THE fight to a finish between Jim Burge and Eddy Seymour, of Sydney, came off at the Skating Rink on Monday week. A purse of £150 was put up by Mr. M'Kic, ...
Article : 1,034 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 24th May. Friend SPORTSMAN, -- I take much pleasure in writing to you. I wish to be remembered to all the boys. I found Captain ...
Article : 322 wordsNOT even the combined effects of rain, fog, and mud were able to mar the efforts of the athletes of Melbourne to aid the sufferers by the Taramung disaster on Wednesday night. ...
Article : 976 wordsFRIEND SPORTSMAN, -- I know not how to commence my monthly letter to you, being placed in a perplexing quandary as to what term to apply to the late "big event." I ...
Article : 1,612 wordsAnd the advice given to him by his numerous friends is a good one -- "Do not fight for a year or two at least." In concluding my remarks about this ...
Article : 1,686 wordsSlavin and Mitchell are making money fast in New York and Eastern cities. His go with Kilrain is looked for with eagerness. He has undertaken a hard job to stop Kilrain ...
Article : 686 wordsTHE following is taken from a letter written by Sam Nixon to THE SPORTMAN: -- On the following Saturday evening I went to Tom Symonds' Blue Anchor Hotel. ...
Article : 678 wordsCHAMPION GRIFFO is now at Frank Smith's, Botany, working in real earnest to get thoroughly well for his next battle with "Torpedo" Murphy. Jack Bateman, ...
Article : 460 wordsTWO amateurs named J. Dixon and C. Murphy had a set to with the gloves in the athletic rooms in Charles-street on Wednesday night for a stake of £10. From a scientific ...
Article : 693 wordsWRESTLING never was a popular sport in this city, the home of champion scullers, boxers, and sprinters. Somehow the public never will take kindly to it. But at the ...
Article : 373 wordsNEW YORK exchanges of the 11th May state: -- During an interview with a Press representative. Slavin said -- I was challenged by any number of men, and I can't ...
Article : 293 wordsTHE match between Joe Goddard and Joe Choy[?]ski at the Melbourne Athletic Club on the 20th July is attracting much interest. Though Goddard is still the favorite at 6 to 4, ...
Article : 130 wordsJACK BARNETT, J. L. Sullivan's mana[?] writing to the editor of the Illustrated N. explains the Champion's pugilistic posit Here is the letter: -- "Slavin simply cal[?] ...
Article : 266 wordsFrank P. Slavin, the Australian Champion pugilist, who recently defeated Jake Kilrain at Oboken, in America, arrived at Queens town yesterday (Sunday). On his being ...
Article : 83 wordsTHE announcement that Jim Barron, of Sydney, and Jim Woods. of Collingwood, would box the best of night rounds crew a very fair crowd to the Apoilo Hall on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 931 wordsON Saturday, Mr. Charles MacMahon of the [?] Opera House, received a cablegram to the [?] effect that John L. Sullivan and party hd[?] left 'Frisco on the 25th inst. The [?] ...
Article : 80 words[?] Athletic Club is busy a[?] for to future. [?] July [?]on and Arthur Tully have gr[?] £75 purse, of which ...
Article : 210 wordsA SPECIAL programme has been arranged for to-morrow evening (Wednesday) at the above place. The feature of the entertainment will be a contest (one to win) for a purse ...
Article : 107 wordsTHE Grand National Handicap, of [?] will be run off on these grounds on Friday 17th July. Entries can be made at Flemington Hotel on or before Saturday, 11th July ...
Article : 295 wordsIN a letter headed "How Things were Conducted at Winchelsea." "Be[?]ac" makes certain statements as to neglect in not answering his letters and with regard to other ...
Article : 61 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Tue 30 Jun 1891, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: