On Monday night Morris Ewans and Jack Perrymen met at the Apollo Hall in a wrestling contest--five styles--for L20 and the middle-weight championship. There was only ...
Article : 423 wordsThe Apollo Hall was well patronised on Saturday night on the occasion of the meeting between Harry Mace and Morris, who had arranged to face each other for eight rounds ...
Article : 1,619 wordsLast week we published the telegraphed result of the Goddard and Sullivan fight at Broken Hill. And a desperate one it was Goddard went in to make the pace from the ...
Article : 1,396 wordsLast night, at the California Athletic Club, the long expected fight between Jack Dempsey, the middle-weight champion of America, and La Blanche, the Marine. ...
Article : 450 words"I must do Slavin the justice to say that, not being acquainted with modern society, he did not know his in inviters, and I am sure, from what the Australian told me, that he would ...
Article : 534 wordsSome five or six weeks back a gentleman living is Albury wrote to THE SPORTSMAN to say he had an Sat lad who was a good boxer, and whom ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,747 wordsLondon "Sportsman" New York exchanges of the 11th August, state:--Tom Lees, the Australian middle-weight, sailed for London yesterday, therefore be ought to turn up at ...
Article : 1,204 wordsTattersall's Hotel, Adelaide, 7th October, 1886.--I am writing to let you know that I am in Adelaide just now. I have made a match ...
Article : 284 wordsAttention is again directed to the entertainment to be given by Professor Miller at the Hibernian Hall to-night. That it is a decided novelty none can doubt. To the spectators ...
Article : 248 wordsSubsequent to the usual contest at the Apollo Hall on Saturday night, and after the hall had been cleared, a colored boxer, named A. King, intimated his desire of having a go ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 534 wordsFrank Smith's Eight Hour Handicap, at Botany, yesterday, was won by C. Hummerstone (60 yds), W. Monnock (57 yds) second, and R. Stokes (58 yds) third. Time, 10sec. ...
Article : 168 wordsA grand carnival in to be held on the Kyneton racecourse on the 16th October in aid of the Sacred Heart Convent A mixed programme of athletic and equine events has ...
Article : 47 wordsMr W. J. Tonkin, the hon. sec., has forwarded the programme for the Avenel I.O.G.T. demonstration, on the 11th November. And a capital one it is, comprising events of all ...
Article : 64 wordsThe California Athletic Club souvenir programmes, issued on the occasion of each month's contest, give "the present champions of the different fighting weights" as follows:-- ...
Article : 51 wordsThe West Melbourne Alma Football Club held their third annual concert and ball in the North Melbourne Town Hall on Friday evening last, to celebrate the winding up of the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe above society advertises elsewhere the programme for its thirty-second annual grand gathering. There is no more favorite fixture in Victoria than that held in Princes ...
Article : 200 words4th October, 1889.--Articles of agreement between Theodore Lawrence and Harry Weber to wrestle in the Graeco-Roman style, best two falls out of three, on Wednesday the ...
Article : 87 wordsIn another column we publish the programme of the Geelong A.N.A fourth annual sports, to be held on the Geelong Football Club's ground on Saturday, 9th November. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe "New York Sun's" London correspondent sizes up Jem Smith, the English pugilist and his standing at home, as follows:--"He may be described as a thick man able to take ...
Article : 110 wordsIt is said that Pat Sheedy, John L. Sullivan's former manager, recently broke a fare bank at Saratoga. He began to play early in the evening, and made more lo[?]ses than gains ...
Article : 225 wordsJim Saxon, of New Zealand, and young Tully, of Carlton, the winner of the recent 10 stone competition, meet at the Apollo Hall on Saturday night next. Both lads are possessed ...
Article : 71 wordsSIR,--In reply to Mr Hart's challenge, sent to THE SPORTSMAN through a letter to Mr Edwards, I would wish Mr Hart to understand that I will make n match with him ...
Article : 77 words"Johnny Griffin was all right so far as fighting was concerned," writes a San Francisco friend. " He did well against a veteran general like 'Billy' Murphy, but he was too ...
Article : 190 wordsJohn L. Sullivan arrived in New York from Purv[?] Miss[?]ssipp[?]. The Champion met with a great reception at the Vanderbilt Hotel. In the course of an interview he said:--"I have ...
Article : 151 wordsThe eighth annual gala of the Order of St. Andrew is to be held in the Friendly Societies' Gardens on the 9th November. A special feature is the art union, for which prizes ...
Article : 83 wordsNominations for the Kilmore Sheffield Handicap of L20, and Handicap Hardle of L10 (particulars of which appeared in our advertising columns of last week) close on Friday ...
Article : 41 wordsOn Monday night next Tut Ryan, of Carlton, and Chris Moloney, of Fitzroy, meet at Tom Curran's hall, Royal Hotel, at the top of Swanston street, in an eight rounds contest ...
Article : 64 wordsThe above handicaps will be run on 21st and 22nd October. Nominations for the 130 Yards and Mile, 15 Minutes Go as-you-please, 440 Yards, and Two Miles Walking Handicaps ...
Article : 59 wordsA card, published in another column, invites applications for the position of handicapper and judge for pedestrish[?]sm on the above grounds. Particulars can be obtained ...
Article : 40 wordsThe annual sports of the combined St. Francis Xavier and St. Patrick's Colleges are to be held on the East Melbourne Cricket Ground to-day. A good programme is to be ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 9 Oct 1889, Page 4
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