T. LEES writes to say that he will take no notices of challenges that are unaccompanied by substantial forfeit. He is ready at any time to do business on a fair basis, and ...
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Advertising : 288 wordsEver since their wrestling match in the Exhibition Building, when Professor Miller had his leg broken, he and Donald Dinnie have been in correspondence as to which is ...
Article : 441 wordsTHE Stawell football team had a trip to Horsham a week ago, to play the return match with that club. The latter were evidently in better fettle then when they ...
Article : 239 wordsNEXT Monday week is the date chosen for the joint benefit to Lees and Newton at the Lyceum Hall. A splendid programme is being prepared, in which Prof. Miller ...
Article : 109 wordsLAST year, owing to the difference of opinion as regards the relative merits of Commotion and Malus, the question most frequently put by the "weight waiters" ...
Article : 1,031 wordsA CYCLING race meeting will be held upon the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on the occasion of the opening of the new grand stand, under the auspices of the Melbourne ...
Article : 679 words" I'VE held my watch on about every kind of duck there is," said an old-time wild-fowl hunter the other day, ''and I can tell just about to the sixty-third part of a dot how ...
Article : 1,291 wordsTO-NIGHT, at the Lyceum Hall, Dinnie and Hudson wrestle for £50. The conditions are the best of fire styles, Hudson to have the choice of these as a concession, in ...
Article : 108 wordsNEXT to the turf, I suppose, professional pedestrianism is exciting the most attention, in the shape of a Sheffield Handicap, promoted by Mr. W. S. Kelly. The distance is 150 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,492 wordsON Saturday next, at the Friendly Societies' Gardens, O'Connor and Fosse run their five-mile match for £100, the final deposit of which is due on Friday. Both the men ...
Article : 87 wordsON Monday night, at the Lyceum Hall, Bernard Murphy and M. Cann, of Geelong, walked two miles for £50, Cann conceding his opponent 100 yards. As the track is 20 ...
Article : 403 wordsJ. THOMAS, who recently defeated Blackburn at Sandhurst, has called to say that he is prepared to meet any 13st. man in Australia, for £25 a-side and the whole of the gate ...
Article : 81 wordsON Monday next, at the Lyceum Hall, a complimentary athletic entertainment to to be tendered Messrs. Ewans and Dick, the well-known wrestlers. These favourite ...
Article : 70 words11.--T. Clifford v. Kemp, £100 a-side, over the champion course, Parramatta River. 18.--Neil Matterson v. Kemp, £100 a-side, over the champion course. Parramatta River. ...
Article : 913 wordsA MATHOURA correspondent writes:-- "On Saturday, the 27th inst., a foot-race took place here between a well-known athlete named H. A. Horne and an amateur named P. Black ...
Article : 166 wordsTHE London Sportsman thus refers to the tour of the last English Eleven:--Once more it is our pleasing duty to welcome back to our shores a band of cricketers, this time ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsR. MATHEWS, champion boxer of New Zealand, under date 10th June, states that he had signed articles for a boxing match to take place at the Theatre Royal, Auckland ...
Article : 76 wordsTHE much-talked of match between Ted Sutton, of Miami, and R. Power, of Adamstown, for £200, came off in Beaumont-street, Hamilton, recently (says a New South Wales ...
Article : 256 wordsis such a "flattering" handicap that there is absolutely nothing sticking out. Having, however, a peculiar weakness for top weights, I shall at present content myself with ...
Article : 43 wordsSIR,--In reply to Mr. O'Brien's letter in last week's issue of the SPORTSMAN, I wish to state definitely that I am prepared to meet him at half a mile only. I freely admit that at the ...
Article : 141 wordsis another teaser, best left alone until the hundred odd horses nominated are thinned down to about thirty, and even then the prophet who indicates the winner will be ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsTHE weather hae been so bad lately that it has been determined to postpone the handicap match originally fixed for next Saturday, at the Imperial Hotel, South ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 1 Jul 1885, Page 3
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