... As ought always to be the case on the concluding day of a race meetings, but few events were fixed for last Friday at Newmarket. These few -were got through with customary Newmarket punctuality, and there was no difficulty in reaching London by the evening. Of the seven races one resulted in a walk over, and only three of the other six are worth mentioning. The Newmarket Stakes has sometimes ...

... THE last row is over-the last spurt or start at an end and since i O .Ar. this morning the two crews in whose contest all England is interested have had nothing to do but think of the past, hope for the future, and bide their fate. The work of the last few days has helped materially to raise Cambridge in public favour, and at the same time to throw light upon the probable issue, to those who ...

... BA TTUE SHOTS. A FEW days ago a contest took place of extreme interest to the powder and shot world. The amount of the stakes competed for and the fairness of the conditions of the match attracted to the Great Pigeon Sweepstakes at Cremorne almost every sportsman whose skill with his weapon promised him any chance of carrying off a prize. Such full accounts have already appeared in the daily ...

... THEla continued drought, which has occasioned some little inconvenience to dwellers in towns, and severe losses to inhabitants of the country, has not suffered thoroughbred horses to fulfil their destiny without discomfort. Never was known a season in which training was a matter of greater difficulty. To keep a horse improving each day in condition for so0le weeks, and then to bring him to the ...

... MAD it not been for the idea that Tuesday and Wednesday would see some great change in the position of the favounites for the Derby, few, we fancy, would have taken the trouble to visit Bath in such weather as has continued for the last few days. The course at Bath lies about three miles frcm the town at the top of a very steep hill, and it would have been difficult to pick out a bleaker spot ...

... TH-IS DAY'S CRICKET. ,l - - - - - - ?? . S9URIV v, LANCA\SLIIR] I a1)~at ?? O, vi'. cdi, ii,.: ' oa, .taol attoir,- inningn, 21C P , w ,rc iit- b'his Iliai'iIat tic' Imlire iltier tirnice Air. inaler L, v 'I 0' I n, o ?? CIIi Uilt'4 i'lLS ilr' I -I i ii t I i ~1:i1901 XX'atStOl and I, aricir. -a s. I!, O Mi A P 10 r, i cii,it't' .t Olt 1'wicket fhr a V I, I ~ ?? cmii II 111, aw i ILL i ~im ...

... TIlTS DAY'S CRICIKET. K1-NT ?? LAN.XASIJ11-E'. At Mit:'ditO ie tt Xnc ci ?? t ?? m' cii ?? 0 I tAIM I VCht,'t diat) lt ?? -i t 'ais cit I ?? ?? .i ?? 1r, cz.!,i . i,n>inl s . I;l;rli ?? ! ; . o Ja-ly th: O oxsgiru .Ii. i. it. Lh. t a. ?? a'hilaitentintin t) 7t' Aom.i I L I) 'ttiniit) I I hi i.i > tLL'tI XS, - L I I It i O ?? I7 i IniLtinnr e. t, l. . ?? .Colc \. .t, fo t :) No ict ?? ?? ...

... CRICKE 7 AND CRIC'E TERS. A.N Ixi'AvulZ w Nvit\ I)R. W. ?? G-.SCt:. TilE cricket which Dr. W\. G. Grace has disployed this year has in some respects surpassed his achievemenits for a long time past, vhile some of his performances, against the Australiaii team in particular have beeln so brilliant as to conmlectely dispel the growing impre.rsion that the Doctor was getting old and stale. ...

... ---A AA 1 ?? -1 I-al f l -ot i -0nno TlELRE were several meetings last week, both in north and south; but the only race of any interest, except to betting men, was the Breeders' Foal Stakes at Redcar, the running in which shed some little light on the approaching St. Leger, inasmuch as it conclusively disposed of the pre- tensions of Mr. Perkins's Lucy Glitters, who, although no reasonable ...

... MI.C.C. v. I ENT. 1 ! . le\:- atte ?? of spectotor, at I.or Is this mornin- at tht ?? cenment (at IO.i5) of tl- I! : 21 ' :: I it cold ioatlier. Ihoe 1.(CC. conweenced tihoir fiist inIr.I:Igs withl Horoiby and S Orio totl~ 00 I! of Chritophirsoru nod Wootton. Runs came faot, and at 12.40 the score seas 4,, 1K: IIo ri is.kt. ?? 2.4 ScoLtoo on.- b, for .o, and J. S. RtO1iiI followed, 5o for one. ...

... TIlTS DAY'S CRICKET. ETON v. HARROW. I a -ch oasrem Imel at Lord's to-day. Vesterday thel larrow team had all the I. ic ?? Twenty-oix wickets fell duiring the (lay for 360 run~. The ten Eton '1lic fell (1LI%, S2p : O1ritS ; I Cl stecn arroW ets eaC ?? 278 , and tus '+ ?? ,c I-tnght's play tile Dark Bluhes, with four wiclicts to fall in their second V 1' re 190 rl1~ns to the good. 1 Ie ...

... THE XVIMBLEDON MEETING rsotltirn tv2q I-Aid-,1 -F -l;1 ?? () 1y one competition was decided at Wimbltedon yesterday. In the match I e te mls of O'xford and Camibrid.ge for the H1umphry Challenge Cup, () tzid!e 'h m l SS pointS, their aggtregate being 6'4 against 540 made by ji (10 he numliers last year were :Oxford, 66a_ Cambridge, 614. -Ij fa dhl4-it this Near is attributed to the state of ...