THERE was a large assemblage of members and friends at the Melbourne Athletic Club on Thursday night to wish bon voyage to Mr. W. P. Macgregor, one of the club's ...
Article : 1,654 wordsFRIEND SPORTSMAN, -- Just a line or two re the proposed Jackson-Goddard contest which was to have taken place in this Club for a purse of £1100. I enclose herewith a letter ...
Article : 845 wordsTHE future promises to be a lively one at the Melbourne Athletic Club. On the 20th of this month Joe Choynski is to endeavor to dispose of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,253 wordsLAST week, when writing of the Jackson Corbett match. I took occasion to doubt the correctness of the cable news, and now on the top of other contradictory statements we have ...
Article : 674 wordsMRS. DINNIE. the mother of the famous athlete, Donald Dinnie, died on Saturday morning (11th April) at her residence, Wood Cottage, near the village of Kincardine ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsSATURDAY night's programme at the Apollo Hall furnished one of the sensations of the season. The principal item was announced as an eight-round contest between ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 372 wordsJACK BARNETT asks us to say that he is starting as a teacher of boxing in a room attached to the Zaroni Hotel, North Fitzroy Letters addressed to THE SPORTSMAN office ...
Article : 39 wordsST. LOUIS, Mo., 29th April. -- John L. Sullivan announces that he will be a candidate for Congress from the sixth Massachusetts district at next election. He says he could ...
Article : 49 wordsTHE above club holds its annual sports on 19th June, the programme for which will be found in another column. Handicaps are to be published in the local papers, while ...
Article : 43 wordsA FRANKSTON correspondent sends the following : -- As an outcome of the quarter-hour go-as-you please between Siddel and Hobbley at Morrington on Saturday week, a match ...
Article : 59 wordsTOMAHAWK CREEK, 1st June. -- SIR, -- At the Irrewillipe sports, held on the 30th April last, I was a competitor in the mile race won by A. Sherry. I ran second, and ...
Article : 605 wordsPAT O'BRIEN has written to Broken Hill that before he can go so far to box Meteer he will require fair expenses. ...
Article : 26 wordsLAST week a wire reached us from a well-known patron of sport to the effect that he was prepared to back Tom Burrows against Saxon at club-swinging. The stakes to be a ...
Article : 52 wordsSIR, -- I have been told that Jack Saxon is anxious to make a match with me in Indian club-swinging, so my hacker has deposited a tenner in your office to make a match for that ...
Article : 93 wordsON Thursday articles were prepared in THE SPORTSMAN office for a match between Tom Tracy and Tom Duggan. They are to box at the Crystal Palace in six weeks' time for £20 ...
Article : 213 wordsTHERE was a very good attendance at the Columbia skating Rink on Saturday night, when Mick Morrissey and John Francis boxed eight rounds for £10 a side. Morrissey ...
Article : 79 wordsON Thursday night there was another show at the Fitzroy Gymnasium. The programme consisted of singing, dancing, and boxing. In the latter Jack Graham and Dan Keely ...
Article : 100 wordsHEFFERNAN, who arrived from Broken Hill on Saturday, asks us to say that he is prepared to box any middle-weight in eithe[?] an eight-round contest or to a finish. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,111 wordsTHE Stawell Amateur Athletic Club held their first annual Birthday meeting on Monday, 25th May, in the Agricultural Show Grounds. The weather was fine, and there was a splendid ...
Article : 442 wordsTHE patrons of the noble art in this district had s little treat on Saturday night, in the shape of a genuine contest held in the Barwon Athletic Club rooms. Mr. E. B. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsNOTHING definite has been fixed between Allen and Burge yet, but if Dwyer (Allen's backer) puts up a deposit, it should lead to business. If he does not, when Allen gets ...
Article : 145 wordsCALIFORNIA ATHLETIC CLUB, 29th April. FRIEND SPORTSMAN, -- Many things of importance in fistic circles have transpired since my last. The first item is the signing of ...
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Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), Tue 9 Jun 1891, Page 2
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