... THE AMERICA CUP. SIR THOMAS LIPTON'S NEW YACHT. The Press Association learns on excellent authority that Sir Thomas Lipton has commissioned Mr. Watson to design the new yacht which will next year compete for the America Cup, and that the Shamrock, the ...

... FEATHERSTONE AND AMERICA. CALUMNY ON YORKSHIRE MINERS. (BT OUE PRIVATE WIRE.) Apropos Featherstone, the following note from a correspondent of the St. James's Gazette may, remarks that journal, be worth giving. I was speaking (he writes) to a well-known ...

... THE RING IN AMERICA, CORBETT’S CONQUEROR AGAIN VICTORIOUS. SHARKEY BEATS KID A KFEN CONTEST OF TEN ROUNDS, (PRESS ASSOCIATION’S TELEGRAM, ) New York, Tuesday Night. The Lennox Club House here was densely crowded to-night by over 8,000 spectators intensely ...

... BOXING AMERICA. GODDARD, AUSTRALIA, BEATEN SMITH, OF COLORADO. (PKK.sS ASSOCIATION TT.LKCRAM.) Nr.w Saturday.-A stubborn fight, extending over rounds, was fought t night at the Olympic Club this city, between Goddard, Australia I Edward Smith, of Colorado ...

... OFF TO AMERICA, A SPALDING HUSBAND'S RUSE. Charles Creasey, of Spalding, but who has been employed at (irimsby, Lrought up at Spalding Police Court yesterday on a charge of: wife desertion. He had written a letter to his wife, in which he stated he was ...

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... OFF TO AMERICA. SLLSDEN YOUTH AND PENNY DREADFULS. At Skipton, on Saturday afternoon, a case illustrative of the effect of penny dreadfuls on the youthful mind was heard. Benjamin Hodgson (1G), employed at worsted spinning works at SiLsden, where ...

... BUXING IN AMERICA. McaCOY DEFEATS CHOYNSKI. A Central News telegram from New York says:—At the Broadway Athletic Club last night McCoy de- feated Choynski in the third round. There was much dissatisfaction at the referee’s decision. THE IRISH NAVVY MAKES ...

... THE AMERICA CUP. SIR THOMAS LIPTON ASKS FOR ODDS. A l'euter's New York telegram states that number of prominent yachtsmen and other well-wishers met Sir Thomas Lipton and his party on the Campania at the Quarantine Station. Sir Thomas, the course of ...

... BOXING IN AMERICA. THE FEATHER-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP. JOHNSON v. DIXON. New York, Tuesday. The fight between George Dixon, the coloured feather weight, Boston, and Fred Johnson, the Cockney , champion, took place at ten o'clock last night at the Coney Island ...

... BOXING IN AMERICA. SHARKEY BEATS CHOYNSKI IN TWO ROUNDS (REUTER’S TELEGRAM.) Chicago, Wednesday.—At Tattersall's yesterday, Choynski was knocked out by Sharkey in the second round in a six-round contest at catch-weights. Sharkey had the better of the ...

... TROTTING IN AMERICA. TWO NEW RECORDS ESTABLISHED. (REUTER S TELEGRAM j Memphis. Thursday.—A ream consisting D:r*t HaJ and Prince Direct yesterday paced mile in in. 5j3.. while Nervola paced two miies 4m. 21Jj. these performances are world's records. Weather ...