THE readers of the SPORTSMAN have, in previous issues, been made fully acquainted with the circumstances which led up to the making of the second match between Miller ...
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Advertising : 268 wordsON Wednesday last the benefit to W. Hudson, the New Zealand champion wrestler, came off at the Lyceum Hall. There was a good house. The principal points of the programme were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsON Monday next, at the Lyceum Hall, a joint complimentary athletic benefit is to be given Harry Sellers and Joe Kitchen, toe veterans of many a fight Twenty-seven years ago they ...
Article : 100 wordsWRITING from Stawell, under date 17th August, Mr. W. S. Jenkinson says:--"If you should happens to see my friend, Mr. Charles Dwyer, you can tell him I will accept his ...
Article : 53 wordsTHE West Bourke Plate Meeting in connection with the Victoria Club, on Thursday and Friday last, was only moderately attended. Strong winds blew each day ...
Article : 481 wordsA GRAND exhibition of gymnastics takes place on Monday next in the Town Hall, Melbourne. His Excellency and Lady Loch, the naval and military commandants, the Premier ...
Article : 330 wordsAS will be seen by an advertisement elsewhere, the time for receiving entries for the above handicap has been extended to Saturday next. Intending competitors would do well to ...
Article : 43 wordsSIR,--As I am led to believe that O'Brien claims to be champion up to ten miles in Australia, I am surprised he has made no reply to my challenge of two weeks ago. I shall leave ...
Article : 84 wordsLAST week a letter appeared in these columns from Donald Dinnie, offering to meet Clarence Whistler under certain conditions. In continuation of this the parties met at the Hunt ...
Article : 280 wordsSIR,--Your correspondent in San Francisco ought to find proper end impartial knowledge about records of athletics done in all parts of the world before writing to you as he did ...
Article : 606 wordsEMERALD HILL V. MALMSBURY.--This match was played at Albert Park on Saturday last, and after one of the grandest hurling contests yet seen in Victoria the game ended in a ...
Article : 463 wordsTHE Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack of Old England floated side by side over the grandstand at the Chicago Driving Park on the afternoon of 13th June. Beneath the bunting was a ...
Article : 820 wordsFOR the last fortnight or so our boxers have been very quiet, but they made a little stir at the end of last Lees, who has been with us for some time, has been suffering from a bad hand, ...
Article : 214 wordsMR. JOHN COUCH, who is desirous to have a fox terrier club formed at North Melbourne, invites those interested to attend a meeting at the Court House Hotel, Errol-street, at 8 o'clock ...
Article : 332 wordsThe parties interested in the boxing match between Lees and Jackson met last night, and again this afternoon, when they would not come to terms, and the money deposited was ...
Article : 69 wordsTHERE was a great amount of work done at Randwick this morning, but nothing of a sensational character. Claudine did a good six furlongs, as also did ...
Article : 387 wordsDURING the last few days Foley has been offering to back an 11st. man to box anything in the colonies for any amount up to £5000. This is a bold offer, and I have not yet heard of ...
Article : 441 wordsSIR,--I notice you state that Duncan C. Ross has cut the record by throwing 16lb. hammer 109ft. 2in. fair stand, Davidson being before in front with 108ft. In the same paper you state ...
Article : 247 wordsTO-DAY the cyclists who are to take part in the Fourth Annual Intercolonial Amateur Champion Race Meeting of the Sydney Club take their departure. They leave per express ...
Article : 201 wordsSIR,--I have noticed in the Sportsman of 12th August that Mr. Duncan C. Ross, the champion all-round athlete of the world, broke some of the world's records in throwing the 16lb. ...
Article : 100 words"THBOC" in the World writes:--"But the great attraction of the fair is the tent of the wrestler Marseille, where if is the correct thing for clubmen, artists, and even mondaines, to go ...
Article : 135 wordsSIR,--Will you allow me, through your widely circulated journal, to convey to Messrs. C. A. Dwyer and C. Long, secretary and captain of the Emerald Hill Hurling Club the sincere thanks ...
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Advertising : 45 wordsCONNOR, the Lancashire wrestler, called at the SPORTSMAN office on Monday to take down his forfeit, and to say that he was returning to Newcastle in a day or two. He was still prepared ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 19 Aug 1885, Page 4
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