The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-05 00:00:00

SPORTING

BOBERTO .1,1 RACES, .
The first race was for a Sweepstakes .
etch, for horses not thorough bred, bona fide the jeesserty
of Subscribers that had been hunted with the lilemblepoit
hounds to carry 12st. eseb.—Eleven liorsei staetsit foe this
race, and it was well contested between Mr. Ha m's eh:
h. ()taped, and Captain Sherirs br. pt. Contract; the Weller
led in the first beat, the latter came in first the two subse-
quent heats.
The next race was for a Cup, the gift of tI4 Montle:sten of
the Ilambledon Hunt, to be run for by horses Rl* thorough
bred, the property of Farmers residing within the limits of
the ilunt—for which seven horses started.
NECK it NOTOINO.—A steeple ebuse for ibo soveielgni
aside took place on Saturday between Captain Ileetham and
J. S. Thissleton, Esq. ; the start took place within two milei
of Oakingliam, on part of Windsor Forest, to go to a spot on!
Alaidenhead Thicket, over thick enclosed ground. Captain
Reetham was mounted do that celebrated hunter Thorn, and
Mr. Thissleton rode his gray mare, one of the best of the
Farley Hunt. The distance is about nine miles, in a straight
direction, and the race was a very severe one. The compe.:
titers gallopped together, taking across the country with
many harardeus leaps until they reached Shotteabrook
church, where they separated, each making the best of his
way into the Bath road. Captain Beethant got into the road
at Knowle Hill. and his opponent • mile er Maiden-
head, and they were a mile together from home on the high
road. All depended now on speed, and Thorn has it. Tue
Captain won the'race by about 200 yards.

WILLIAM MACNAMARA,
/HZ CZLZIRATSD MISR PEDESTRIAN.

(PROM Tilt IRISH BELPAST PAPtIII
A very singular, and we consider a very unpreeedenterl
pedestrian effort was mast triumphantly performed by
one of our countrymen on Tuesday last, within a quarter
of a mile of this town. His name is William Macoaana-
ra —he is a light, active, well-proportioned man—accus-
tomed to exertions of this kind—and invariably snecessz
ful in the performance of his great pedestrian duties.
Russell, the Eaglishm an, who walked, within the last 2
months, 96 miles in 24 hoer!, roused the spirit and ex-
cited the emulation of all our countrymen—it was the
first experiment tried in a regular methodical way, in
Ireland. Macnarnara took fire at the example, and de-
termined, if possible, to throw Russell into the shade;
he proposed walking (or running, as be pleased,) the
same number of miles in the same time as Russell,
with the incumbrance of a wheelbarrow—his hands of
course, bound tap to a particular position ; his hien&
expostulated, but to to purpose, and on Tuesday
last, without fee or reward, but that reward *deb
an Irishman feels in the consciousness of maintaining.
the fame of his country, Nlarnatuara started at twelve
o'clock, and walked 96 miles in 23 hours and 10 miuutee,
carrying one wheelbarrow for 91 iriles, and two wheel.
barrows for the last two miles. Russell walked the
same number of miles in 23 hours and 30 minutes. Mac-
nsmara walked and trotted, as he pleased. As a walker.
Russell appears to us to possess a holder and more vigor-
ous mode of movement, but we believe, without any un-
just partiality, Macnaniara would go over the tame space
of ground in a considerably shorter time than Russell,
—Mammas& was greatly received and cheered by his
humbler countrymen ; perhaps the better classes of our
commut,:ay saw there was no necessity for patronizing
an Irishman— he could walk or stand alone—but Rus-
sell, being en Englishman and a stranger too, required
the parental (protection of our Sovereign and Magis-
trates, and them followers, and perhaps this was en-
tirely as it should be. Russell got 42/. for his great
effort, and we were heartily clad of it ; but is Macna-
mars, who is, at least, nut his interior, to receive less?

BOXERS.
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SPRING AND NRATR.—The whole of the stakes, two Mo-
dred sovereigns aside, will he made good this day, Tbo
whole of the money is ready on both sides, and betting IS
!VCR.

Carter wishes to fight James Ward on the same day that
Spring and Neste fight, and at the same place.
CRAWLEY AND ACTON.—To-morrow, within 9.t• miles
of Loudon, the above pugilists will enter the ring together.

TIM FaNev....Yarmouth and its neighbourhood anti-
cip stud a rich treat on Monday afternoon, in a pugilistic
contest between two men not wholly unknown to the
prize ring. Their names were Rushmer and Long, the
former not very scientific, but a declared professor of
the Cornish hog, and cross bottocking system, an.i the
latter a soldier on the staff of the East Norfolk Regi-
ment, who promised his hackers "he would serve it nett
to the ugly one in double ?nick tune." The scene of
action was an ansphitheatrical sand pit, in Bradwell,
round the sloping sides of which the spectators, who
were computed at 6000, arranged themselves to contem-
plate the fan. Two to one were betted by the knowing
ones in favour of the superior strength of Rushmer.
After some preliminaries the men peeled, and sct•to,
with a determination to make smashing work of it. In
the first round Long hit short at the cheese trap of ilia
opponent, but planted a smart hit upon his bread bys':ct
which told round the ring ; Rushmer returned by a
light right-handed b'uw, and then rushing forwari in
rather an outre way, cross buttocked and fibbel his man
with great violence. Long was thrown heavily and
much bruised, and Rnslimer falling on him mancenerea
his elbow into the other's body. Twenty-three rounds
followed, much after the same manner, and cries of
shame! s'.ame ! resounded from all parts of the ring.
Rushmer, without venturing a blow, invariably closed
with and threw his opponent, and was once or t .vice ob-
served, in the great indignation of the throng, to set his
digits a gonging. At the end of twenty minutes Lowe
was incapable of being brought to the scratch, and was
in consequence carried off nearly insensible, after making
a pliant though unavailing resistance to the Herculean
strength and unfair fighting of his antagonist. The
stakes were ten guineas aside. Long's second was an
amateur, and Rtistimer's an old campaigner of 60 years
standing.
SPORTINO EXTRAORDINART.—A few days since, the
attention of the inhabitants of Itchenor, %las attracted
by the appearance of a stag on the opposite shore of the
ricer, which after taking a survey of this arm of the sea,
ithout ceremony took soil, and swain across, a distance
of about six hundred yards; he then. majestically crossed
the Park, and made his lair is an adjoining covert. The
keen sportsmen of the united parishes in the neighbour-
hood, had speedy information of this unexpected visitant,
and the harriers were collected with speed, and laid on.his
slot. The animal was soon roused, and broke cover in
the most gallant style, and during a chace of two hours,
topping every fence in his way, chewed capital sport,
when being pressed by his staunch pursuers, he once
mare attempted to cross the river, at West Wittering,
but the tide being ebbed, lie got embayed in the mod,
from which lie was extricated unhurt; ar.d is now in
safe possession, no tidings having been yet received of his
real owner.

lames, APRIL 29.—1 n the early pin of last week,
Mr. Winton, of Itingmer, near this town, sent as a pre-
sent to :tilt son, at liurwash, a duck and a drake, winch
were properly secured in a hamper, and dispatched by
a regular conveyance to Burwash, a dicta ice of 14
miles; but to Mr. Winton's utter astonishment, on vi.
siting his poultry yard, last Friday morning, he beheld
the identical drake he had presented to his san as above,
waddling about with his old companions, as he had been
wont to do! . The above is noticed od the authority of
Miss Winton,

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