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  3. CALLING THE CARD.

    SOME brilliant genius got an idea into his knowledge box that the patient punters were dying for an opportunity to bet billions with the bookmakers, provided a ...

    Article : 436 words
  4. A NEW TRACK.

    LAST Tuesday, at the invitation of the Kensington Racing Club, about 20 sportsmen, including a big percentage of pressmen, visited the above club's course to ...

    Article : 461 words
  5. POOR BOOKIE.

    ANOTHER injustice to the unhappy muchchivvied layer of odds has been discovered. In a recent case the Court of Appeal in England gave a ruling which is calculated ...

    Article : 338 words
  6. NOTES AND NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

    Kensington races take place to-morrow, Lady Maude has gone to Brisbane in charge of J. Banks. Redmond finished well in the Summer ...

    Article : 1,907 words
  7. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    THE racehorse owners and trainers of South Australia have lately been petitioning the South Australian Jockey Club to add a couple of days more racing per year to the ...

    Article : 155 words
  8. DEATH OF A FAMOUS CUMBERLAND WRESTLER.

    A FAMOUS Cumberland wrestler has passed away in Harry I[?]ison, who died at Carlisle the other week at the age of about 70. He made his first appearance in the Carlisle ...

    Article : 244 words
  9. FOREST LODGE SCORES A " PONY."

    THE Margaret — Jenny Lind protest was adjudicated upon last Thursday, the Forest Lodge stewards deciding in favor of Margaret. The objection on the part of the ...

    Article : 339 words
  10. SAILING IN BRISBANE.

    WRITES our Brisbane correspondent : — Our sydney visitors say they have had a good time here, but they certainly do not take away much prize money. There was ...

    Article : 112 words
  11. WHITE STOCKINGS.

    Four white feet and a white nose, Cut his throat aud throw him to the crows. — OLD SAW. A CORRESPONDENT "writes (says a writer in ...

    Article : 509 words
  12. RANDWICK GALLOPS.

    THE final stirring np of horses at Randwick, for the meeting to bo held to-day, under the auspices of Tattesall's Club, took place on Monday, and the principal equines to ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. SEEKING JUSTICE.

    IN commenting on, the inequitable and illegal interference of the A.J.C. and Kensington Clubs with the actions of other race clubs, the SPORTSMAN indicated that sooner ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. THE BETTING BILL

    THE " Melbourne Sportsman" has the following: — 'In answer to several inquiries, I might stats that the Sports Betting Suppression Bill, having received the Royal ...

    Article : 261 words
  15. A WEARY WAIL

    WHEN it was seen that A.J.C. starter Watson was keeping the Villiers' field prancing round the, starting post, because he bad forgotten his powder-puff, or list, or ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. THE GAMING WITNESS.

    SYDNEY a not the only place where the police, for want of something more important to do, spend their time in hunting the bold, bad bookmaker to his lair, and the ...

    Article : 320 words
  17. THE TOTE.

    THE advocates of the totalisator are again at work in Melbourne, and, having joined forces with a number of racing clubs, allege their prospects of success are bright. As ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND.

    STEPHANO,a three-year-old gelding by Carnage, was twice successful on the opening day of the Newcastle and High Gosforth Park meeting. He started by capturing ...

    Article : 120 words
  19. FINANCING A " BOOKIE."

    WE seldom hear in Australia of a bookmaker taking the benefit of the Insolvency Act, but a few years ago a Victorian, with the suspiciously Semitic name of Abraham ...

    Article : 225 words
  20. A FISH STORY.

    MR. M'ILLWRAITH, of Melbourne, is brother of the late Queensland statesman of the same name. Mac was an ardent fisherman, and his brother Tom used to tell [?] ...

    Article : 31 words
  21. A DOG YARN.

    AT the last Victorian dog show a Sydney fancier[?] over a couple of favorite animals, and as the rule required, put a price, £20 each, upon [?]. He did not want to sell, ...

    Article : 53 words
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