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  2. A Curious Cricket Match.

    A curious match took place in the month of August, 1813, when Lord Charles Kerr made a match with J. Cock, Esq., jun., to play a game of cricket--his lordship backing his servant, James ...

    Article : 1,123 words
  3. PUGILISM.

    "Ingenuas pugni did[?] fideliler artes, Mollitos mores non sinit esse vivi." "The faithful study of the fistic art From mawkish softness guards a Briton's heart." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 343 words
  4. Truth must Prevail.

    GENTLEMEN,--In your last issue appeared a choice article signed "WILLIAM SPARKES," in which he has been kind enough to notice my treatment to him; I should not have noticed any ...

    Article : 570 words
  5. Fight between Mallet & Larkins for £15 a-side.

    This battle came off, according to agreement, on Wednesday last, at Long Reach, near . Purfleet, after a tedious water excursion. Larkins nearly turned the scale at 9st, while ...

    Article : 711 words
  6. THE PUGILISTIC CLUB.

    It was about this period (1814) that the question of forming a society to be called "The Pugilistic Club" was first agitated, and upon the occasion I allude to, a large party of the elite ...

    Article : 1,670 words
  7. The Poor Poet to his Purse.

    Thy levity of levities Thou empty purse! Thou sieve of gold-dust, were there aught to fall: Of genius and of fancy thou dry nurse: ...

    Article : 463 words
  8. THE FIGHT BETWEEN Grant and Haggerty for £50 a-side.

    If Corinthian patronage and West-end favour be for a while withdrawn from the time-honoured but at present disgraceful sports of the Ring, the proceedings of Tuesday last would go far to ...

    Article : 1,848 words
  9. THE AUSTRALIAN P. R.

    GENTLEMEN,--I should have considered the precious morsel, which appeared in your last issue from the above redoubtable Bill, beneath reply, but that the sporting public should be put "wide ...

    Article : 307 words
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