... year's end to year's end. As to 'athletic exercises, no one ever seems to dream of such a thing. I The great games of cricket, football, rowing hunting archery, | shooting, &c., which dividewith business the life ofa.healthy Euro pcan, ave .eithier'wholly unknown ...

... keelpins, tronks, coits, pitching-bars, hurling, wrestling, leaping, running, fencing, mustring, swimming, wasters, foiles, foot-ball, balown; quintaus, &c., and many such, which are the com- mon recreations of the country folk. Here be a goodly choice, ...

... spread over the loop; and it resembles hockey and football, inasmuch as there is a contest between the two sides for the possession of the ball. The ball, however, is much smaller than the ordinary football, and as neither hand nor foot must touch it, every- ...

... latter pair by one hole; the second was halved, . FOOTBALL. ENGLAND I. SCOTLAND. iroma oalr ow n Ecel~rter.i No better proof can be adduced of the extensive popularity enjoyed by the game of football in the vicinity of London, and indeed in all the southern ...

... STAKsES of 3 Sove. each, with E0 added, for hunters; list each; thoroughbreds 71b extra; winners extra. Nearly two miles. Football, st 71b, . . . Mr Spafforth 1 Chorister 1l3st 71b, .. Ir BeVlk 2 Willeombsy, list Tlb .. . Mr G. S. Thomson 3 Great Comberton ...

... Heron. Dean, on~IaP,-W. i. Wilson, 1611t; 2d, O Uloleapw T:. loe 5ft lin 100 ydsrace- 0Ieron KTimisceonds. coking the foot~ball-i. ChniiorlIn 172 ?? 10 yar8 rnoo-lst, J. Xead- matie betwee~nJ.Bi llnton anid J Cook. TIme 14sec. Fiat'reeb,0Wmilc-b, Ha-Irm; ...

... pairs a-side. At the close the ganme stood thus:- Iv Ar Club, 260 shots; Cumnoeli, 2-1i; majority for Ayr, 19 shots. - - It FOOT-BALL. d QusEN'S P.AxK agoains AiRDIcnE.-A match-four- e teen a side-was played between these clubs on the ir recreation grounds ...

... * the second prize was gained by an amateur; and the third fell to AU Sneddefi, contractor, Birsle IKnowe. QUEoN'S FAsE FOOTBALL CLUB V. HAMILTON OsoFA.Stubr.-Thls mattoh (14 of tho former against 18 of the latter) w as played in the Queen's Park on ...

... Tuesday, Nov. 15, at Tawthora ?? at 11.16, Thursday, ,, 17, at Aushenmeade ?? at 16,15. Friday, ?? 15, ?? Pord, ?? at 11. FOOTBALL. MATcE.-EX6LAXD V, SCOTLAND.- At al meeting of the' captains of English foot- , bail clqba, heldL yosterday in ,the ,Spoitmasm ...

... cemseto toebhlt- Did yeo o'er hear of Ooo who confessed it a fault? FOOTBALL. ENGLAND V,. SCOTLAND. - Thin international match, which may safely be described as the great event of the football season inthe South, took place at Kennifgton Oval, London, under ...

... Flibustier, and Adonis, after a very successful autumn career ia e this country, left Newmarket on Saturday for 't Prussia . :FOOTBALL. ?? AcADEgiHCALS V. WEoT OF 8CoTLAND,-TbThs match wpa played oh Saturday at Partlek. The weather was very non- varourable ...

... lotmenne -table, which~ ineluden ttj fl.0.1ijOejertleld- or q~c.; adUL Lymingtvi Ci9, A Souvenance may get a place. a ; . FOOTBALL. 3 GnresGow ACADMWACLS ?? , utlTN.S' This match camrne ot on Saturday axt orariabk. ?? friends of the competing sides assembled ...