... THE enthusiasm for all athletic sports, and for rowing amongst the number, is doubtless steadily increasing. A greater crowd throngs the course from Putney to 'Mortlake every year to witness the contest between the Universities, and longer columns are filled with criticisms on the per- formances of the rival crews. But much of this zeal, we fear, is not according to knowledge. Many thousand ...

... ETON AND HARROW CRICKET MATCH THE match between the two great public schools was witnessed this year by the usual, or by more than the usual, crowd. It was surprising that London in its present state of semi-depletion could produce so many carriages and so many well-dressed spectators. And the intelligent foreigner, if that respectable individual was anywhere present, doubtless received the ...

... THE GOOD WOOD CUP. MERRY WEATHER having been retained for the prosecution of the Goodwood races, the trials uposf the Cup day were looked forward to with more than usual interest. No one sat upon the bench with the judge, either because there was no bench to sit upon, or because there was no room upon the bench for anybodybesides the judge, or because the judge was consideredto be more likely ...

... SPoRTSMEN are this year preparing for the 12th with the expectation of ?? sport. All the letters from the North justify this confidence. Both in Perthshire and Inverness-shire the grouse is strong, well-grown, and abundant. Here and there, no doubt, a touch of the disease has been discovered, but, on the whole, the birds are in a condition which excites the raptures even of the most ;'canny' ...

... THE CUP-DA Y A T BRIGHTON. To see the beautiful Ely, with a steadying weight of 9 st. io lb. on his back, walk in for the Brighton Cup from competitors so redoubtable as Caller Ou, ?? 9 st. 2 lb. to carry, and Cambuscan with an incubus of 9 st., to say nothing of Union Jack, Redmire, and Sydmonton, was a sight well worth a drenching. And on other conditions it was not easy to be a ...

... It may be true that the cattle plague is unknown in North Germany, but after reading the account which is given in the Saturday Review of the Manner in which German cattle are treated on the voyage from Bremen, or rather Norderhamn, to Thames Haven, it is hard to believe that some amount of disease is not created on the passage. The beasts are huddled together in a frightful way, and are ...

... A ?? controversy is just now raging as to what is fair play in cricket. On Saturday, Sept. 3o, at the Surrey ground, there was a match between Surrey and eighteen gentlemen. In the course of the game Mr. E. M. Grace, whose skill is well known, finding Jupp holding his ground at the wicket in defiance of the most insidious and trying balls, resorted to an expedient which in the hands of a tyro ...

... SINCE Christmas with its tim .e- hallowed customs is comning round again, this peihaps is the time to express the grievances of those who have long and patiently, and with efforts after cheerfulness, endured the tyranny of games. We believe that they forn by no means a small or unimportant class; and if not a majority, a se at least a minority entitled to representation by the laws of moral ...

... THE course of rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge in athletic sports offers a converse picture to the competition of the universities on the. water. Cambridge has for several contests held the foremost place in racing, jumping, &c., while the sister university has been struggling as hard to distinguish herself in this arena as Cambridge to share in the honours of the river. Although in the ...

... TnE last act of the great boating competition of the year is soon to be performed. The Putney week, with its careful laborious exercises, nervous suspense, and eager speculations, is already half over. Cain. bridge glade their debut on the river on Wednesday last. They found the ebb about two hours out when their boat arrived, rowed gently up to the Ship at Mortlake, and then came down on a ...

... THE last row is over-the last spurt or start at an end and since i O .Ar. this morning the two crews in whose contest all England is interested have had nothing to do but think of the past, hope for the future, and bide their fate. The work of the last few days has helped materially to raise Cambridge in public favour, and at the same time to throw light upon the probable issue, to those who ...

... THE OXFORD AND CAMvBRIDGE BOAT RACE. - I. . I- -~ -I - ?? IT was still an hour before dawn when, through the darkness on Barnes Common, the men who were soon to confront the gaze of so many eager and curious eyes took their last training walk and breather. There was a dreary breakfast by candlelight at 5 A.M. Putney as yet showed no signs of life-all was gloomy, cold, quiet. In London, West ...