THE interest deepens a the date draws near for the Goddard and Choynaki contest at the Melbourne Athletic Club. Yesterday there was an offer to take £600 to £400 that ...
Article : 133 wordsEXCEPT for the flake that nearly made Mace the victor but which all the came demonstrated both Dawson'e pluck and coolness, it may be said that Mace had little ...
Article : 777 wordsTHE result of the Slavin-Kilrain fight was not, generally speaking, anxiously awaited here, as Adelaideans long ago came to the conclusion that Slavic's fights would never be ...
Article : 527 wordsTHE cable messages for the last week, both to and from America and England, have contained unusually interesting matter. First same the news that Jack Slavin and Bill ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsTHE Botany Handicap to-day was won by M. Ward, who started at 2 to 1 on, from the 37yds mark. O. Cowley, 35½yds, was second, and C. Barks, 38yds, third. ...
Article : 41 wordsNEXT Monday night at the Melbourne Athletic Club promises to be a lively one. Macgowan and Weir are to box ten rounds, while Jim Barron and Arthur Tully are to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsWrestler, Club Swinger, Trainer, and Good Fellow all Round. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 11 words"STARLIGHT" and Tut Ryan met at the Apollo Hall on Friday night last to settle who was the better man and for a £25 purse. Ryan was seconded by the Duggan Brothers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsAt a committee meeting of the Balaklava Athletic Club (Adelaide), held on the 26th ult. to consider the paying over of stakes in connection with the Sheffield handicap run on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsIN reporting Slavin's arrival in America, the New York papers say :--"The Australian wonder is a strapping fellow. He resembles Sullivan, but is, perhaps, better looking. He ...
Article : 497 wordsTHE Fitzroy Athletic Hall was crowded from floor to coiling on Wednesday evening last, but upon totting up the door receipts it turned out that the majority ...
Article : 507 wordsMR. R. MONRO, the hon. secretary of the Cootamundra Club, writes me that their next meeting has been postponed until 28th and 29th instant, entries being due on 27th. At ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsTHE announcement that a special train would be provided for those wishing to attend a meet of the Melbourne hounds of Point Cooke was taken advantage of by ...
Article : 702 words[?]W. F. Corbett, sec., to the Sydney Amateur Gymnasium. In this it was stated that Murphy had been forwarded a cheque to ...
Article : 219 wordsTHE South Melbourne alley was the scene of the championship matches on Tuesday evening, and, as usual, there was a good attendance, the local admirers of the game ...
Article : 1,061 wordsTHE New York Sun published the following recently :--" John Whitman, who won the Pairie Gazette Heavy-weight Teeth-lifting Championship last March, accomplished a ...
Article : 145 words137 BRIDPORT-STREET. SOUTH MELBOURNE. --Sir,--There has been a lot of challenging going on lately between club swingers, and it teems to be the impression among them that ...
Article : 158 wordsLATROBE, Tasmania, 27th June--Sir,--At a public meeting, held at Latrobe recently, it was received to hold at Latrobe, about the month of November next, an axemanship ...
Article : 255 wordsATHLETIC matters are lively in Ballarat. In the boxing branch the sports are lucky to possess a referee like Mr. John M'Phail. He rill stand no nonsense, and his quiet but ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 304 wordsON noticing "Becae's" communication in last weeks Sportsman, Mr. Keenan, who has the new running grounds at Winchelsea, called in at the office. First be left with us a ...
Article : 92 wordsTHE mail just arrived gives the following about the Jackson and Corbett contest:-- Jackson, in an interview, said :--" After the twenty-fifth round my left shoulder weakened ...
Article : 197 wordsTHE Melbourne Harriers met on Saturday at the Royal Hotel, Essendon. The trail led across the railway line, down Buckley-street, over the Aberfeldy Estate to the Horseshoe ...
Article : 148 wordsON Thursday week 16th July, the above grounds will be opened with a grand Sheffield Handicap of 100 sovs. the running will be continued on the two following nights. ...
Article : 200 wordsNEW YORK, 24th May.--Mrs. Howland, wife of the Rev. Henry Howland, has instituted a suit for divorce on the ground of her husband's infidelity with the wife of John L. Sullivan, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 277 wordsFRANK SLAVIN rises every morning at 6.30, then he takes a "constitutional " until breakfast. This meal consists of soft-boiled eggs, toast and beef tea, also weak tea ...
Article : 133 wordsTHE run of tbe Oaklands Hunt Club on Saturday was very successful. The meet was at Sunbury. A special train, conveying Low and Lady Hopetoun, Lord North and sevcen ...
Article : 125 wordsMR. TOM CURRAN invited a few friends up to the Royal on Thursday night, having provided for their delectation an eight-round contest between Joe M'Auliffe and Tranter. ...
Article : 92 wordsAT these grounds on Friday the 17th July, the Grand National Handicap, of 20 sovs, will be run through all its stages. Nominations may be made at the Flemington Hotel ...
Article : 57 wordsSEVERAL first-class matches will be arranged to-morrow evening, and an eight-round contest between two well-known at others who had a little difference to settle their ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Tue 7 Jul 1891, Page 2
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