... IA THLETIC SPORTS: OXFORD AND CAIBRIDGE. To the cricket-match and boat-race which have for many years stimulated the competitive zeal of the Universities, several other contests have lately been added. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the trial of skill in foot-racing, jumping, and other feats of strength and activity, which for want of a better name are called collectively Athletic ...

... To the cricket-match and boat-race which have for many years stimulated the competitive zeal of the Universities, several other contests have lately been added. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the trial of skill in foot-racing, jumping, and other feats of strength and activity, which for want of a better name are called collectively Athletic Sports. The second annual celebration took ...

... No. III.-ATHLETIC SPORTS. I VFNTtURE to use in its comprehensive sense the term Athletic Sports', which for some unexplained reason is generally confined to running arld leaping matclhes; and under this head I shall conclude what I have to say upon the athletic tribe, of whom the rowing man is the typical representa tive. I was standing last Saturday, partially sheltered by a corner of the ...

... No. III. ATHLETIC SPORTS. I VENTURE to use in its comprehensive sense the term Athletic Sports, which for some unexplained reason is generally confined to runling and leaping matches; and under this head I shall conclude what I have to say upon the athletic tribe, of whom the rowing man is the typical representa tive. I was standing last Saturday, partially sheltered by a corner of the ...

... WE are not about to make any prophecy with regard to the approaching university race-except, indeed, one of a modest kind. We anticipate a good race, but we do not say who is to be the winner. Our reticence is, of course, due not to ignorance, but to an unwillingness to damp the spirits of the losers. It is trying enough to the nerves to pass a week of severe training, with the race growing ...

... -OXFORD AND C-AMt2BRIDGE BOA T-RA CE. W v lvunured to pr ophesy t1e othler lay that we should have the pleasure of seeing a good race this year, ad we may congratulate ourselves on the fulfilmnent of our prediction Shice -86o. every race has been hollow and urlinteresting Each might be lesc-;ded in nearly the same terms. Oxford in each took tbe Iead at the beginning, was never afterwards ...

... THE principal race of the First Spring Meeting at Newmarket this year will be memorable above all other meetings of former years; for not only were the stakes of more than usual amount, but the winner was more than usually difficult to guess at. Henceforth it is probable that men will say, They do these things better in France, not only in reference to matters in which we are willing to ...

... ra Or all the vagaries of Englishmen, none puzzles the foreigner more than the study of athletics, and of those, primarily, boxing, football, cricket, and boat-racing. The nigger and the Anglo-Saxon are the only products of humanity that can stand up to a blow in the face; but the most sensitive part of the negro's body is his shin, and this tenderness debars him from appreciating foot-ball. ...

... THE annual recurrence of the University boat-race, and the repeated victories of one colour, have given rise to much discussion upon the various local styles of rowing, and the reason for concluding one or some to be superior to others. We may properlyfollow our first article on this subject by some discussion of style. Years ago, one of the most scientific amateurs that ever graced a boat, ...

... THE COLLEGE BOA T. THOUGH the elementary motive for all amateur rowing is the honour of the thing, yet many different incentives exist in each individual of a college crew. There is the enthusiastic freshman whose first ambition on coming into residence was to earn the title of a rowing-man. He is now in the delight of his first season. How pleased he was when the captain met hinm in quad ...

... S WIMMMING. AN amusing instance of the pharisaism to which we adverted the other day as pervading the English character, was afforded on Saturday last by an article in the Times on the subject of swimming. We have all heard of the Kentucky man who used to boast that he could dive deeper and come up drier than any man in Great Britain. Inspired by a similar patriotic delusion, the writer in the ...

... STAMFORD RACES.-FRIDAY. (Wrzi-ht's Racing Telegrams.) KETTON STAKES (One mile and a half).-Siberia, Arabia, Cclerrirna Araucaria, Ollerton, Auditor, and Brahma are here. SEVENTH WOTHORPE BIENNIAL STAKES (Five furlongs).-Mdlle. Cleopatra, Amazon, The Bugler, Lucifer, Redan, and Chibisa are here. CLIFDEN CuP (Three-quarters of a mile).--Ligbt, Deerfoot, Armadillo, Crytheia, Lady Bohun, Celerrima ...