SIR.--You and your readers will doubtless by this time have learned with regret that all the efforts made by the Melbourne Athletic Club to bring about matches between Peter ...
Article : 2,094 wordsJoe GODDARD, the Barrier champion, is out with a challenge to any heavy-weight in Australia. He will box for from £100 to £200 aside, and a purse equal to the station offered by ...
Article : 46 wordsNEXT Saturday night, at the Apollo Hall, Jim Hall, the clerk middleweight, and Jim Ryan, who made a draw with Daunty Mace after twenty rounds, are to box the best of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 325 wordsA PRIVATE letter from Sydney says:--"Jackson, as you are no doubt aware, leaves for 'Frisco by the Mariposa on Wednesday next. He asks me to say good-bye to you, ...
Article : 329 wordsMR. COREN, the manager, writes:--The promoters, having secured a lease of the Columbia Skating Rink here, have opened the same as an athletic club. The ...
Article : 117 wordsJACK PERRYMAN has left £2 with us as a forfeit. He is willing to wrestle any man in Australia in the Greece-Roman style, the best of three falls, for £25 a side. ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE Footscray Football and Boxing Day sports at the Western Reserve promise this year to be considerably above the average. Mr. F. Spence and an influential committee ...
Article : 85 wordsAT the Crystal Palace on Monday night, 8th December, Jim Rodgers and Jack Perryman will box the best of eight rounds, one to win, for gate receipts, all to go to the winner ...
Article : 84 wordsIT will be observed, on reference to our advertising columns, that the acceptances for the Open Handicap of £20 in connection with the above close with the secretory to-night ...
Article : 98 wordsMR. S. ENGLISH, of the National Gymnasium, publishes the preliminary notice of the gymnastic exhibition to be given under his management at the Melbourne Town Hall ...
Article : 46 wordsMR. P. H. REYNOLDS has received a letter from Peter Jackson. The latter, after thanking Mr. Reynolds for the many kindnesses shown him while in Melbourne, mentions his ...
Article : 41 wordsJACK RAYNER asks Hackford to meet him at the North Melbourne at 8 o'clock on Saturday night. He will then be prepared to make a 24 hours' match. Rayner cannot see his ...
Article : 39 wordsTHE above sports are to be brought off on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on next Thursday. 6th December, under distinguished patronage. A capital programme has been ...
Article : 32 wordsThe above shows the centre buckle and two side sections of the Middle-weight Champion Belt, presented by P. H. Reynolds Esq., of the Royal Mail Hotel. The design and workmanship are by Messrs. Denis Brothers, Bourke-street, and are very artistic. It is open to all Australia, and is to be competed for at the Apollo Hall, the proprietor of which (Mr. M. Costello) will add £103. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 65 wordsTHE Sydney Amateur Gymnastic Club can well shake hands with themselves upon the thorough success of their first club tournaments. In every class there was a close contest, and ...
Article : 498 wordsUNDER date 20th November. Manager Sid. Cohen writes:--I had the pleasure of receiving two wires, which read as follows:--"Joe Harris back Billy Murphy against ...
Article : 380 wordsTRULY (writes our Sydney correspondent), the boxers are living in palmy days. Anyone with pretensions to champion form can now have a big purse to go for--a purse, the ...
Article : 352 wordsAs I write, Peter is fully determined to go off on Wednesday to 'Frisco. He has been boxing daily at the Athletic Club with Secretary Corbett, and is in very good fettle ...
Article : 213 wordsTRULY an interesting contest was that between the Californian native, Joe Choynski, and the corr-talk, Jim Fogarty. It served as a gal[?] between American and Australian ...
Article : 980 wordsIn consequence of the heavy rains which have fallen within the last few days the Flemington tracks have been covered with water. Consequently, the Handicap ...
Article : 74 wordsLast night at Newcastle Tom Lees and Mick O'Brien, of Victoria, met in a boxing match for £25 a-side and the gate. Lees won easily in two rounds. ...
Article : 66 wordsTHE interesting programme put forward by Martin Costello attracted a good attendance to the Apollo Hall on Saturday night. Jack Evans and T. Tope led off with four rounds, ...
Article : 932 wordsAGAIN on Tuesday night, at the Sydney Amateur Gymnastic Club, were these two battling for the supremacy of the ring. Twice before did they meet and make a draw ...
Article : 1,573 wordsA MEETING of the executive committee was held on 21st November at the Town Hall; Mr. Geo. Pownall in the chair. The secretary (Mr. A. Morrison) reported that up to the ...
Article : 157 wordsThe above club gave a gymnastic display in their gymnasium recently. Among other things the "Times" says:--It is not probable that another gentleman could be ...
Article : 339 wordsMR. THOMAS FERGUSON, the secretary of the Temperance Gala, has forwarded the programme for Boxing Day. All sorts of attractions are offered. In addition to the athletic ...
Article : 55 wordsA GRAND athletic sports meeting, under the patronage of the Hibernian. Foresters', and St. Andrew's Societies, will be held in the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings and grounds ...
Article : 109 wordsELSWHERE will be found the advertisement of the Grand Naval and Military Tournament. This has been fixed for next Friday and Saturday, in the Exhibition Building. Both ...
Article : 69 wordsAT an impromptu meeting of the Myers' Flat Recreation Club, it was (says a local correspondent) decided to hold the annual sports this year on Boxing Day. Several ...
Article : 62 wordsOUR correspondent writes:--A match to a finish has been arranged between Jerry Marshall, the champion colored boxer of New South Wales, and Billy Evans, of ...
Article : 48 wordsTHE above sports are to be held on New Year's Day. The pick of the programme is the Dandenong Handicap, the first prize being £7, and a cup valued £10 10s. Their dates ...
Article : 46 wordsELSEWHERE it will be seen that the time for receiving entries for the Horsham Athletic Club sports on the 26th and 27th December has been extended to next Saturday. The ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Wed 26 Nov 1890, Page 2
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