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  2. SPORTSMAN'S NOTE-BOOK.

    TEN invites to-fight, 10 invites to go and get topped, and 500 invites to have drink has been part of the programme since the first issue of THE SPORTSMAN. I've sat in trams. ...

    Article : 167 words
  3. MELBOURNE LE[?]

    The V.R.C. October Rece [?] brought off at Flemington o[?] sple[?] feather and was last [?] the sporting public being very [?] ...

    Article : 2,156 words
  4. KENSINGTON CAPERS.

    For deliberately pulling the pony, Stuff, at Kensington last Wednesday, the jockey, Manly was wiped out for 12 moons,so far, so good ; but do the Kensington crowd ...

    Article : 276 words
  5. THE "SICK AND NEEDY."

    A Newcastle race meeting advertises the " Sick and Needy Handicap " as one of the events of the programme. I knew it would come to it sooner or later, and it's just about ...

    Article : 55 words
  6. THE WILY AFGHAN.

    Jim. Grogan, of the Royal Hotel, Singleton, occasionally promotes a picnic race meeting just to wake up sleepy Singleton from its soporific slumbers. These picnic ...

    Article : 284 words
  7. BONEING THE BOBS.

    The Sportsman is offering a reward for anyone that can point out a single service rendered or a kindly act done by the A.J.C. without obtaining some return for it. ...

    Article : 123 words
  8. FARCICAL HANDICAPS.

    To see, and listen to Daly, Quinton and Co., the handicappers, one would imagine from their egotistical trumpeting they are walking encyclopediss of racing knowledge. ...

    Article : 296 words
  9. A RACING LIBEL SUIT.

    In the County Court, Melbourne, on September 25, before Judge Hamilton and a jury of six, Isaac Bertram Barker, a mine owner and speculator, sued the proprietors ...

    Article : 271 words
  10. HELLFIRE AND HOLY WATER.

    Last week I reminded the owner of the racehorse Holy Water that he had cursed it in christening, and that the name ought to be wiped off the elate. On Thursday ...

    Article : 117 words
  11. SPORT JOTTINGS.

    Regained has broken down. Blues (by Zeno — Goldbust) will win a race. Kenley ran badly at the V.R.C. October ...

    Article : 1,745 words
  12. DALY'S DISPENSATION.

    Next to owning a ring-tail, sporting good horse, the beat thing is to own a pretty good one, and know how to approach the handicapper with an argument that convinces ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. GRAFTING ON THE GRAVEL.

    The A.J.C. has decided to put gravel on that portion of the Randwick paddock where the Tommies graft. It is asserted that the Tommies are so hot they scorch ...

    Article : 108 words
  14. BERTIE'S BREECHES.

    If I can only keep out of the hospital until the 20th inst. I hope to be present at; Randwick to see the Sydney Hunt Club Cup raced for. I dearly love to seethe amateurs ...

    Article : 129 words
  15. UNDER THE LAP.

    The man in the straight asserts that Chisholm, an A.J.C. committeeman, is very much interested in the pony Vernon. Sorely this must be rank blasphemy, for the ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. TROUBLE BREWING.

    If starter Jack Hegarty continues making such horrid bad starts whenever any of Richards' hones are competing, people will get crow and say rude things. Farther, it ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. BONUS BETS.

    Book making is fast being reduced to a fine art as regards angling for custom. At one establishment you are handed a bonus packet of tasty tea whenever you do in a ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. DURHAM'S DOSE.

    When Durham had to win at Canterbury last Saturday, there was not bob on him, and the stable looked as if someone had shouted a dose of salts all round for them. ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. WHO DID IT ?

    " Knock out all advertisements and only insert reading matter in the first issue," was the chiefs order hurled through the speaking tube, with force enough to crack the ear ...

    Article : 149 words
  20. PAVTEN'S PRANKS.

    Trainer Tom Payten has been made a J.P., and it now qualified to sit on the Bench, look wise and deal out stouch to the cove in the dock. If ever be makes it ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. TALE TELLERS.

    There are couple of well-dressed theives who daily frequency sporting reports and are making an easy but dirty living by tale telling to barmaids servant girls and ...

    Article : 154 words
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