... safe your pocket, confident of a grandiloquent culogium in the newspaper upon the “ noble conduct of that straightforward sportsman,” who struck his pen through the horse's name when he had no chance, and was “not aware that his trainer had made the mistake ...

... sometimes I may be surprised into seriousness. As I find men and things that ccme under my nose thus I record them. A sportsman a sportsman, not a moral philosopher or city missionary. He believes himself and in his purenit, as all earnest men should, and ...

... straitlaced had their innings, and equine Yorkshire was bowled out. As the tobaccosmoke reeks upward, and the mellow whiskeys roll downwards, let the cheery talk flutter round the room of Barefoot’s year, and Memnon’s year, and Birmingham’s year, and To ...

... still continue to attract, overflowing houses.” How mysteriously she was announced before her appearance! Along with The Sportsman and Opoponax” she may be said to have enjoyed a divided sovereignly the ‘bus” and mural literature of London. Much of the ...

... who, in consideration of having freely granted the use of his grounds for the stecplc-ehasc, was clcarlv entitled to the honour, if would accept it. It wouldn’t do, was met with a torrent of objections at once, which quite put the Squire out of court ...

... THE SPORTSMAN. C APT AIK BARCLAY ALLARDYCE, OF URY. We extract from Dixon’s interesting ■work Field and Fern, the following characteristic sketches of the celebrated Captain Barclay, which we believe will new to the majority of our readers;— The estate ...

... THE SPORTSMAN. by the crowd, and who remonstrated accordingly. Whenever this took place there arose veil very to that which heard in the gallery of a transpontine theatre Boxing-night. Ninety-nine out of every hundred of. that swearing, groaning, blackguard ...

... Rue Bt. to draw up the statutes and arrange other preliminaries. The Right Hon. William Hutt has, it stated, declined the honour of a baronetcy, which Her Majesty proposed to confer on him for meritorious public services. It is reported in Paris that ...

... many strangers. —Dublin University Magazine. CRICKET. SOME THINGS THAT HAVE HELPED THE CHICSET SCHISM. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPORTSMAN. Sir,; think the you made last Tuesday will go toward clearing up of the cricket schism. Down here in the north we have long ...

... THE SPORTSMAN. BILLIARDS. MESSES J. EOBEBTS AMD W. C. KITCHEN AT THE OVAL. Last night (Monday) these celebrated artistes competed in game of 1000 up at the Surrey Club House, Kennington Oval, Roberts points. The room was crowded, and on entering, Mr Is ...

... races one of the Persian Ministers, Khan, having, it would seem, a grudge against our Minister, Alison, had all the carpets rolled and carried off, leaving to the corps diplomatique nothing but bare boards. Their Excellencies thereupon retired in dudgeon ...

... X scarce can sav • 1 must, unwittingly, have selected the place from a host of claimants, and elevated it into the post of honour. Later, when I had an opportunity of comparing notes with a pedestrian Captain Cuttle who was doing his chop in the kitchen ...