... .lYAltJhi)UON WiMLIf 1X1E50IUNU. Sill r Tar nineteenth annual competition of the National Rifle the l Association opened on Monday. The number of entries api l showed a considerable increase, and the applications for Ne X tout accommodation in the Association camp were also VW i largely in excess of those of last year, whilst the Ba ) members' camp and the various regimental encampments NO l ...

... 7I w i n Pr ?t ttl B. le.- PUGILISTS PAST ASD PRESENT. f JOE GOSS AND JACK ROOKE. c t TaIs plucky contest was fought on Tuesday, September- t 20th, 1859, immediately after the battle between Sayers a and Brettle. The sudden and unexpected manner in. which the latter contest between the chief performers t terminated produced the utmost excitement round the ring, and it was some time before all ...

... - T. , . ,4 o Iw~: * Satstd~ywbilst pllayipg in 716fObtlifill ins-fo at i C.orbece~iC~tPeidig ?? Bricks ' hlcn~ up, liWO YOU1t9 Men: ~Ii&s~ Westacid Cooper woreiseverel I-aurd. T.he formerlhad his)jioulder dia- * loatedejidthe attr h1is9 log vaij'fbhdlj, 6i~t. E!~rd~fts Wai~5k-, the W j~f 0:!c3, Y ?? Bktsun, whS etrlcioga ?? morning, felt down anti set laetbrcotig e r-hm he buekcets ofaeou he ...

... qq)e jjfl' e t~t -PL PT-- ?? PUGIILISTS PAST ANTI PRESENT. r THE FIGHT BETWEEN CRAWLEY AND WARD. C A o ?? to the great pugilistic organ of the day, c Bel''s Life, this encounter came oil on January 2nd, v lf27. The ?? and interesting match wast decided at Royston Heath, Cambridgeshire, within half h a mile of Royston Town. When all was in readiness the l toss for choice of sides was won by ...

... TRAI .GRRUV TRBAINING FOR TIZE UNIVERSITYBOAtT.RAO.M A I. . .. . I . ?? ?? . .. _ against the uar contemporary ?? launches at this time of to support year into theusual diatribe npnn the 'inajrious phy aiol to warrant effects of the training for the University Bost.race. With was then due deference to the opinion 6f high medical authorities, we should place more reliance upon their gloomy prog ...

... TDE LLUSTRATED POLICE NEW SATTXRDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1894. THE POPULARITY OF FOOTBALL. li thre stormy weather which prevailed all over thle Alidlauds and the North of England on .9s urday interfered with the satisfactory d2ecision of the games in the second round of tle competition for the Football Association Cupl, it apparently did not keep the follotvers of the gameo at home, for it was ...

... f ~ A 7 I sI p ?? A B NIGHT AT THE EXCELSIOR HALLU THE PITMEHiS CHAMPIONSHIP.' PEDLAR PALMfER ON TOUR. Boxing at the NHatinal Sporting Cub, Seast Sheffield, and Hioloway. , Ttnto c n T.imitm.d havra lnf.t.,vb7 n- -n I .T-nlr mThlc-. nnci hia ±v1in, T.-in PAwpro - . FIXTURES FOR FEBRUARY. 10.-Mr. J. T. Hulls' Special Competitions, at the Excelsior Hall, MansifordStreet, Betlinal G-reen. II.-C. ...

... .- .. . ..E I NEWEARREt AND3 HURST PARK. NOTES' AND. SELECTIONS.. SiNDoWik concluded': a busy' week for fol- lowers of ietfrogolitan racing, but as it was under National3 Hunt' Rules I should ,ot refer~to it if it Iwere not for the easy victory of ?? - Mystery in the Grand Interhi- ^tional Steeplechase, carryin. I12st 91b,.: thus amplT' justifying my selection of him' for the,,rand National, ...

... ] I LINCOLN AND CEAND NATIONAL. NOTES AND, SELECTIONS. THERs has not been the amount of specu- lation -du-ing the past week on the above races that I expected, and this in spite of the fact that we are almost rwithin hail of each of these events, and that owners should bh this time have pretty well made up their minds as to their candidates for both of thehse importanzt handicaps. Few stable ...

... R-AING- NEWS. .. , . A - ., ?? I - NEWMARKET AND. GATWICK.- , 2~NOTES AND SELECTrONS. ]DOWN11AX, as generally expected, won the, , London Cup at Aliexandra Park last Satur- day easily enough, and hfully sustained hi-s e reputation as one of the best of our three- year-olds, but the position 60f Lackford fin the race discounts the form considerably, for a candidate. for St. Leger honours in S ...

... RACING NOTE&.. ?? I:: A.: 'r I A E WARIVIC1 AND LEICESTERC. SELECTIONS. WITn truth it can be said, that the pre- gramme issued from Alexandra Park last Saturday was one of the. most attractive since the introduction of. racingh ill the northern - stboib upwards of thirty years ago. 'The London Cup was an.4interesting 'secoond edition of the Lincolnshire landi- cap, and-the decisievictoryof ...

... FOOTBALLERS SERIOUSLY- HURT. - 4 - .. NOT IN A MANTCH, BUT IN A RAILWAYS COLLISION. 'AN unfortunate railway. accident happened ...