SIR,--Knowing your willingness to show abuses of a sporting nature to be ventilated in your valuable columns has induced me to pen this letter with Maid to Mr Vowles idea ...
Article : 619 wordsSIR,--One of the games of the season has just been played, and while the chief points and events in connection with the game are still familiar to so many of our readers it ...
Article : 824 wordsOn Saturday night at the Alexandra Theatre, Christol and Victor wrestled thier match. The stakes were L20, and the conditions were that Chrislol was to throw Victor 5 times in an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 519 wordsYESTERDAY the final deposit of L80 aside was paid over to the Editor of The Sportsman in the Gannon and Dunn match at the Alexandra Theatre next Saturday night. They are ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Alexandra Theatre has been secured for Saturday night, the 24th September, for a "Grand Assault at Arms," Among other items on the programme, Slavin and Costello, ...
Article : 148 wordsSIR,--I have a pony horse about 14 hands 2 inches, a trotter, aud intended him for the next V.T. Meeting in October, but I observe a duly qualified veterinary surgeon's certificate ...
Article : 181 wordsTHERE has always been a dispute as to who was entitled to claim the middle-weight championship. Fogarty seems to have had as good a right to it as anybody; and, further, he ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 525 wordsELIJAH JACKSON will box any light-weight in Australia to a finish for 50 sovs, young Murphy, of New Zealand, preferred. Any lad desirous of a Quitch has only to forward a ...
Article : 45 wordsP. J. MOLONEY writes that hearing that J. Wilkinson, of Sydney, would like to make a match with him to run 129 or 130 yards, the latter can be obliged by leaving any ...
Article : 64 wordsSIR,--The committee of the Hotham Football Club are greatly to blame in not giving our second twenty men a show. At Geelong four of the regular team were absent, and on ...
Article : 178 wordsSIR,--In the issue of last week s Sportsman "I noticed a brief account of P. Slavin's performances, stating that he defeated me in three rounds, for £10 [?] This I wish to [?] ...
Article : 180 wordsTHE conditions of the next Sir Joseph Banks' Handicap are published in our columns today. The prize money and particulars are the same as usual excepting that instead of the regular ...
Article : 159 wordsSIR,--May I express the pleasure the perusal of your condemnation of the proposed match for money between the Mortlake and Tower Hill Football clubs afforded me. The ...
Article : 194 wordsON Monday, 1st of August, there were fully 4000 persons crowded into the Palace Gardens, Sydenham, to witness a twenty mile race between Jack Keen, ex. bicycle champion, and ...
Article : 367 wordsOWING to the tracks not being completed, the amateur and maiden races, which wore to have taken place next Saturday, have been postponed until Saturday, the 24th September. ...
Article : 57 wordsTHE Clunes Fete Sports committee met at the Free Library on Thursday, 8th September. There were present--Messrs J. Edwards (president of the association, in the chair), G. E. ...
Article : 200 wordsSir.--I would like to draw the attention of the junior football club, through your column, to the unjustified conduct of the Werribee Juniors F.C. on Saturday last (3rd Sept.). on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 wordsTHE carnival just concluded at the Sir Joseph Grounds has been more than ordinarily successful. In the 10th handicap we had Hutchens the champion of the world, run into the final, ...
Article : 1,028 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Auburn Bowling Club, on Friday last, the following office bearers were elected:--President, Councillor W. T. M'Fee; vice-presidents, the Mayor of ...
Article : 146 wordsSIR,--As the cricket season is approaching rapidly, and the junior clubs will be on the alert looking out for the best trophies to be played for. I would like to ask the members ...
Article : 262 wordsTHE seventh event in connection with the Handicap Yacht Race on the Albert Park Lagoon took place on Saturday. The Kelpie won by only a few seconds the Wanda being, ...
Article : 110 wordsWILLIE R. BECKWITH has accepted the challenge of George Kistler of Peasance to swim all comers in Mount's Bay Peneance for L50 aside providing Kistler will allow him L10 ...
Article : 81 wordsCHELTENHAM v. SOUTH BRIGHTON.--This match was played on Saturday at Cheltenham, and resulted as follows:--Cheltenham, 40 games; South Brighton, 5 games. ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 14 Sep 1887, Page 7
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