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  2. SPORTING GOSSIP AND ANECDOTES

    Yarmouth Corporation has decided to lay out a municipal golf course on the North Denes. ...

    Article : 12 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 535 words
  4. A GOOD INTRODUCTION.

    Maj. Beatty, now a Newmarket trainer, was the first to introduce the woollen jersey jacket for steeplechase riders in the Winter. ...

    Article : 2 words
  5. HORDERN'S SHORTCOMINGS.

    Hordern has not yet proved himself a Vogler a Faulkner of four years ago, or even a D. W. Carr, says an English paper. ...

    Article : 8 words
  6. RACQUETS CHAMPIONSHIP.

    Chas, Williams, the world's racquets champion, at New York recently beat Geo. Standing, the American champion, by 3 games to 1. The championship is therefore retained by ...

    Article : 13 words
  7. ON THE WRONG WAY.

    When horses are ewe-necked they are in stable parlance termed "to have their necks on the wrong way." Nine times out of ten these horses are "roarers," says "Larry Lynx." ...

    Article : 23 words
  8. A SEVERE TASK.

    Until recently, J. March, the starter, used to make a regular weekly trip to Belgium, going over every Thursday night, officiating as starter there on Friday, and then returning on the ...

    Article : 56 words
  9. BOOKED MONTHS AHEAD.

    So great was the demand for stand and enclosure tickets for the Scotland v. England International, at inverleith on March 16, that within little more than three hours of their ...

    Article : 25 words
  10. A GOOD INVESTMENT.

    About twenty years ago Gallinule, by Isonomy out of Moorhen, was purchased for something under 1000 sovereigns. He was sent over to the Brownstown Stud, Curragh, Co. Kildare. ...

    Article : 56 words
  11. FOOTBALLER BRINGS OVER £1000.

    Something over £1000 is the amount said to have been given to Aston Villa F.C. by Oldham F.C. for Hunter, the ex-soldier. His signing on for Oldham came as a sad ...

    Article : 38 words
  12. HOW TO KNOW AND JUDGE A BULLDOG.

    Now for a word about the training of a bulldog, says F. W. Ward. in "Fry's." This depends upon the owner, for a bulldog possesses no vice, or at least no well-bred bulldog creates ...

    Article : 199 words
  13. M.C.C. TEAM FOR ARGENTINA.

    The team which left for Buenos Aires on January 19, under the auspices of the M.C.C., and with Lord Hawke as captain, has been completed by the inclusion of E. J. Fulcher, a ...

    Article : 91 words
  14. DROPPED DEAD ON FOOTBALL FIELD.

    While a football match was in progress in Saughton Park, Edinburgh, one of the players, named George Stark, was running up the field when he dropped down unconscious. He was ...

    Article : 25 words
  15. HALF A MILLION FOR CYCLING TRACK.

    Indoor track racing has caught on to such an extent in the United States that some very fine tracks are in course of erection. In Chicago £500,000 is to be spent in erecting the ...

    Article : 47 words
  16. HEROES OF THE FOURTH TEST MATCH.

    J. B. House, F. R. FOSTER. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 9 words
  17. OLD-TIME FIGHTS.

    A slashing fight took place at sunrise on Monday. March 15, 1858, near the Abereromble River. New South Wales, between New Gardner, alias "Bristol Ned." and Jack Weaver. ...

    Article : 599 words
  18. "PLUGGER BILL" MARTIN.

    Apropos of the six days' racing events. It is interesting to note that "Plugger Bill" Martin, who, a few years back, rode with su[?] success on Australasian tracks, won the first big six ...

    Article : 75 words
  19. CHASED A SEVENER.

    In days gone by bowlers were, as a rule, not over-fond of work, and never thought of running after a ball that had got past them. But G. F. Grace was not built that way, and once ...

    Article : 57 words
  20. THE TRIAL SWING.

    The "trial ball" at cricket has become an abomination to spectators, who would like to hear of it being forbidden. In golf we have its equivalent is "the trial swing." which is ...

    Article : 43 words
  21. CRICKET ERRORS.

    According to "Wisden," Dr. W. C. Grace. when playing for the South of England against Grimsby and District, hit up 400 runs, not out reached the fourth century. But did he reach ...

    Article : 47 words
  22. ORIGIN OF BOOKMAKING.

    Unfortunately no record has been left to show who was the first bookmaker, but, writing of the year 1750, a sporting scribe says: "Betting was as slow in its growth as the American ...

    Article : 120 words
  23. OPPOSED TO TEA INTERVAL.

    Apropoa of the Test matches, one of the bugbears of cricket now is the invariable tea interval, which was introduced here by an Australian tem some years ago, says a London ...

    Article : 48 words
  24. LUCKY DEALS.

    Many pages could be filled with the tales of lucky deals in bloodstock, says "Tit Bits." The following facts may prove interesting. Rosaline was bought for 20 guineas at a sale ...

    Article : 101 words
  25. SALMON FISHING FROM CORACLES.

    The earliest form of water craft of which we have record is the coracle. It was used by the ancient Britons two thousand years ago. A survival of this primitive invention may still ...

    Article : 154 words
  26. FIGHT BETWEEN SNAKE AND IGUANA.

    Mr. Fransis Birties, the overland cyclist. while on his last trip across Australia obtained a cinemalograph picture of a fight between a snake and an I[?]uans. Many stories have been told of the terr[?] fights put up between these [?]roh enemies, but Mr. Birtles was not greatly impressed with it. The reptiles struggled and bit at one another for some time, but eventually they both appeared to be ex[?]ted. The snake was twined ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 134 words
  27. A JOCKEY'S IMPRESSIONS.

    It isn't easy to actually describe what it feels like to ride in a race by one race alone, said Bernard Dilion, the famous jockey, who has carried off most of the biggest plums in the ...

    Article : 152 words
  28. QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 words
  29. PRINCIPAL SPORTING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 words
  30. HUMORING A BAD-TEMPERED HORSE.

    It is strange when riding a bad-tempered horse, who will not run his races out, how one feels the very moment he is going to "throw up the sponge," before he actually does so, ...

    Article : 224 words
  31. LONDON, A.D., 1811.

    Oh! what an awful place. It was One hundred years ago; When every other fellow got And off returned a blow: ...

    Article : 8 words
  32. REVIVAL IN QUOITS.

    To-day there are unmistakeable signs of a rapidly growing interest in the pleasures and pastimes of our forefathers, says a writer in "Fry's Folklore has its little army of eager ...

    Article : 71 words
  33. NEW YORK SIX DAYS' RACE.

    There is evidently big money to be made by the cracks in the annual New York Six Days' Race. In the event won by A. J. Clark and Fogler (U.S.A.) last December, Kramer, the ...

    Article : 83 words
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