Show ENGLISH i aiu LI I 1 about one of the Enel ala are devoted to sport it may give some idea of the place of sport in english life to the sedentary american to say that is difficult to find an englishman between 18 and 65 in fair health and not supported by alie rates who is not a performer at some kind of sport or interested in some phase of it of the reviews and magazines mag of a nonreligious character printed in england says the forum one in six is largely devoted to borne form of out of door sport or occupation between 1880 and 1885 according to a private index kept in the british museum there were books published on the one subject of sport or athletics between 1883 and 1890 and although the figures for the last five years are not a hand the number of books on the same subjects promises to be even larger almost forty books on golf alone appearing during the last five years nor does this list include books on topics germain to the subject such as books dealing with voyages geography history biography and trade of whish there were published in london in 1893 and probably more than a thousand during the lust year in a word john bull loves the fresh air he is a sportsman an athlete a soldier a sailor a traveler a colonist rather than a student and all the figures bear me out in making the statement during those horrible days in the crimea these sport loving young barbarians were all at play when they were not fighting racing their ponies getting up cricket matches and off shooting such game as there was one family the have hunted the brocklesby pack of hounds for more than years |