : 189 wordsWE are very glad to learn from a Western District contemporary that baseball has found some kind of a hook to "catch on " by in the remote town of Terang, also that ...
Article : 605 wordsTHE boxing public of Adelaide will be glad to bear that something definite has been done about getting to business. The owner of the Athletic Hall did not return nntil ...
Article : 193 wordsSir,--In your valuable paper of 29th March you have a letter from G. L. Julius under the above heading. I have refrained from answering same till it was settled ...
Article : 417 wordsMR. REYNOLDS, the Hon. secretary of the Cumberland Athletic Club, is out with the announcement of another amateur boxing competition. This time it is for 8st. 71b. ...
Article : 58 wordsON Saturday last a foot race between J. Butler and G. M'Gowan came off on the local racecourse. The distance was 130yds. This race arose out of a protest which was ...
Article : 106 wordsAN American scientific journal attention to the gymnastic exercise which be derived from the proper use of a stick long and fin in diameter, preferably of ba[?] ...
Article : 163 wordsThe sports committee of the Castlemaine branch, A.N.A., have dismissed the protests against Trinder aud Franks. The prize money is apportioned as follows:--Trinder ...
Article : 34 wordsJIM BURKE(the Queenslander) and W. Bell (the Wimmera champion) boxed at Warrnambool recently. The former was knocked down in one round, and the police ...
Article : 29 wordsNEXT Tuesday night, at the Exhibition, J. Bridges, of Carlton, and H. G. M'Cloud, of Abbotsford, are to run 100yds for £10 a-side. M. A. Conroy has been chosen as ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Tue 17 May 1892, Page 2
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