Star.
London, England, 1819-07-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SWAFFHA M RACES.
At Swaff barn Races on Thursday last, the Town Plate and
County Members' Plate of £Sb each, were won by the Duke
of Grafton's filly.
On Friday the Ladies' Handicap Plate was won by Mr. Jones's
December filly, and the County Gentlemen's Plate of se:lo,mA
won by Major Wilson's Schidam.

IRVINE RACES, THURSDAY, JULY 22.
(Run for over Bosside Course.)
A Gold Cup of 100 Guineas value, and 10 Guineas in specie.
Lord Eglinton's g. Monreith
Mr. J. G. Skene's br. h. Lucifer
Lord Eglinton's Sans Culotte

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A good race.
DUBLIN, JULY 23.

Tuesday there was in the Park one of the handsomest laces
we have seen for some time • the horses were Mr. Wllaot's Lord
Byron, Major Campbell's Idiza Mr. MlGuire's Mary Anne, and
Mr. Bellingham's beautiful Arabian, Mary MlGitillicoddy. The
race was for one hundred pounds, each Gentleman subscribed
£25. The winner to give one-half to ihe poor widow of a wine
merchant with eleven children. The horses were rode by tbeir
respective owners, and at starting bets were considerably in fa.:
your of Mr. Bellingham's Arabian; but after a most interesting
race, during which there was scarcely a yard distance between
the four horses, Mr. BPGuire came in first by half a head- After
the race, Mrs. Billingham entertained at 'Woodville, a numerous
party; a sumptuous dinner was served up under marquees.
There was a number of elegant equipages on the ground (lu—
ring the race. Mrs. Bellingham's was by far the handsomest.
She sported four beautiful blood horses, out-riders, &c. akc. A
number df young Ladies appeared on horseback ; altogether it was
a gay scene, and such'as we could wish to see more frequently.

SINGLE-STICK AND WRESTLING.

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An excellent match of Single-stick Playing and Wrestling
(Hampshire gamesters against Wiltshire) took place at Winters-
low Hut on Wednesday se'noight, in pursuance of advertisement.
Five men of the county of Hants, named Smith, Neal,Wheeler,
Carter, and Bantem, proved to be good single-stick players, and
each of them broke the head of his opponent in a most scientific
and manly style. Their opponents were from Great Beilwin, In
.Wilts. Smith, the Hampshire player, was a man of small suture,
and obtained unlimited applause for breaking two heads (of the
Bedwin party) and preserving his own unbrcken. The single-
stick prize (rive guineas) was of course awarded to the Hamp-
shire men. The contest was very hard for the wrestling prize
of five guineas : it lay principally between Wiltshire men, and
was ultimately awarded to them. A man named Morris Pope,
from Great Bedwin, was turned handsomely by a Devonshire
man named Sampson, but it was decided not to be a fall ; and
Sampson was afterwards thrown by Dogherty, a man of the
Bedwin party. The diversions of the day were conducted, by
the Gentlemen who undertook their management, in a manner
that gave the utmost satisfaction.

The City donator threatens to exhibit himself
round the Royal Exchange without his inexpressible:,
if Omnium is not done at 10 per cent. premium
during the present account, 'Now, as he is well
own'to be a man who is tremblingly-alive to every
- elirikof delicacy, and not long since threatened to di-
st himselfof some other necessary article of dress if
It was not done at 5 per cent. premium, it is but fair to
presume that he is certain of being again right in his
prognostication ! However, as, in the mutability of
human:affairs, matters may take a contrary turn, a
wag ventures to suggest to him, that it might be
prudent to doff his imitation of Yorick, and supply
himself with a culotte•a-la-LinGuAm, that will fit
tight at the knees! It would be an interesting fa-
mily picture, to see the great man in this costume,
with his " pares nubile fratruin" for supporters, as-
sisted from the Exchange to St. Swithin's-lane. Ten
per cent. discount will produce the picture!
IRISH DECENCT.—A number of persons having
been recently in the daily habit of bathing in the
Grand Canal, Dublin, to the great offence of all the
decent people of the neighbourhood, a complaint was
made on the subject to Alderman ARCHER, who dis-
creetly ordered, that, to prevent in future the eyes of
the innocent and modest from being insulted hy such
exhibitions of nudity, the Police Officers should re-
pair to the Canal and—take away the clothes {y( the
bathers ! Accordingly on Sunday se'nnight the Offi-
cers went to the Canal and brought away the clothes
of a "great number" of persons then bathing, who
were thus obliged to trot home naked ! !