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  2. GLORY AND GAMBLE.

    [?] O'Connor and other eminent authorities tell us that it one time all roads lad to Rome. In Australia, at this time of the year, all roads lead to Melbourne, Even[?] the religions push and excuse of going ...

    Article : 208 words
  3. HOW THE FAVORITE BEAT US.

    A beauty, The Titan, a, ripping all-right un, As sound in the wind and as clean in the limb As ever was bitted, and, properly' fitted, No horse of his time was a patch upon him ! ...

    Article : 746 words
  4. SNIFFING FOR "STIFFUNS."

    After Andora had won the High Weight Handicap. the A.J.C Committee held as inquiry into his running. The ostenaible reason of the inquiry m thai Andora had nm badly many days before at Nanago, or ...

    Article : 116 words
  5. IMPORTANT NOTICE.

    [?] of THE SPORTSMAN finds that the present [?] of the paper will not permit of full justice being [?] at cace to readers and advertisers. He has [?] to make a choice between advertise. ...

    Article : 82 words
  6. HARD KNOCKS FOR KNOX.

    In the Members Handicap, Australian Colours was left at the post in a most peculiar manner, and W. P. Crick, with blood is hit eyes, ambled op to Adrian Knox, the King Gee of the A.J.C, and said, "I ...

    Article : 224 words
  7. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    "Sportsman" "Said "Hotspur" our [?] nesday next, bar plague or police, out [?] first issue of THE SYDNEY S[?] to slow the following in your knowledge ...

    Article : 363 words
  8. TROUBLES OF TRAINERS.

    Of the many classes of Sydneyites likely to sojourn in Melbourne during the next month none will have a more anxious time than the horse-trainers. With their feet off their native heath, as It wero, their responsibilities ...

    Article : 176 words
  9. IS RANDWICK A "PLACE."

    It will be remembered that a number of the smaller clam of bookmakers lately attempted to ply their calling on the Flat at Randwick, Without paying the unjust and illegal betting face the A.J.C. impose on ...

    Article : 450 words
  10. RACECOURSE CONTRARIETIES.

    The water never could understand the reason for one little difficulty which [?] the trainer who moves from Melbourne to Sydney, or form Sydney to Melbourne, In Fact, he begins to meet it before he moves ...

    Article : 281 words
  11. A FOREIGN FIELDER.

    The Proposed admission of Tong Hing, a well-known Chiln[?] punter, as a bookmaking in the Club last Week, Only one member bucked at the Yellow Agony, and he ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. NO CHANCE OF UNIFORMITY.

    Now that Federation, so far from being "in the air," is on solid earth, enthusiastic people who think that all differences between the colomies should disppear may ask why the V.R.C. and the A.J.C. do not confer, so as ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. A TAROUINIAN TRICK.

    For a good old can't go wrong ramp Rand wick is an easy first, In the Graven Platt, with Tarquin and Dandy left in, it looked as if Paul Pit had some active opposition to beat; consequently, the books opened ...

    Article : 226 words
  14. CURSED IN CHRISTENING.

    The N.S.W. galoot that named a racehorse "Holy Water" had do more reverence ct sense than a bag of feathere." These really ought to he a Court of Nomen. clature Revision, if only out of mercy for the poor ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. WATCH THE WATCHERS.

    Readers of Dickens remember how Micawber speaks of "the course language of sport." The sporting writer who attempted to be a Macaulay would soon be regarded us a fit subject for a lunatic asslum What. ...

    Article : 217 words
  16. PUNTERS' PRADS.

    At last Kensigton Meeting a worried looking punter, who had not touched bottom cup to the fourth race, sorted out a pony as having a good chance of winni Seeing the owner of the fancied pony approaching, the ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. MINISTER AND METALLICIANS.

    On Eight-Hour Day the only O'Sullivan, resplendant in all the glory of a silk cady, and his face illuminated by an anglic smile, bowed his thanks from the balcony of Tattersall's to the lusty-voiced ranks of labor. The ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. SIR (?) WALTER HALL.

    For many years past Waiter Hall, the owner of Reviver, has kept his pockets lastened up with Chubb's locks, but now he appars to have lost the keys and become most liberal Donations of £5000 to the ...

    Article : 88 words
  19. KENNEDY'S CRAWL DOWN.

    At a late meeting of the A.J C, S. R. Kennedy being in an unusually' veracious mood, stated that T. S. Clib-born was an "unpopular secretary." The Onion Club. gang frowned hard enough to bring the plaster of the ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. 'SHNOWING SOL.

    Shnowing Sol called in this morning to remind rue that starting THE SPORTSMAN on Yom Kippur day was sure to bring mossel, as be tried to sell me some scourab jewellery and schorumed about his drac stuff, ...

    Article : 77 words
  21. CRANNEY'S COLLECTION FOR CUMMINGS.

    Dave Cummings, after years of plucky batting, with lung troubles, threw a seven the other day. As is usual with most bookmakers, he left little provision for those dependant upon him. Matt ...

    Article : 127 words
  22. TRICKY THOMPSON'S TALE.

    As was expected, the Warwick Farm Stewards were playing to the galler in asking the Jenny Moore crowed a question. Seeing that Warwick Farm Gough was on top, it was Beanchamp's palace to a banana on ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. THE BROAD BENDIGONIAN.

    Alr. Josephs, lately deemed, cut up for £70,000, not as the result of fielding, bat principally from moneylending. All. was always a better pawnbroker than bookmaker. He once wrote and published a book ...

    Article : 57 words
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