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Sparring entertainment at Lyceum Hall, Wednesday evening, January 21. The following well known men will participate: J. Shannon and J. Malone, Tug Collins, and Saxey Joyce; J. Sweeney, and W. Ramsey; Prof. Bagley, and J. Daley; R. Lord, and J. Murphy; J. Cunningham, and J. Sullivan; J. Harlin and J. Green; J. Doherty, and W. Neale; T. Kneeland, and T. Sullivan. Mr. Jake Kilrain will act as master of ceremonies. Tickets, 50 cts., for sale at Leavitt and Pierce...
Sparring entertainment at Lyceum Hall, Wednesday evening, January 21. The following well known men will participate: J. Shannon and J. Malone, Tug Collins, and Saxey Joyce; J. Sweeney, and W. Ramsey; Prof. Bagley, and J. Daley; R. Lord, and J. Murphy; J. Cunningham, and J. Sullivan; J. Harlin and J. Green; J. Doherty, and W. Nelle; T. Kneeland, and T. Sullivan. Mr. Jake Kilrain will act as master of ceremonies. Tickets, 50 cts., for sale at Leavitt and Pierce...
...editing the works of Gray-a task that had never before been thoroughly undertaken. The poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were found only by extended search through the British Museum, Pembroke and Peterhouse Colleges at Cambridge, the Dicey library at South Kensington, Lord Howden's autograph collection, and various private libraries. At Pembroke College he found three folio volumes of manuscript, unexamined since 1814, containing scribbling of every one of Gray's poems. Some of these were new, among them some Latin poems and a translation in verse from Propertius. This latter...
...efforts of one Thomas Lord, who was promised the support of Lord Winchilsea, Col. Lennox, afterward Duke of Richmond, and others, if he would start a ground at Marylebone in secession to the ground in the White Conduit Fields, then probably being built over. Lord was a descendant of a Roman Catholic family of Yorkshire farmers who had suffered in the confiscations of 1745. About 1782 he was a wine merchant and a cricketer of great zeal and some ability. Lord, who appears to have had energy, closed with the offer, and established a ground in what is now Dorset...
...hardly known at the Universities, was at best pursued by some exuberent freshmen, Etonians mostly, who had not yet outgrown their salad days. Now our "young barbarians" of Oxford and Cambridge kick away at each other's shins as keenly as they hit each other's bowling about the Lord's, or tug away at each other year by year from Putney to Mortlake. The county elevens who compete for the challenge cup of the Football Association are chosen with almost as much care as for cricket ; nay, it is whispered that professional players for the former are almost...