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  2. SYDNEY ATHLETICS.

    IT is many a long day since we saw such a contest in Sydney as that between Griffe and Jim Barran, the report the which I wired last week. Necessarily I had then to ...

    Article : 1,736 words
  3. Athletic Doings.

    THERE was not an overflowing attendance at the Melbourne Athletic Club on Saturday night. And yet the programme was attractive enough in all conscience, consisting as it did ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,251 words
  4. DAWSON DEFEATS NEEDHAM.

    The News of George Dawson's victory over Danny Needham in twenty-nine rounds at the California Athletic Club, on 27th July for £400, was very well received here, where ...

    Article : 241 words
  5. THE SPORTSMAN SONG: ENTITLED.

    WE'VE sent from Australia some famed pugilists:--It's the way we do things in Australia-- Lads who are terrors at using their fists-- ...

    Article : 779 words
  6. OUR BUDGET OF AMERICAN NEWS.

    THE San Francisco Post of 3rd June says:--"Billy Murphy's belt, sometimes known as 'Fox's dog collar,' is in soak. The emblem of the New Zealander's prowess ...

    Article : 808 words
  7. THE STEWART AND PICKUP MATCH.

    LAST Thursday night Edmund Pickup and his brother Abe arrived from Newcastle in the Buninyong. Next morning they called in at this office, where they were ...

    Article : 275 words
  8. AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

    Aug. 6.--Melburnian H. and H. Four-mile Open Handicap at Elsternwick. Aug. 20--Melbourne Harriers' (Members) Four-mile Point to Point Steeplechase, at Heidelberg. ...

    Article : 908 words
  9. OPENING HICKIN'S NEW HALL.

    ELSEWHERE will be found the programme Abe Hickin proposes to present next Monday on the occasion of his opening his new athletic hall. This is situated in Little ...

    Article : 224 words
  10. ALEC GREGGAINS CABLED TO

    AT a committee meeting of the Melbourne Athletic Club on Thursday afternoon it was decided to make an offer to Alec Greggains to come from San Francisco to box Dan ...

    Article : 124 words
  11. BOXING IN BALLARAT.

    IT is hard to get a ball for boxing in Ballarat at present. Deer and M'Auliffe were to box last night, but they could not get a hall, so a postponement had to be ...

    Article : 160 words
  12. DUGAL CAMERON TO DAN STEWART.

    I AM willing to throw Stewart at 12st with three hammers and six weights go-as-you-please style with 7ft run. Or I will throw him with three hammers on conditions that ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. SULLIVAN ON AUSTRALIA.

    THE following is from the police News:--"John L. Sullivan appeared at Joe Harris' benefit at the Columbia Theatre, Boston, 20th May, in the role of a public speaker. ...

    Article : 551 words
  14. CHARLIE DUNNE AND TUT RYAN.

    YESTERDAY a forfeit of £10 was put with us on behalf of Charlie Dunne. This is for a match with Tut Ryan, the side wager to be from £25 upwards. It will be ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. Who is Champion?

    "Give every man his just due," writes a South Ender to the Police News. "Did you ever notice what a lot of world's champions there are foisted upon the public? I see ...

    Article : 316 words
  16. DENNY TO BE MATCHED WITH GRIFFO

    ON Saturday night, after the Denny and Mateer contest at the M.A.C., there was some talk respecting a match between Griffe and Denny, the latter to scale 9st 4lb. ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. "LITTLE LILIAN."

    THE subject of our picture is the little lady who had been showing in Melbourne so successfully as a sharpshooter. She has now gone to Adelaide to fill an engagement. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. CUMBERLAND ATHLETIC CLUB.

    NEXT Thursday night there are to be two eight-round contests at the Cumberland Athletic Club. These are to be between Wright and Gibbs, at about 7st 10lb, for a trophy ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. Benefit to Jack Perryman.

    A CARD in another column makes the preliminary announcement of the benefit to be tendered to Jack Perryman. This is to come off in the Rotunda. Bourke-street, on ...

    Article : 69 words
  20. The Training of Athletes.

    A WORD as to the alleged dangers of training (writes Walter Dohm). "Athletes die young" is a warning I have often heard. Of course they do, if, after training, they ...

    Article : 237 words
  21. In Aid of the Unemployed.

    THE Austral Running Grounds have been given free by Messrs. Chamber and Fitzgerald for a meeting, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the unemployed distress ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. Log-chopping Contest.

    A LOG CHOPPING contest took place at Bloomfield on Wednesday last, writes a correspondent to the Express. The contestants numbered seven, but Higgins the ...

    Article : 113 words
  23. Fitzroy Athletic Club.

    MR. GEO. PHILLIPS, secretary of the Fitzroy Athletic Club, reports a satisfactory state of affairs. They have on their members' roll 127 names, and the work of selection is being ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. The Commotion Gymnasium.

    MR. W. CURRAN has returned from his honeymoon, and has taken up the management of the Commotion Gymnasium again. He has arranged a match between the ...

    Article : 106 words
  25. Billy Williams' Classes.

    BILLY WILLIAMS informs us that he is getting on very well with his new room at the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale streets. It is splendidly fitted up with sixteen-foot ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. Chiddy Ryan and Martin Denny.

    ON Saturday night an offer was made and accepted to back chiddy Ryad, of Sydney against Martin Denny for £100 a side. It will be seen by our Sydney correspondent's ...

    Article : 46 words
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