There was a large house at the Apollo Athletic Hall on Saturday night to witness Peter Boland and Will Smith, the Sydney boxer, engage in an eight-round contest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 351 wordsThe Vice-Presidents' Plate and Southers Cup Meeting was brought to a conclusion yesterday. Fortunately the weather proved of a most favorable description each day, but ...
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Article : 3,267 wordsOsborn writes from Gippsland as follows:--In ready to the challenge of Tom Burrows and Charley Eyton, I may state in answer to Burrows that at present I am too far away ...
Article : 403 wordsDid you ever try to be fanny and look happy when you were wrestling with a heavy-weight b[?]ions attack, and when you would most readily part with the alternating hot and cold ...
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Article : 254 wordsJack Cashen writes:--A few weeks ago there appeared a challenge in THE SPORTSMAN from Bert Osborn offering to wrestle the ten best light weights in Victoria a combined ...
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Article : 89 wordsIn reply to Nipper Peake's letter in last week's SPORTSMAN, Pluto says he is quite ready to meet tho Sydney featherweight. He will box as many rounds and with as small gloves ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 270 wordsPeter Newton advertises that he has returned from his Queensland trip with the Burke Combination, and has resumed his boxing classes at the old place. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe following challenge is to hand:--I, Daniel Considine, of Sandhurst, am prepared match myself for L20 to throw three Irish styles against James Fi[?]ne, of Melbourne ...
Article : 76 wordsNest Saturday night, at the above hall, Mace, the Newcastle boxer, and T. Williams, of Carlton, are to box right rounds. The usual rules will govern the contest, a referee being ...
Article : 33 wordsPoor Jem Goodwin, the well-known Birmingham light-weight, dropped dead on A[?]ntree racecourse, in Wednesday, 11th July. He has been in had health for the last two years. ...
Article : 55 wordsArrangements have been made for a boxing encounter at B[?]achook's Hall. Adelaide, between Griffe, light-weight boxer, and Smith of Fort Adelaide, on Thursday, for a purse of ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 22 Aug 1888, Page 7
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