... o ENGLISH SPORTING NOTES. Lob-n, SATUmDAY.-No sooner had the rainy season terminated than winter set in with such severity as to raise the fears that the present week's fixture list would not escape interruption. The fears were unfortunately realised, an)d sport under National Runt Rules was not possible after Weduesday. The Croydon Meeting was only got through under difficulties, for whilst ...

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... E-tSPORTING : NEWS. -10IOHITABOB'S NOTES. edFRDYNGT 051 Dall aid cold weatlsrws xeeecda is Ssndowvn Park to-day. This did not prevent a as fair number of spectators from assembling. The ir- sport was of very moderate quality; but tile fields, as times go, were of fair size, and the racing was interesting. Mervyn made a very :efair Show in thle Grand Annual Hurdle Race, ~1 which fell to ...

... THE ASSSCIATION CAME IN ENGLAND. . - - - - I Despite the sever weather eipefleM4 dquig the IatcW ar mg i1rt Qt last week, co matches of imporlance under Asci S Lbsion rules had to be abandoned ether in the ozlt ar M4tira tlhndse the metroitSU distct. Loon u Oxfcd ad th@! toCndrid5&P acoedowtng to thedeatha otMrH.IL pays Ned MAItersonearlse othr contotote l tb to !owrins to the d5eWZrQ5 ...

... -- 3. RoB.RTS V. W. MITcELL.--But hObi' d was attached to the last day's p ray of the eo 2 a Roberts conceded M itchell 4,50 0 Feints in I 20aq barred, whichwsscoricludedat theEgypt= 7fLl v ,, on Saturday. On resuming in the aftermo n, v' r Mitchell, 9,689; Roberts, 9,622 ; the latter, whol sgh a were 105 and 263, ran on to 10,:61, to the 10,2B7 Of neut, and then in the evening, aiter some thJ ...

... I SPORMTG G. RACING. KEMPTON PARK NOTES. MONDAY NIGHT. The fickle natume of the English climoxte is once more demonstrated,and the change in the weather is oomplete. In place of the cold wave of Arctic intensity which prevailed during Friday and Saturday last, the atmosphere in the metropolitan ciioult is comparatively muggy, and little of the late snowstorm remains. That the sport to- morrow ...

... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, 5- . 6 NOTE'S AND ANTICIPATIONS. 1. .~St 'LONDON, FIRDID NIGHT. na n In dull and.cold, butfineweather Sandown ,l Park lleeting was to-day advanced another r stage, in the presence of a full number of o, d spectators, The sport was not of 8a 1 e very high class, but was interest- a d ing. Two of the six favouritee only got home successfully, and in the case of' Trefoil ...

... HUNTING APPORITMENTS. Sua U -C ¢ J.J t ?? La4J. Is 5J. THE: DUKE or BEAUFOnVS HOUNDS -AT 11. Wednesday, De. 3 ?? Foxham. Ftidaj, Dee ?? . Lower Woods, Saturday. Dee. 0 ?? Euflavington. LOaD FITZHARD!NOGWS HOUNDS -AT I.15, Thursday. Dee. 4 ?? . Quedgeley Green. Saturday, Dec. 8 . The Knnels, TUE V.WH. (CRICOLADE) HOUNDS.-AT 10,43, Thursday, Dec. 4 ?? Pope's Hent (by iavitation). &aturday, Dec, ...

... FOOTBALL NOTES, The danger of our winter game has been painfully accentuated during the past few days, when the chief topic of cuntversation among players has been the sad death of Mr. li. ;I. Walters, who succurnbed on Thursday to the injuries he sustained on the 12th ult. I-le was playing for the Casuals against St. Bartholo- mew's hlospital, at Wormwood Scrubbs, when he was accidentally ...

... RACING. SANDOWN PARK MEETING. ELMDRIDoE IiU-RDLLE-Stourhead I, Bedfellow i o 2, Cadet 3. Five ran. Stourhead has been dis- i e qualified, and the race awarded to Bedfellow. I t Barker has been fined £6, and suspended from A ridin a t the meetiu%. The owner of Stour- 4 chcad has appealed to the (,rand National Hunt. I n PsRINTE OP WALIS' S.9zPLxcirhsm.-BalderdaSh b r 1, Dominion 2, Little Widow ...

... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE vcry ?? by 10_yards. . Timc, 14rain. 18lloc3.J. F. Stand- fl rio6 (65eecs.) beat r, o. IIsrri30n tlmin. 45). AVon by 16 a vanb. Timo, 14min. 4&ses-F. Fmney (2c-3cr) beat L. ,e kirk (Imin. 30secs. ). It was AD interesting r.we up to about 1 703yart.>, when I'inacv went avay attl won by20y- Time, 141nin.2'b3sce.4.Nuttall {ecrateh) Tt J. Gaier (theiws ) 'lNle l rench ...

... S.PORTING NEWS.| ?? H e- - I- CHITABOB'S NOTES. THURSDAY NIGHT. Wretched weather was experienced at San- down Park to-day, a drizzling rain fallinut all through the proceedings. The sport we3 better than was expected, rnd the company, consider- ing all thinga, a good one. After Stourhead, for foul riding, and Happy-go-Lucky, for going the wrong side of a post, had been disqualified, ...