New Zealand “Referee”: “In a private letter to his brother in Dunedin, Stephen son, the champion sculler of New Zealand, states that arrangements have been com pleted by his backeis and trainer for a match against McLean, who recently defeated Matterson.” ' • An American youth named Frank Bell, aged eighteen, recently succeeded in breaking the bicycle record for a quarter of a mile, covering the distance in 32sec. The . beet previous performance was 35Jsec. Gn the sth July, G. Bubear will row J. Kerr, late champion amateur sculler of Victoria, on the Lower Yarra, three miles, for £SO a-side. An American paper says:—“lf these Australian bruisers do not quit coming over Here and knocking out our home-made " plug-uglies, we shall have to place a tariff on foreign prize-fighters. American black- > guardism must be protected against the pauper free-trade blackguards of effete monarchies.”
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 482, 21 June 1890, Page 6
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