... SIi I -l T7 I ( ?? f - (i E ?? I S LAVN SAFE. WE RECEIVE A CHEERY LETTER FROM THE FIGHTER'S WIFE. CHARLEY MITCHELL WRITES US ON THE JACK BURKE MEMORIAL. COFFEE COOLER AND DICK O'BRIEN M1ATCHIED. Two Good Battles In America ; Sam Kelly's Challenge; Bouts at the Glengall and at Sheffieldp and all the Fistic News of the Week. ?? - - izA I 1.t . I- I nAVE had a charming and cheerful letter, I am ...

... ' ,ASSOCIATION IMATCHES. ENGLAND v. IEXLAND. T IS, the first of the Association Inter- national matehes of the season, came off on the Trent. Bridge Ground, Nottingham, in the Presence of a large concourse of spec- tators. 'Twopowerful teams were selected, and with one exception each eleven took the field as originally chosen. Bassett, the well- knowan West 'Bromich forward, who has ...

... ?? -. I RBoom I ?cl %M 1~ei~byt;X~ityeaP pesents a nmo~h i~eiltt sbIlnS' It 't imp6,~bsle: .t point: with any ~oinp~ras~*i~ i, t~he ?? Ersofri eve [i;Bbl tr engsel isso ~iz~dthat no onep Rtanids .it with bketter ...

... ?R4dCING NOTES? WI :ViR~I wite TWQOd' 3IXACES , g t.X biO 0 Xjsy . ~EETIfiA A4i~ 'Ri G~ODMWid o;pened 'OIM i5hot':b~ fe leld Oai 4jo carei tl atlhe ,A tho'lidgh'id'rso' '.uSid' 'oti'j ihnnd cls inrd i;j~ Oii bahers ri&a etlW of t, whi-ro Ai to- on e C S1, 3&, f~'ol~r whibev wohdprob~ 3eahter 'o : isdom b +teh'abetdhrwd i jiaLO paeltion. On'y the walt~overibg .intheat'. T'oloo o feaut a eg o' ...

... A; TWENTY-FIVE MILE CHANNEL : . SWIM BY FRANK HOLMES, OF r: : 1,BIRMINGHAM. MR. FR&ANK HOLIMS, the; Birmingham ama- teur swimmer, who proposes to make another attempt' to swim across 'the; English ,Chan- .nel, :had intelded.to start 'on.hi's swil.: on .Fr~iday morning, but' there . was a strong wined off the land,' and it 'was' apparent it wfould R:be. useless 'to make the attempt.. 'Holmes ...

... RACING NEW2j:.- ,'LEICESTER AND ALEXANDRA PARK. NQTES^ AND SELECTIONS. THE mnost remarkable'faet about the first: two weeks' fat racing ha-s been the -ecenf- tri. perfoxuiorances of most of the horses. In, most cases dnly . a few were backed in their respective races, and' in some only a couple, which often' finished first and second.. ?? principal cause of 'this is the' back- ward conditifn ...

... Up Pril? c 11,11tq+ - PUGILISTS PAST AND PRESENT. SILVERf CUP PRFSflSTED TO TOM CRIBB AT THE CASTLE, HOLBORN. CRIBB AND MOLI.NEAUX. t. (Continuedf om 1 et zveek's Number.) Round 20--M olineaux, cheered by the result, came v up gaily, and evidently determined not to give Cribh n a chance of recovering himselT, went in at once with h desperate determination, and bored the champion c down. Round ...

... OXFORD AND CU MBRIDGE BOAT RACE. p l t, , . A -. i.X _ tee __ *1 A . £ . ,1 IranroA- f-rnI il FEW contests between the rival oarsmen from the Uaiversities of Oxford and Cambridge have been favoured with such delightful weather as that ex- porienced on Saturday, when they met for the forty- lirst time to row from 1'titney to Mortlake. Although somewhat threatening overnight, the weather was ...

... =0BCC~tY~o N SW~I A RAIGIIVS A LIKELY HALF=DOZEN FOR THE CESAREWIT&. DONCASTER AND ALEXANDRA PARK -PREDICTIONS. Tnn meetings which were held last week at 1) orbv and Kempton Park produced some very good fields, notably for the Peveril of the Peak Plate, for which seventeen sported silk, and the two Nursery Handicaps at Kernpton, but the feature was the, improved form shown by Sir Hercules, who ...

... BIREDIN v. DOWNER. THE race for the Quarter Mile Champion- ship between C. B.. Bredin and A. R. Downer was run on Saturday afternoon on the fine ground of the Rochdale Athletic Olub, in the presence of a crowd of some 13,000 or 14,000 spectatorg-this being a record atten- dance at, the Rochdale enclosure. Bredin was the favourite when the men took their places on the mark, 7 to 4 being freely ...

... 4;0*0 TEN;SP.: * , S . . .; A, . i. . . . DERBY. ARAnR ) s a t iveroolC A n .tuman' C'up..eicite~sa' .iirterest' than :tha~t onbelun ls yet no attmpt at speoislati'oh .has.biiecorded in: conec-' tion with .the DerJuthe 'chief conte^s that Iiass a',.place Xinft~ll~eprogrammes :iesued for, this week, It m'ay:be that ihe most at- tractive .;,of ' the> l iate, alitismn races of the kinsd is ...

... I 3EriWARD HANLAN, of Toronto, and William Beach, of Illawarra river, rowed over the championship course, 9on the Paramatta River, on Saturday afternoon, for 'the championship of theworld andstakes ofE500aside. The weather was fine, and enorinous crowds of people essembled to witness the coh6tst.' Beach -had'many supporters, as he was generally regarded as the coming oarsman of Australia, but ...