A crowded house made the proprietors of the Gate "feel good" (as our 'Murkan friends have it) on Wednesday night last, when the second round of their ninth ...
Article : 1,116 wordsPrior to the Turner-Dune fight on Saturday night the crowd were treated to some excellent solos on the mouth-organ—the player proved himself quite an artist, but ...
Article : 855 wordsA fairly good house, with a comfortably filled gallery, witnessed, at the Gaiety Athletic Hall on Monday night, one of the hottest and most exciting fist fights seen in ...
Article : 1,171 wordsIN the early part of the year 1795, there was great excitement in pugilistic circles, for the news was spread abroad that at last Dan Mendoza had found somebody to throw ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,845 wordsAt the Cyclorama last Saturday evening Jack Dunne, who is trying hard to arouse interest here in the fistic art, and Harry Phillips, of New Zealand, had a 20-round ...
Article : 318 wordsThe match between Hardman and Foley proved one of the hardest-rought battles seen here for some years past. The audience was very large and rowdy ...
Article : 438 words"Billy" M'Coll has written to say that he will be in Newcastle this week for the purpose of signing articles for the Scanlan match. Up to the present the theatre is ...
Article : 669 wordsIn the estimation of many onlookers (and there was a big crowd of them) at Saturday night's battle, Bob Turner went home from the Golden Gate Hall with a huge rent in ...
Article : 880 wordsFully 250 gentlemen accepted the invitation of the committee of the Waverley Swimming Club to a smoke concert on Saturday evening last at the Waverley Hall ...
Article : 382 wordsThis has been another slack week. However, a number are in training, and some good fights are coming. Micko Walsh has started training for his ...
Article : 422 wordsEbon-hued Ike Stewart and Jack Tucker, a Balmain pug of much local repute, are to have a cut at each other in a 20-rounds bout under the Gate management next ...
Article : 69 wordsThe match between Bob Turner and Ed. Jessop was clinched yesterday in this office by the signing of articles. The date has been shifted from the 9th prox, to the 16th ...
Article : 111 wordsReferring to the boxing bouts at "Wonderland" on the previous Saturday night. London "Sportsman" of April 7 says:— "One of the chief events of the evening ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 419 words"Friend 'Amateur,'—The Rickards Tivoli Company closed their season on the 14th inst., and as the boxing game is on the boom here. I have secured a lay over for ...
Article : 147 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 25 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 53 wordsBlackmore complains that he has been challenging Jack Willis for three months, and though Willis has accepted several times, he never [?] the mark. "Only ...
Article : 79 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 130 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), Wed 21 May 1902, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: