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  2. Advertising

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  3. SPORTING GOSSIP AND ANECDOTES

    BOXING (to "Ignoramus").—Most of the books on the subject will teach what you require, but the one by James J. Corbett is probably the best. ...

    Article : 467 words
  4. PRINCIPAL SPORT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK.

    Aug 16 : The referee stopped the fight between Sam Langford and "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien at New York in the fifth round, after O'Brien had been sent to the floor, practically ...

    Article : 164 words
  5. AN UNPRECEDENTED FEAT.

    In small cricket, L. P. Collins, playing with the Gurkha Brigade team on tour in India during 1904, made a double century three times within 10 days—an unprecedented feat. ...

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  6. HOBBS INJURED.

    J. B. Hobbs, the Surrey professional, who has accepted the Marylebone Club's invitation to tour Australia with its team, recently injured the cartilage of his knee, and had to rest ...

    Article : 36 words
  7. A SIXTY-SIX YEAR OLD WALKER.

    John Sler, aged 66, of Bury, St. Edmunds (Eng.), undertook to walk 20 miles in five hours,. and accomplished his task with ten minutes to spare. ...

    Article : 30 words
  8. OUR SPORTS.

    You place a ball on a little pile, You hit it away about half a mile. The further it goes the more you smile. Then you wander after it—single file. ...

    Article : 18 words
  9. THE KING A WINNER.

    His Majesty's colors were again successful on the last day of the Newmarket First July Meeting, when his two-year-old colt Mirabeau, by Lord Bobs from Mirabelle, captured the ...

    Article : 65 words
  10. MEAN.

    It must be the very height of meanness to rob a horse of Its fodder. But such a case occurred recently, Pentland Allen, who took Lady Dudley and two other horses from Adelaide to the ...

    Article : 56 words
  11. MUSICAL CRICKET.

    A correspondent in the "Yorkshire Post" advocates as an additional attraction to first-class cricket the presence of a first-class band. "The greatest stone-waller," he says, "would become ...

    Article : 96 words
  12. A TOO COSTLY PASTIME.

    Sir John French has been asking how it is that shooting does not become a regular pastime in this country. says a writer in the "'Yorkshire Post" who further states that it may perhaps ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. BIG JUMPS.

    According to a New Zealand writer, the late Mr. "Larry'' Markey owned a horse named Rouser, by Messenger from Kate O'Shane, who on one occasion, while doing her preliminary for ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. THE PARLOR STRONG MAN.

    With the following few tricks the youth who likes to entertain his friends can easily build for himself quite a reputation as a strong man. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 567 words
  15. NOVEL HUNTING PRIZE.

    Mr. Joseph Sim, a Cumbrian settled in Canada, has sent a special prize for the best "Halloo" given on the field at the Eskdale (Cumberland) Hound Show and Sports on September 8. In ...

    Article : 140 words
  16. IMPROVEMENTS AT TRENT BRIDGE.

    There is no football played at Trent Bridge ground now. The ugly stand which used to be filed when Notts County were playing there has been removed, and the cricket area has ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. SOME GREAT CARP.

    Mr. H. T. Sheringham, a well-known English angling writer, recently caught a carp weighing 16lb 5oz sea at Cheshunt, England, on a light roach rod and line and lob-worm bait. The rod and ...

    Article : 123 words
  18. AFTER MANY YEARS.

    After a long service with the Porirua (N.Z.) stable as first horseman Charles Jenkins' connection with J. H. Presser and his patrons has ended. The number of winners and the amount ...

    Article : 108 words
  19. THE BOXING MAP.

    From the first blow to the knock-out: a "map" showing bow the great blows may be registered. The diagrams show the blows received by each boxer in the match between, Robert ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  20. ANXIOUS TO GO.

    An incident which caused no little amusement amongst the spectators, but which was by no means appreciated by the chief actor, took place at the Gisborne (N.Z.) R.C.'s Winter ...

    Article : 131 words
  21. NEARLY A DUAL CHAMPION.

    A. F. Grenda, Tasmania's champion cyclist, docs not confine his athletic efforts to pedalling, for he also favors football and wood-chopping. He has won good many chopping ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. OCTOGENARIAN GOLFERS.

    About ten years ago a great golf match was played at St. Andrews between the brothers Edward and Ernley. Blackwell and the brothers Mansfield and Norman Hunter. After being 6 ...

    Article : 106 words
  23. GOLF "PULLING."

    In an article on pulling. In the "World of Golf" William Wilson says that "If a ball is hit properly on a perfectly true green. no power on earth will cause it to deviate from its ...

    Article : 179 words
  24. SLEEVE MIRROR FOR MOTOR CYCLISTS.

    A small convex mirror, fastened to one of the sleeves at the wrist by means of a rubber band, is a handy little device for motor cyclists. By lifting upright the arm to which it is attached, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  25. MORE TO COME.

    George Gray has now made 24 breaks of over a thousand. ...

    Article : 11 words
  26. HIS SECOND WIN.

    Hector Gray has headed the list of winning jockeys in New Zealand two seasons in succession. This year his total was 79. He is regarded as a good judge of pace and a ...

    Article : 31 words
  27. THE SEVEN AGES OF GOLF.

    All the world's a course, And all the men and women really golfers : They have their clubs, and subs., and entrance fees. ...

    Article : 219 words
  28. A TRAINING HINT.

    Athletes sometimes make the mistake of training right up to the day of a race or other contest. This is an error of judgement, which is often at the root of otherwise unaccountably ...

    Article : 265 words
  29. "THE REAL WHITE HOPE."

    "The real white hope" is the self-conferred title of Jim Flynn, who recently knocked Al. Kaufman out of the running for championship honours. Flynn, better known as the Pueblo ...

    Article : 43 words
  30. ORIGINAL METHOD OF PAYMENT.

    A Sheffield motor cyclist, Mr. Frod Dover, who is travelling round the coast of Scotland, writes to "The Motor Cycle" that at one lonely spot he was very thirsty and milked a cow by the ...

    Article : 60 words
  31. WHEN OWNERS MISJUDGE.

    Instances are not rare when an owner and trainer both flounder rather badly in summing-up up horses which they have in their hands for important events. In the Derby, Lord Derby ...

    Article : 137 words
  32. DOUBLE CENTURY FOUR TIMES.

    G. L Jessop's double century (153 and 123 not out) against Hampshire last week marks the four occasion an which he has performed the Rent, and the second time that Hampshire has ...

    Article : 151 words
  33. A BAD BEND.

    The English jockey, the late Harry Custance, who rode in 19 consecutive Derbys, and won three gave his opinion of the Epsom course in the following terms:—It is very bad, as well ...

    Article : 94 words
  34. FISHY.

    A New York paper published the following as from Vancouver Washington:— Peter Swanson has returned from a trip to his home in Sweden bringing a remarkable fish ...

    Article : 224 words
  35. MODEST.

    During an interval occasioned by rain in a country cricket match, several players got entangled in a big argument as to who was England's best wicketkeeper. We decided to stand ...

    Article : 124 words
  36. WHAT WE MISS

    In an Interview with J. N. Pentelow P. R. Le Couteur, the Victorian Rhodes scholar, said : "I don't put winning before everything. I think my countrymen are a little too inclined ...

    Article : 131 words
  37. MATHEMATICS OF A PACK OF CARDS.

    Every card player probably has wondered at times how many combinations it is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 370 words
  38. "THE SWEETEST MESSAGE."

    Though Peter Jackson could not be said to have been the fighter he had been when he went down to Jeffries in San Francisco, his confidence was not one whit less than formerly. ...

    Article : 191 words
  39. TIGHTENING A TENNIS NET.

    Anyone who has ever played tennis will readily see the advantage of the net-tightening device shown, in preference to the old method of pulling the net tight by hand. All that is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 190 words
  40. "RAZOR" SMITH.

    W. C. smith the well-known Surrey. bowler. is known to the English cricketing fraternity as "Razor." and several opinions have been expressed as to the origin of the name. However, ...

    Article : 146 words
  41. THE GRAND PRIX.

    Nearly 50 years have elapsed since the first Grand Prix de Paris was decided, and during that period racing in France has advanced with giant strides. Thanks to judicious purchases ...

    Article : 291 words
  42. LUCKY TO BE ALIVE.

    A Sydney man regards himself as lucky to be alive after an incident which happened in New Zealand when he lived there some years ago. He was shooting In the final of a marksmen's ...

    Article : 218 words
  43. FREE-GATE RACING.

    A big free-gate racing fixture was opened at Salt Lake City (U.S.A.) on June 23 conditions under which many farmers and other people made their first visit to what is described as ...

    Article : 150 words
  44. ASLEEP AT HIS POST.

    At a recent English meeting an individual entrusted with holding the white flag at the starting-post went fact asleep during a long delay at the post. Even the bustle of the start ...

    Article : 89 words
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