SPORTING NEWS.
[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >—< THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. HANLAN'S CHALLENGE TO BEACH. ENGLISH TEAM OF CRICKETERS FOR THE COLONY. (Received September 13, 4.30 p.m.) Sydney, September 13. Hanlan has challenged Beach to row within seven months for the championship of the world. (Received September 15, 0.55 a.m.) London, September 13. The team of professional cricketers to visit Australia will leave England by the steamship Orient, on the 19th inst. The following are the names of the team: —Shaw, Shrewsbury,. Barnes, Flowers, Scotton, Attwell, Briggs, Held, Ulyett, Bates, Hunter, Peel, and Lilly white.
[special to press association.]
London, September 8. The Australian cricketers have each, netted nearly £7OO as a result of their cricketing tour. The London season having closed and most of the fashionable members of society being out of town, the banquet which was intended to have been given to them has been abandoned, and a farewell champagne dinner will be given instead at the Oval on Saturday next.
September 9. A Canadian offers Beach £2OO as expenses if he will row Hanlan at Montreal for £IOOO a-side.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2568, 15 September 1884, Page 2
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184SPORTING NEWS. Kumara Times, Issue 2568, 15 September 1884, Page 2
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