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  2. SPORTING GOSSIP AND ANECDOTES

    Middlesex Education Authority has agreed to contribute £60 towards the cost of classes in market gardening and carpentry for caddies at Hanger Hill and Slanmore golf links. ...

    Article : 33 words
  3. WHISKY HAVE IT IN "BLACK and WHITE" AND AVOID ARGUMENTS

    Now that we have followed Tom Spring to the highest rung of the ladder which had led him to the championship. It will be our duty to record his two last battles, in the ring. It ...

    Article : 1,453 words
  4. A RESOURCEFUL ANGLER.

    A small boy employed at Jindabyne West Station (N.S.W.) recently noticed a fish rising in a small stream on the run. Taking a buggy whip handle, he attached a piece of string and ...

    Article : 49 words
  5. CRACK SHOT AT EIGHTY-TWO.

    Mr. James Tyler, of Aveley, Essex, who is eighty-two years of age, was challenged to shoot tow rabbits out of three. Accepting the challenge with alacrity the old man bowled over ...

    Article : 40 words
  6. WORKHOUSE BILLIARDS.

    The officers of the Cardiff Workhouse are to be provided with a billiard table. The guardians have adopted a recommendation to provide a billiard table "and other means of recreation" ...

    Article : 54 words
  7. PRINCE OF WALES AS FOOTBALLER.

    The Prince of Wales is more than justifying expectations as a keen all-round sportsman at Oxford. We are told that he runs with his college beagles. cycles up to the golf links twice ...

    Article : 110 words
  8. GAMBLING ON FOOTBALL MATCHES.

    Quoting from the "Westminster Gazette," a clergyman recently said that "a large employer of labor in the North, said the other day that the gambling on football took three times as ...

    Article : 167 words
  9. HEAVY SCORING BY SCHOOLBOY.

    Dacre, a 13-year-old schoolboy of Devonport, Auckland (N.Z.). registered another fine performance recently, when he scored a faultless 175 for the North Shore Fourth Grade team ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. OLDEST CYCLING CLUB IN THE WORLD.

    It will interest many riders of the modern school to know that the Pickwick Bicycle Club has just entered upon its forty-fourth year—that is to say, it was founded as far back as ...

    Article : 97 words
  11. JUST AS GOOD.

    Golf has its surprises, and these do not always come in the actual play. The experience of doing a hole in one is nothing compared to what a friend a ours went through at Manly ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. WELL-KNOWN ACTRESS FEAT.

    Miss Alice Crawford the well-known London Actress, who only joined the impo[?]al Rifle Club three weeks previously, and had never before handled a rifle, won the Silver Cup, which is annually competed for by many members of the Club at the Club Rooms. The picture shows Miss [?] Crawford with the Cup. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
  13. REMARKABLE VETERANS.

    There, are some men, like the late Dr. E. M. Grace, who seem able, like the brook, to "go on for ever." They reckon not by years, but are only as old as they feel. Mr. G. R. ...

    Article : 326 words
  14. LADY BILLIARDISTS.

    A big billiard handicap for ladies is being suggested in London. Since the advent of Miss Ruby Roberts in England the game has made much progress with the fair sex. Already some ...

    Article : 194 words
  15. CALLED THE BET OFF.

    Another grand old typical Briton was Count Squire Osbaideston, the hardest rider and gambler of his day. It was at the Newmarket Craven meeting that he rode up to Sir George ...

    Article : 312 words
  16. ECCENTRICITIES OF CRICKET.

    The chroniclers say that in 1829 James Broadbride threw his bat at a wide ball, and was caught by Mr. Ward, who was standing at point. Twenty-five years later.—batsman struck a ...

    Article : 332 words
  17. PRINCIPAL SPORTING EVENTS OF THE WEEK

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 164 words
  18. QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 words
  19. STORIES OF FAMOUS OLD-TIME JOCKEY.

    One of the greatest of the English cross-country riders of the 'sixties' and 'seventies, and the hero of three Grand Nationals, has just been removed by death in the person of ...

    Article : 553 words
  20. NO SUNDAY GOLF.

    By ninety-four votes to eight-four the members of the Bangor (Wales) Golf Club decided by ballot against allowing golf to be played on Sundays on their course. ...

    Article : 32 words
  21. THE AGILITY OF A. O. JONES.

    Many of our players display remarkable agility in the field, and perform all corts of queer antics to reach the ball (says H. Stunwick). I have not seen a better man in the ...

    Article : 115 words
  22. PROMINENT BOWLERS.

    Undoubtedly the best-known name in the world bowls is that of Mr. Andrew H. Hamilton. S.S.C., of Edinburgh, for he has been secretary and treasurer of the Scottish Bowling ...

    Article : 420 words
  23. FRY AND THE WORMS.

    Hampshire were in and Fry was batting splendidly. The elderly cricket enthusiast, who sat on a bench and watched the game, had been much ...

    Article : 117 words
  24. HOW THE PUSH STROKE WAS BARRED.

    When John Roberts refused to play W. J. Peall if the "spot stroke" was unlimited. It is said that he had something up his sleeve in the way of the "push stroke," which he had been ...

    Article : 438 words
  25. THE GOOD OLD SORT.

    The "Fine Old English Gentleman," whose praise is still sung, was really a grand old man, and the best specimens of him could be found in the hunting field or on the racecourse. ...

    Article : 172 words
  26. MR. CARNEGIE AS A GOLFER.

    Nothing pleases the man of millions better than getting hold of a greenhorn and initiating him into the mysteries of the game. His friend, Frederic Harrison, the eminent writer and ...

    Article : 197 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 196 words
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