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THE a. During The coaching s;sdn !, season 3
.rk. and drive to the Crystal Palace,
Richmond, Greenwich and other pleasant
resorts OF the outskirts OF London, where
the party partake Of lunch: The number
ranges from 800 10 loo. The entrance fee
10 the best of them is about $500, and the
yearly dues $50.
In Climb life the lovers of boxing and the
ssmanly art" are represented by the Peii-
can. the National Sporting Club and the
Ormond: then there is the Kensington
Social Club, where the crooked" tights
finish are to be seen In these clubs, and
such sportis not against the law, as was
sbown nv the decision in the Siavin- Nc
Auliffe trial. The members of the club
where such an event is TO take place make
mn purse. subscribing certain amount
the same as they do here. All the promi-
uent men about town patronize the sport
ing clubs and they are favorite resorts of
= ereat many of the younger nobility,
nearly all of whom are fond of athletic
enrsements. The initiation fee to these
cIubs il $50 and the dues will amount to
shout SIS year. Ordinary boxing may be
enioyed almost every night in the year in
London. Many of the smaller theaters
and amusement halls have such contests
ct every performance.
There are number of amateur boxing
clubs. the two most important being the
Clapton Boxing Club, with $50 members.
and the West London Boxing Club. The
latter is an off-shoot of the West London
Rowing Club, and have always observed
both in England and in this country that
boxing is favorite exercise with men who
love the oar and who aim to keep them
selves in good training. A few years ago
the Marquis of Queensbury presented this
club with three handsome challenge cups
for the encouragement of amateur box
ing: once q year there is a contest for the
Light, middle and heavyweight champion
ships. The London Athletic Club and the
German Gymnastic Society also have box
ing matches during the winter season. An
amateur boxing association was founded
in 1880 for the encouragement and deyel-
opaaent of boxing and holding boxing
matches. There are countless number of
athletic clubs in London. The London
Athletic just mentioned is the most i'm
portant; it has 800 members and takes the
lead in amateur Professionalism. The Ger
man Gymnastic Club founded in 1861, takes
the lead in gymnastic exercises and has
over thousand members, two-thirds OF
whom are English.
The music halls of London are unique
In character, and are patronized in the
evening not only by every lover of sport
but by all classes OF the community. The
Enlightened" element come in evening
dress and occupy the expensive seats. and
there are accommodations for all classes,
from the highest TO the poorest. They are
immense affairs, capable of accommodate
ing / don't know how many thousand peo-
pie. The performance is very much like
the better class of variety shows in the
United States. Some of our best music
hall performers are engaged TO come to
this country by your theatrical managers.
in the London music hall you can get
what you want to eat and drink. There
are dozen or more such places in and
about London. At the Canterbury, the
Metropolitan and the South London the
ballet is a great feature of the perform
ances. The Canterbury has a peculiar
system of ventilation; large portion of
the roof is so arranged as to admit of its
easy and rapid removal and replacement.
One curiosity in the way of music halls is
The Bell, in St. George street, Radcliffe
Highway, the resort of the negro element.
Performances at these halls last from s
o'clock till IL 80, and the prices of admis-
sion vary from IL cents to IS cents, with
special rates for private boxes. There are
20 many of these halls that it is the Gus
tom for performer or a whole company
to be engaged to appear in several of them
at the same time, i. e., after the performer
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in q cab and go to another hall in dis
tant part of the city, and wind up late in
the evening in q third hall, in an entirely
different direction; for ii must be remem-
bered that London is a very large city.
We do not know anything about base
ball in England, but we are just as enthu-
siastic over our national game of cricket as
You are over baseball. Lords" and the
.0val" are the principal cricket grounds of
London, and the games played at Oxford,
Cambridge. Elton and Harrow always at
tract large and fashionable crowd. The
lovers of billiards can see championship
and other important matches at st. James
hall and American tournaments" intro
duced in London only few years ago,
have been played there and at the West
minister aquarium and the Palais Royal.
The charge for billiard playing is IS cents
an hour in the day time and 81 cents by
night; the rate by the game is II cents for
fifty points up.
There is considerable gambling in Lon
don, but OF course il is all done in secret.
Faro, which at one time was the favorite
game, has given place to haccarat. In a
big city like London there is large con-
tingent of men of means who have
plenty of time on their hands
and 1t is quite natural that they
should occasionally desire the excitement
furnished by games of chance. Cock
lighting, an old English sport, is against
the law, but many main takes place in
obscure buildings in the poorer parts of
the city, or on the outskirts of the town.
Such events always draw select party,
and the betting is always high and
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