The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . cer who hasmost ciphers, or least crosses, after his maybe of any number from four up to ten,but if there are more than ten it is well to separatethe total into two smaller pools, and to decide thefinal by taking the two, or three, best from each ofthese t settle it between them as before. A varycharming possibility is that a team of six, repre-senting one club, can fight another team of sixwhich represents another. In this way matcheshave been brought off between (Ixford and Cam-bridge, and between each of
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . cer who hasmost ciphers, or least crosses, after his maybe of any number from four up to ten,but if there are more than ten it is well to separatethe total into two smaller pools, and to decide thefinal by taking the two, or three, best from each ofthese t settle it between them as before. A varycharming possibility is that a team of six, repre-senting one club, can fight another team of sixwhich represents another. In this way matcheshave been brought off between (Ixford and Cam-bridge, and between each of these and London ;and English fencing has taken a new lease oflife m consequence. The thing may be donein the open air wherever a firm surface can beobtained for foothold ; grass or gravel is the may be done at all hours and in any weatherin a fencing-room. Your mind will be so occupiedthat you will forget everything else until thewinner has been found, and your body will berefreshed with as hard and as graceful a bout ofexercise as you have ever THE VALUE OF BALANCE. CAMILLE PREVOST, ATTACKED BY A LUNGE, HAS MADE THE PARRY OF QUARTE AND AT ONCE DELIVERED HIS RIPOSTE ON HISOPPONENTS BREAST. NOTE THAT PREVOSTS FEET AND LEFT ARM HAVE NOT MOVED FROM THE POSITION ON GUARD. 28 FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALLERS. By B FLETCHER ROBINSON. THE people who are anxious to discover theorigin of football are rarely practical ex-ponents thereof. Few of the leadingplayers could tell you—even if you were so boldas to ask them—whether Homer was conversantwith the game, whether the Romans played theancient Britons, or whether the hustlings overgreat balls which appear to have annovcdEdward II. had any close affinity to the Rugbygame. Nevertheless, it is amusing enough to readof the ancient hostility of the powers that weretowards a pastime which they ordered should be utterly cryed down, since it was nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence wherofprocedeth hurt and consequently
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