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  3. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    WHILE the SPORTSMAN does not pine for the say wien each and every professional pugilist will be found arrayed in the white waistcoat of a blameless life, it has no ...

    Article : 510 words
  4. THE SWIMMING SEASON,

    PHIL MAY, the artist, during his pleasant days in Sydney, used to tell two stories—one his own, the other a nobody's dog yarn. The stories were about low-type Cockneys ...

    Article : 442 words
  5. "BOBS" AND BILLIARDS.

    ROBERTS' form in his recant match with Weiss was probably the worst he has ever shows, and there are some who watched the match from start to finish who have ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. SHOP SPOTTERS.

    LITTLE marvel that respectable citizens fight shy of certain betting shops when they want to invest a few pounds. There are a few places, very fow where one is not ...

    Article : 224 words
  7. SPORT JOTTINGS.

    Kensington races to-day. Brighton R.C. will hold a race meeting to-morrow. Cyclist Walne returned to Melbourne ...

    Article : 1,888 words
  8. RIDING FIRST AND SECOND.

    A REMARKABLE incident in connection with the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase occurred in 1881, when F. Hedge, who at that time held a high place amongst ...

    Article : 192 words
  9. THE SCIENCE OF TIPPING.

    OUR Melbourne correspondent has, since his association with the SYDNEY SPORTSMAN, been a success in his anticipations of races. Throughout the late V.A.T.C. meeting, his ...

    Article : 156 words
  10. THE CAULFIELD CUP.

    FROM all accounts the last Caulfield Cap was one of the mott interesting that has been run for many yean. With a field of 23, and at least six starters carrying public ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. LIPTON LASH.

    SIR THOMAS LIPTON who is undoubtedly as well plucked a [?] as ever trod deck, could not refra[?] from one little lash at the conditions up[?] which he had to ...

    Article : 316 words
  12. IN SYDNEY ON SATURDAY.

    THOUGH there was a considerable amount of interest in the Cap in Sydney on Saturday, there was not much excitement on the result being made known, the numerous ...

    Article : 251 words
  13. WAKEFUL, YET ASLEEP.

    ONE would doubt, in these times when mast people go to bed with their boots off, the possibility of a man being taken down by a welsher in Pitt-street. Yet a smart ...

    Article : 227 words
  14. BOOKMAKING AND BUCOLICS.

    DATTO race meeting was, is, and probably always will be, a wild and hilarious sporting symposium. At the meeting all the butter trailers and cow caretakers for miles around ...

    Article : 269 words
  15. CRICKET CRITICISMS.

    THE non-inclusion of Ranjitsinhji and several other well-known English cricketers in the team that is now on its way to Australia for the international series of ...

    Article : 303 words
  16. WELLINGTON'S SEMPITERNAL FAREWELL.

    WELLINGTON, by Panic from From Frou Fron, died last Wednesday at Talindart. He was a champion in his day at racing, and he has left a hall-mark as a sire. ...

    Article : 234 words
  17. "PAT THE BAKER."

    THE passing of "Pat the Baker" was duly chronicled in the SPORTSMAN a few weeks back. Pat was an old and popular racecourse identity. He was identified with ...

    Article : 271 words
  18. RANDWICK RIFLE RANGES.

    THE forty-second prize meeting of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales opened at Randwick on Monday, and bids fair to rival previous meetings in ...

    Article : 287 words
  19. CHEAP JACK "AUCTIONEERS."

    LAST week we quoted the "Australasian" newspaper showing how poor the Melbourne bookmakers fielded when practically there was no money on offer over the Caulfield ...

    Article : 108 words
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