UNDOUBTEDLY, the most genuine public glove fight ever held in Dunedin came off at the Garrison Hall on the 16th March, between J. Mathews, an American athlete. ...
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Advertising : 82 wordsBEENARD MURPHY is out with a challenge to walk Davidson (who was second in the three miles walk on St. Patrick's Day) three miles for £85 or £50 a-side. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsLAST Wednesday O'Brien left for Sydney in the Leura, accompanied by a Kyneton friend. On Tuesday he wired as follows:--"Arrived here safely on Sunday. ...
Article : 239 wordsSELDOM has greet athletic encounter been so fairly won by the sheer merit of the best man as was the race between Beach and Hanlan on Saturday. Weather, condition, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 3,959 wordsOUR Sydney correspondent writes:--We have a host of boxing talent at present amongst us. Farnan and Foley will, no doubt, meet, as both appear anxious, and I am ...
Article : 156 wordsTHERE was s capital house at the Lyceum Hall on Monday, on the occasion of the benefit to Adamson and Smith, the lightweight boxers, who boxed recently for a £25 ...
Article : 209 wordsProfessor Miller has issued the following challenge:--I hereby deposit £50 with the proprietors of the Evening News and the Town and ...
Article : 175 wordsPETER NEWTON is anxious to contradict a statement that has been made that, in a fight for £50 at Broadmeadows on Sunday with a man named Molloy, he received such ...
Article : 105 wordsSIR,--I am greatly indebted to you for forwarding my correspondence to me, and in thanking you for doing so I must also ask you to be kind enough to keep all futures letters addressed to me at your ...
Article : 194 wordsTHE boxing match between George Powell and Chris. Dunn, for £50 a-side and the light-weight championship, was set down for Monday afternoon at the Hippodrome, ...
Article : 519 wordsON Wednesday last, just before leaving for Sydney in the Leura, Farnan and Nathan called at the SPORTSMAN office to say that they accepted Lees' challenge to box, Marquis ...
Article : 183 wordsSIR.--As many of your readers are interested in fast walking, and as perhaps a good many lovers of heel-ana-toe walking had not the opportunity of seeing the 3-mile walk on St. ...
Article : 258 wordsVICTOR write the [?] intention of challenging [?] in the mixed style, [?] can above the waist with [?] tripping ...
Article : 96 wordsSIR,--I have just arrived from India, where I was fencing master of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment. Some friends have informed me that Mons. Victor is the champion swordsman of the colonies. I will ...
Article : 81 wordsOn Monday afternoon a match was arranged between W. Hudson, the New Zealand champion wrestler, and J. Thomas, the champion 12st. wrestler of Australia. ...
Article : 192 wordsTHE Emerald Hill, Hotham, and the Brighten played a match on the Friendly Societies Gardens on the 17th ult. The dee were picked by Mr. P. Long, of ...
Article : 98 wordsWilliamstown v. the officers of H.M.S. Nelson played on the Williamstown green. It resulted in win for the local team, the scorers being ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 1 Apr 1885, Page 4
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