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  2. BOXING AT BROKEN HILL.

    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, ...

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  3. A LETTER FROM JACK SLAVIN.

    SAN 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 words
  4. Athletic Doings.

    NOT 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 words
  5. OUR CALIFORNIAN LETTER.

    FRIEND 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 words
  6. More Driving Power to His Delivery.

    And 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 words
  7. Apt Pupil of the "Buffel[?]

    Slavin 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 words
  8. SAM NIXON IN LONDON.

    THE 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 words
  9. SYDNEY BOXING GOSSIP.

    CHAMPION 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 words
  10. LIVELY SPORT IN TASMANIA

    TWO 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 words
  11. WRESTLING IN SYDNEY.

    WRESTLING 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 words
  12. Slavin Ready in Ten Minutes.

    NEW 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 words
  13. THE GODDARD-CHOYNSKI MATCH.

    THE 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 words
  14. Sullivan will Meet Slavin w[?] His Theatrical Engagement's Expire.

    JACK 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 words
  15. ARRIVAL OF SLAVIN IN ENGLAND.

    Frank 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 words
  16. AT THE APOLLO HALL.

    THE 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 words
  17. JOHN L. SULLIVAN HAS STARTED.

    ON 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
  18. Matches Place and Talked Of.

    [?] Athletic Club is busy a[?] for to future. [?] July [?]on and Arthur Tully have gr[?] £75 purse, of which ...

    Article : 210 words
  19. Donegan's Fitzroy Gymnasium and Athletic Hall.

    A 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 words
  20. Flemington Running Grounds

    THE 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 words
  21. Making a Complaint.

    IN 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 words
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