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BETTING OF THE WEEK

... BETTING OF THE WEBK. I Tattersall's, Monday. A moderate attendance and very little botting. Lireboat was the best favourite at the close for the Goodwood Etakeo, as Union Jack was for the Goodwood Cup, wbilst Leamington was in some demand for both events at the odds quoted. For the St. Leger Trumpeter waa backed at 8 to l for about 10O. The doings on the Nottingbam Handicap were too limited to ...

Published: Sunday 24 July 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Sports and Games 

FETES AT BOULOGNE

... The past week at that English colony, Boulogne, has been an unusually gay and busy one, the boat-races and regatta, announced respectively for Sunday and Monday last, attracting hosts of excur- 8lonists and a fleet of yachts. She boat-racing took place on the Liane on Snoday, and was only attractive to English spectators as a matter of curiosity, no Englishman being allowed to take part in the ...

Published: Sunday 24 July 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Sports and Games 

CRICKET

... CRI C K }i T. TlrE CARVSFORT AteloN CLUB.-The first annual general meeting of this club took place on Monday evening last, thc president, Charles H. Humpnhreys, Esq., acting as chairman. The report of the committee of last season, read by Mr. Walter Griffiths, the henorary secretary of the club, showed that the members already amounted to forty. eight, and that twelve gentlemen had given in ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1101 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Sports and Games 

OUR CRICKETING TABLET

... M~atches for the Week. Monday, at Lord's-Eleven Gentleistn and Players of England v. Sixteen of the University of oxford. Mr. Dark's match. Monday, at Sleaford-AlIi England Eleven v. Twenty-two. Monday, at Eafield-Winbledon v. Enfoeld. Monday. ?? v. Stontbridge. ModyndTedftat Southgate-Surrey' v. Southgate Clube. Tuesday at So tam -t~Soath Hants v. Winchester College. Tnesayat ?? v. Priory ...

Published: Sunday 10 July 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3355 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Sports and Games 

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING

... I What a change in the weather since the Craven Meeting; a change as marked as that from the circumscribed but picturesque and crowded Rhodee, at Chester, last week, to the expansive Heath, which now stretches around us. The Sunday morning was bright and calm, the Heath looked as smooth as a prepared cricket ground, strings of horses were out at exercise, a few spectators looking listlessly ...

Published: Sunday 15 May 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 10453 | Page: Page 3, 4, 13 | Tags: Sports and Games 

CHANTILLY RACES

... CHANTILIJY RACES. Sunday, May, 22. Fortunately, the weatheron Sunday was fine, anud in consequenee a vast number of persons, chiefly of the very highest class, went down from Paris to Chantilly, to witness tile Derby raee, which in France, as In England is the grandest of the year. From the neighboaring towns and villages' too, numbers of speatators assembled. The attendance of members of the ...

Published: Sunday 29 May 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1765 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Sports and Games 

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA

... NkWj[9RAUKI1T CRA.V61N XOGETLIU. 'fUrSSAY.-Accptr~cc for the NUWvacUXBT l{AwNio&F of 25 Bova ecccl, 15 fir, aod S only if declared, &e., with 150o Bovs added by the Joeehey Ciobnod60 fom he~rvnleeefnnd fo thee year oldsand upwards ; Winnrs aterpublcatin o theweigts F a handicap atrounting to 205 onsta crry7lboxtr; woncr ofciothr handicaps to carry 5ib ; of ay tw hadicon, bb etra fro th ...

Published: Sunday 13 February 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3508 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Sports and Games 

CHESS

... I' I EDITED BY HERB LOEWEKNTRAL. To Correspondents. ?? All comnamunications to be directed to Eu. Office, 3. Catherine street Strand, London. Chess Study by the Editor. IA KKt3d K R7th E R 5th K th K Kt2d White with the move wins. Problem, INo. 282, by Herr Willmers (of Vienna.) BLACK. WHITE. White to move and mate in four moves. G~Aea played between Messrs. Evelyn and Boden. White (Mr B.) ...

Published: Sunday 23 October 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1253 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Sports and Games 

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS

... HUNTING 0 APPOINTMENTS. STrAG HorDB. Ber Majesty's - Tuesday, Stag and Hounds, Binfield; Friday, Cookham bridge-at eleven. Foxc MomflD. Atherstone-Monday, Stapleton Village; Tuesday, Middleton Hall; Wed. napday, Gopsall; Friday, Coton House; Saturday, Hams Hall -at eleven. Badeworth - Tuesday, Barnsdale Bar; Thursday, Grove Hall; Saturday, Ackworth Moor Top-at half-past ten. Brambtam Moor ...

Published: Sunday 11 December 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Sports and Games 

SPORTING

... 1 ' 6POR71NO. e ,THE GOODWOOD MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY ItEWS. 0- Snt,--The A~mericans have shown us a horse at Of last in Starke, who has riot been here many months, and yet he won the first great event he was wantedi for, hie defeat by Its, Killigrew in a match the other day having caused, the layers B.of odds to accommodate his owner and psrty to their hearts' contest, sand they ...

SPORTING

... SQPOBRING. NE THE ASCOT AND MANCHESTER MEETINGS. Arm d,1 TO THE EDITOR. Or T1HE3 DAILY Nr.WS. Sol SI,-The clasbin~g of two such great meetings Ne'd as lhose at Ascot is to be regretted; but we must console Nit ourselves with the~ idea that it was unavoidable, the fixture I of Manchester for Whitsun weok being imperative, while it SE, is an equally long establiahed rule for Ascot to take ita ...

HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA

... Rai FIRST DAY. The two days' meeting at Henlley, unquestionably ~as the greatest rowing regstta in the kingdom, o~mmenced yes- r1037 torday, with a programme of the most interesting and attrae- nes tive eharacter, in which crews from the Universities of Ox- ins ford end Cambridge, the London, and other rowing clubs, eon, were included. The intense heat of the last few days wase tempered with a ...