We have a few good boatmen, -- no good horsemen that I hear of,--I cannot speak for cricketing, -- but as for any great athletic feat performed by a gentleman in these latitudes, society would drop a man who should run round the Common in five minutes.

Some of our amateur fencers, single-stick players, and boxers, we have no reason to be ashamed of.

Boxing is rough play, but not too rough for a hearty young fellow.

Anything is better than this white-blooded degeneration to which we all tend.
I dropped into a gentlemen's sparring exhibition only last evening.
It did my heart good to see that there were a few young and youngish youths left who could take care of their own heads in case of emergency.

It is a fine sight, that of a gentleman resolving himself into the primitive constituents of his humanity.