Show ENGLISH isac iS rc il i l I 1 about bouc sixth ot the clellah ails ara limited to aport it may give some idea of alic place of sport in english life to alic sedentary american to say that is difficult to find an englishman between IS and 05 in fair health and not by alie rates who is not a performer at borne kind of sport or interested in some phase of it of the reviews and magazines of a nonreligious character printed in england says the forum one in aix is largely devoted to some form of out of door sport or occupation between and 1885 according to a private index kept in the british museum were sag books published on the one subject of sport or athletics between and 1890 and although alie figures for the last five years are not at 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 docs this list include books on topics germain to the subject such as books dealing with voyages geography history biography and trade of which there were published in london in 1893 and probably more than a thousand during the last 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 alie 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 |