... 2miu. 24»ec., less 38 yards start; E. B. Turner, .Loudon Athletic Club, 52 yards, being a good second- . ■* The West Kent Football Club held .ffieir anminl athletic meeting last-SaturAiy at Camden Park, Chise}- and although wjftther was very unfavourable ...

... Hay-Gordon, of Liverpool, the celebrated football player, in the 220 yards hurdle race at Famworth. At Stoke he took the 100 yards and the hurdle race, and at Congleton defeated Gavin Tait, tin* well-known professional ped, who had entered in false name. A ...

... amateur batting, however strong, could possibly equal professional batting, much less stand against professional bowling. Now have a race of so-called amateurs who can not only surpass professionals with the bat, but can almost equal them with the hall ...

... brother so closely, beating him at times, that it is difficult to say which is the best at a sprint. do not think there is professional of his age who could live with him at 150 yards, and if he improves the next year or two he has done this, he need not ...

... SHEFFIELD FOOTBALL CLUB ATHLETIC SPORTS. 'l’ll.- annual meeting tliis well-known and poimlar elub took jdai-e on Monday last in the presence of some three thousand spectators, of whom great proportion were of the fair.sex. This elub is considered one ...

... to have commenced running in his 21st year. Though living in the neighbourhood, and being noted as a good all-round man at football, cricket, shooting, billiards, and all other manly sports, he was induced to try running, he entered at Ormskirk for the ...

... twenty yards Time, 12min. 45see. Milk Flai Rack (professional). J. Ashworth, Ramsbottom, 40, 1; J. Ashworth, llaslingden, scratch, Won by thirty yards. Time, smin. 20see. LEEDS BLENHEIM CRICKET AND FOOTBALL CLUB iinmml athletic sports this club came oil' ...

... his efforts in the one mile race at the Nottingham Football Club sports, May 23rd, the winner turning up in W. Gower, of London May 25th he ran in the One Mile Handicap from scratch at the Newark Football Club sports, but after having got through most of ...

... ATHLETICS. W. T. liivox (Turtou Football Club).—Had the letter to which you refer appeared in the .Uhl’tic \rii s, should have been only too happy to have printed your contradiction. It is our rule, however, not to insert replies to letters which have ...

... a protest against Hughes tie' ground that was professional runner, and that he hail competed for money prizes, so the matter rests until the committee meet and investigate the affair. 'Hie Turton Football Club sports were also great success, the entries ...

... nastic Club sports, where he scored his maiden win in _the 100 yards, but heating no one of any note: and at the Whalley Range Football Club sports he ran second to Sidney Smith in the 200 Yards Strangers’ Race. His first essay in 1872 was at the Owens College ...

... they had the management, handicapping, &c., in their own hands, and ns many of the prizes fell to local men, and several professionals were allowed to carry olf prizes, the meeting was in a fair way of going to the dogs. Fortunately the committee saw the ...