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MARGATE REGATTA

... husbandmen are busy with the plough preparing the ground for the Autnumn sowings; from the hazel coppices, ul nut-brown and blackberry-smeared urchins send fo on a shrill greeting, or hold up a c luster-five ta in exultation; and over all, without being ...

SPORTING NOTES AND NEWS

... n, and it is almost in this condition that we must look at it now. A few days prior to the advent of October, when the blackberries hang luscious oln the brambles, and the brown nuts drop from th'e clusters, the keeper goes, as is his wont, to the coppice ...

SUMMER SPORTS AND PASTIMES

... doubt he is the best all-round man playing for England to-day. Hundreds in first-class cricket are getting as common as blackberries in August just now, one following the other with such rapidity as almost to bewilder the reader. What price Surrey for ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... proved fata to Edward., ) wh ho i ie te adn.When the water was reached Daniel was still in frontalf Broosnlchnowo; but Blackberry bad 00 Ifar Improved bin position that lho was now third, Lopez and IAusterlitz boing the next pair. Poesing tile Stanid ...

BETTING

... scrts of prices down to 16 to I, which cdds were taken frecly at the cloue of the room, the offert beieg p plenti fal Ps blackberries to back him against Diopbaatus. Alr. ls' two appeared to be out of favour, 10D to 6 being frequently offered agaeost each ...

Published: Sunday 28 April 1861
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1866 | Page: 4 | Tags: Sports and Games 

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... ?? Mr. Constable's Blackberry, 6 nrs Ot ?? 0 I (Winnertrerne bytuud.g 05 r Betting:- 5 to 4 apt Inverkeithing, 5 to 2 each agat Della C] RI Donna colt and P1hoebe Athol colt, and 20 to 1 agat B~lacbry After settling down Blackberry miade pn1from Placebo ...

SPORTING INTELLIENCE

... agt the othern. Stas Trap was Lsirt off', but was soon heade b y Blackberry, ivio went on well clear of Star Irap t and Florence St. John' with Ilulmer next, and ro ortiv last. Blackberry held aclear lead until entering the 9ie fr c Ihome, where Star Trap ...

BOXING

... if any, strings there are going to be tied to the cheque. Cheques in America with strings tied thereon are. as common as blackberries in Wimbledon's vales. Should the two men mieet, what a sensa- tion will it not cause. And again, asI have said before, ...

CRICKET

... on for four wiekets. On resuming, ?? and Lilly-white both scored with great, freedo Iboundary bite being as 1common as blackberries, and d Kelcoy etired at 78 in favolr of Mr. thaw. Heamoe was tlemited to bowl at the east wicket Nyhena the total bed ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... Aloily's Il.:weia. Alit. Kitng's Iteginabesit Mrt. Gillett's Geiteral. lir. Doilie(tb's aitnissi1 laeat Iir. ltucksorotl's Blackberry. lily. Fysotai's Factotumn heat Mv. inlietdc', Doutald. SPANISH BANDITTI.-Ari act of' great andacity was lately, perpetratted ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... been justdischarged. Thomas (iledhill, the unoonsious author of thse sad event, stated that, when returning home with his blackberries through Kiilburn- lane, he saw the gun in a hedge, when, without looking to see if it was loaded or not, never having handled ...

COURSING

... George ;TIe QuUArNGTON STagnS for o2 AlU-Aged Greyhounds, at ; ;£2 I0s. each. S Mr. R. Willowee Wrangle beat Mr. T. Smith's Blackberry U. 4Mesrs. Bolton and Kemp's laslowood IL beat Mr. 0. E. ?? Grangewood a Mr. S. Hyde's Bra knoell beat Mr. S. Skinner's ...