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That wonderful little - WetRG barn, Juzmmy Wilde, hain. acorar. another great triumph. At the National Sporting Club be met Sid Smith in a fifteen rounds can
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| test for sixken of £200, and the London, December 24. Is star was so hopelessly out-alused Sport has lost still smother of that the referee stopped the fight its main props by the death of easily in the eighth round. How Lord Alverstone. Seventy-three truly extraordinary the performs
On Friday, the 4th the Post Office will years of age the ex Lord Chief ance was can best be appreciated be open from & to Ram and there will be Justice was not known by the by the fact that Smith, who was one delivery and one-collection of ordinasy present generation for his prowess the fly-weight champion in 1911, a Sunday.
The Money Order Odics wil be entirely To Mars, JD. 1992, K. Matsumoto,anding as 10 am. to-day. 0:00 sobre on the playing fields but just as had the enormous advantage of17 tioned. he will be remembered by the Ibe. When the men came to go
Miss Jan — Chingwandao, 24th Coxrespondence addressed to enseny
Jan Coal- & Ca general public se the Judge who on the scales Smith was returned subjects in Chias, Samen, Fresia and Man Todo Mann Jap, sa 1,350, F. Hashimoto, sent Chippen to the gallows, hejas 8 st. 2 lb., 'whilst the Welsh not be tramedisted. will be recalled by sportsmen youth jumping on in ordinary for his wise leadership, extending clothes including hat, boos8 and the Ottoman Empirs are suspended, over thirty years, of the Sower overnost, did not reson 8 Ħ County Cricket Club and the And yet Smith was made to look Amateur Athletic Association. A something like a novice. He was Cambridge man Richard Everard utterly bewildered by the speed Webster, as was then his name, of Wilde, who darted out his thin was one of the best runners of the shadowy arms as if they were Sixties and represented his 'Var-controlled by a high power spring sity in the first contest against device. All the tricks Smith has Orford. This wia in the relied on in the past now availed toomiles steeplechase, and though him nothing. During the whole beaten by his fellow Cantab RC. eight rands he scarcely scored. Garnet, through coming to grief a parut, and one lost count of the at one of the hurdles, he finished number of times he was sent to Spatow, in front of both the Oxford ran the floor. Wilde indeed in a box-! nare. The next year Webeter ing mystery. In appearance he Shanghai & N. China-Per HOPSANG achieved a great triumph winning hardly looks the athlete; his frail both the mile and two miles races haild suggests neither strength în a severe rain storm. After nor stamins. And yet he has re- going down from Cambridge, legal markable purching power as be work prevented him continuing in once more revealed in his match training, but he helped to found with Smith, Of the hundred odd the London Athletic club, and in fights Wilde has appeared in he Japan vis Kobe ParTJILATJAP, the early eighties succeeded his has only occa been beaten. That old rival on the track, the Earl of was when he lost to the Seataman, Jersey, as President of the AAA Taney Lee, in the championship, Lord Alverstone took a very but on that occasion he was BO broad view of sport, for though unwell that he ought never to he was a fry enemy of sham have gone into the ring. amateurism be was a generous while Lee has lost the champion. friend of the professional, uphold- ship to Young Symonds, and ing all his rights with fine die it is certain that the latter will crimination. He was pleased to now have to accept a challenge: recognise both classes of sports from Wilde with a very poor pros men, but in his view they could pect of defending it successfully. Got blend, and when the Vanity We have never had a borer to and Pablic schoolboys broke sway equal Wilde. from the Football Association he at once allied himself with the carse of amateurism, and became -the President of the newly formed
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This season of amateur fotball | Amateur Football Association will never be forgotten by this or Strait, On the other hand, during his any other generation of enthusiasts long association with Surrey and amongst the features which Shanghai & China Per KWONG-Ele for Balik Papan cricket he was known as the pro-will stand out is the wonderfal fessionals' friend, and when the scoring feat of Chelses. Already paid members of the team they have established & record, for threatened to go on strike ano League club has ever obtained Hoho Haisboa - For HONGKONG few years
ago, it
Раз hecs many as fifty goals before the who settled the dispute to the New Year. ladeed the champioa satisfaction of all the parties con- club of the year has often finished cerned. He had a very warm in April with a smaller total. Some attachment to cricket, and once of Chelsea's opponents, of course during a Test Match between have not reached the first class England and Australis headjour-standard, and allowance must be ed his cart early in the after-made on the score of that old noon in order to go and see it maxim that players do as well as His knowledge of all games was the opposition let them; but, profound, and in cases concern-still the display of the London ing sport which came before him eleven has been brilliant. The as Joge he always showed a Sunderland mas, Corpi Bachao, particularly lively interest One of the Grenadier Guards, had Swatow. Amor & Foochew-Per HAI recalls an action between billiard contributed very largely to the professionals in which he di big total of goals, but right cussed the "anchor cannon "and through the side the men have! all the technicalities of the game played admirably. For the third, Philippine lalanda-Per TAISANG, 7th with a familiarity, and thorough-time Bachan registered three ness which confounded the less points in the game with Crystal, well-informed counsel engaged Palace, and he is easily the top'
TUESDAY. 8th Feb. in the case:
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McLoughlin, the man who start! Blackpool all losing at home. & India via Calcutta-Per NAM- ed England during his visit in The success of Everton was the 1913, and who defeated both Nor first achieved by a visiting team man Brookes and the late An thony Wilding daring the last touch of irony in the fact that it at Blackpool, and there was a Davis Cap tournament in New
was chiefly brought about by the York, third, and I FL Behr fourth. Johnston made a The latter was first transferred to old Blackpool forward, Clennel. adden leap to fame last season, Blackbara Bovers, and someone but we în England, who are fair- committed an unusual error of ly familiar with the play of all These cracks require a deal of did not want him and in releas judgment in deciding that they convincing that he is better than either McLoughlin or Williams, 1g him to Everton for whom he
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Canadian Firm's Two Fires. performer with the only fault of unsteadinca, But McLoughlin is Kingston, Ont., Dec, 11-The the player who makes the local plast of the Maple Leaf greatest appeal, and his victories Milling Company, whose plent at over Brockes and Wilding as 8. Catharines was burned a everyone agreed at the time jas few days ago, was, destroyed by sky one in thinking him one of fire to-day. The cause of to-day's the truly great players in the his fire is unknown, but eiream tory of the game. The American states surrounding both fires Ted system pertanda to be a classifier to the ssertion that spise were tion of che de kom's play.
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