FROM accounts received by the last New Zealand mail, the fourth annual championship meeting, held on the Basin Reserve, Wellington on the 11th February under the ...
Article : 697 wordsNext Saturday night the Cumberland Athletic Club promise a capital programme. They have the following material to choose from:--First will come a match between Tut ...
Article : 136 wordsVICTOR and "Summerboy" to be matched. Rev. William arrived in New York on the 17th January. Goddard has sent money from America. ...
Article : 1,117 wordsON Wednesday afternoon Tom Essler and Stan Osborne met in a aix-round go. Every round was fiercely contested, Essler getting home repeatedly with his left on Osborne's ...
Article : 248 words[?] ...
Article : 1,026 wordsTHE Miswera, was delayed on the coast, hence it was, afternoon on Thursday before the landed her passengers and people who had been looking out for friends by her were ...
Article : 1,088 wordsNEXT Monday night, at Hickin's Athletic Hall, Tom Duggan and Bill Doherty ate to box the best of 20 rounds for a £25 purse. On the following Saturday Lijah Jackson ...
Article : 53 wordsTHE athletic events include the St. Patrick's Handicap, 130,200, and 250 yards, for which the first prize is £7. Nominations are due 1st March; acceptances on the 8th, ...
Article : 45 wordsSIR,--Please allow me space to place a flew facts before your readers re the Benalla sports committee ol the 28th of January last. I ran in the Hurdle Race off scratch ...
Article : 405 wordsMESSRS. John Purcell and Michael Purcell, jun., the hon. secs., have a mixed programme for the 17th March. The athletic events comprise running, jumping, tilting in ...
Article : 49 wordsON Saturday night Martin Denny and Pluto had an argument in Swanston-street that ended in blows. Pluto went away for his backer, with the intention of having it ...
Article : 117 wordsMR. W. M. RYAN, hon. secretary, forwards the particulars of his club's fixtures. There are events to suit all classes of athletes, ranging from the St. Patrick's Day ...
Article : 55 wordsPARTICULAR attention is directed to the fact that nominations for the Colac sports close next Thursday. ...
Article : 17 wordsMR. DICKSON, president of the Olympic Club, New Orleans, is anxious to arrange a contest, to take place in April, between Frank Slavin and Joe Goddard for a nurse of ...
Article : 324 wordsNOMINATIONS for these sports close tomorrow. This is a foot worth noting fay athletes. ...
Article : 16 wordsELSEWHERE will be found the extended advertisement of the Bunyip athletic sports. Mr. De Amyand, the sec., has certainly prepared an attractive list of events, with such ...
Article : 57 wordsMESSRS. W. Deagan and A. M'Laughlin the joint hon. secretaries, forward the Dookie list of events. The Sheffield Handicap carries £20 in addition to a five-guines cup ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 460 wordsTATURA Show Grounds are to be occupied on Easter Monday with these sports. First will come a grand procession of characters in costume, and this will be succeeded by an ...
Article : 67 wordsTHE above club proposes to give away over £60 in prizes on Easter Monday, of which the Cup takes £22, the Hurdles £10, the Mile £10, and the Easter Gift £10. Their dates ...
Article : 46 wordsTHE principal events for decision on Easter Monday will be found in another column, over the signature of Mr. W. J. Bessell, the hon sec. Entries are due on ...
Article : 39 wordsLast Wednesday evening the Victoria Athletic Hell, Port Melbourne, was crowded to witness the final bout of the 10st competition for a silver Waltham watch, presented ...
Article : 285 wordsTHE Easier carnival and sports are to be held in Prince's Park. The list of events includes a Sheffield Handicap, of £20; Carnival Handicap, £10: Half-mile ...
Article : 45 wordsEntries for the various events in the Omeo programme close on the 9th March. Athletes should make a note of this. ...
Article : 22 wordsA brilliant send-off, and one worthy of the occasion, was given to G. W. Burston, Esq., president of the and one of our best known and popular cyclists, by his ...
Article : 2,081 wordsEASTER MONDAY should be a busy time on the Numurkah Show Grounds, when a most diversified programme will be presented. The pick of the list is the Sheffield ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE 12 hours walking match between D. M'Cane and M'Keown was commenced in the Bijou Theatre, Bourke, on Wednesday morning the 15th February. ...
Article : 537 wordsQuigley and Deuchars battled on Saturday night at the California Club. It was a vastly exciting fight all the journey after the first round, which was slow till just on the close. ...
Article : 590 wordsYOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, 16th January John L. Sullivan said to-day--" My career as a fighter closed with the match with Corbett. I have retired from the ring, and under no ...
Article : 53 wordsLAST week the Hon. Sec. of the Bendigo Amateur Athletic Club forwarded to the THE SPORTSMAN office for Jack Perryman's signature the article for the latter's match with ...
Article : 89 wordsTHE sports in connection with the above picnic were held at Ballarat on the 18th inst., with the following results:-- Maiden Plate. 150yds--Downie, 1; Davis, ...
Article : 293 wordsTHE Broadford people are to hold their annual sports on the 25th March, when some capital fun is promised. The Sheffield Handicap will be worth £16, while the ...
Article : 53 wordsWE have letters in our rack for Messrs. J. Kershenong, W. Lindsay, A. Morgan, W. J. Hackford, W. Flanagan and Professor Miller. ...
Article : 23 wordsAT the annual meeting of the Eaglehawk Athletic Club last Tuesday evening the secretary reported that one of the runners who entered for the Sheffield, 300yds, and ...
Article : 124 wordsMR. WALTER GILBEY'S purchase of the famous hackney sire, Danegelt from Mr. George Boudass of Hunmanby [?]shire for 500 guineas bears eloquent testimony ...
Article : 216 wordsA MEETING was held at the Gloucester Hotel, Collingwood, on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of forming an athletic club. Mr. R. Burgess, who occupied the chair, ...
Article : 180 wordsTHE Pacific Club, San Francisco, offer to put up a purse of £1000 for a contest between Ted Pritchard and Dan Creedon, middle-weght champion of Australia who ...
Article : 64 wordsMR. JOHN DE GRUCHY, the secretary of the Eight Hours Sports, is commendably prompt with this year's programme. This latter is worth the attention of athletes. ...
Article : 55 wordsTHE athletic events in the mixed programme for the 15th March, in aid of the Daylesford Hospital, include a Sheffield Handicap, a Hurdle Race, Woodchopping, ...
Article : 46 wordsJOE GODDARD and Edward Smith of Denver, Colorado, have agreed to box for a purse of £1000 and a bet of £500. ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Tue 28 Feb 1893, Page 2
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