The Sportsman (Melbourne)


The Sportsman was a weekly newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, devoted to sporting news, predominantly racing, with football or cricket second, with columns on handball, shooting, boxing, cycling, wrestling, swimming, yachting and other masculine sports.
The paper was founded by S. V. Winter, founder of the Herald and Weekly Times, and sold off in 1893.
Publishers in 1904 were Sporting Newspapers Proprietary, for George Russell, Howey Street, Melbourne.

Digitization

The National Library of Australia has digitized photographic copies of most issues of The Sportsman from to that may be accessed via Trove.
It is not known whether this last issue digitized is the last printed.