has had a rare innings this winter, thanks chiefly to strong Committees. The fortnightly yuin display was last week diversified with a two-day athletic meeting which in everything, but "times and records" was ideally successful. Youthful Tientsin tends to fat virtue and won't come forth to train, hence the awful times of our quarter (Im. 10s.) half (2m. 28s.), ete, etc. Itis a great pity, for the training ground could be made a capital social rendezvous, and the exercise would do our swains infinite good. The foreign boys are, if possible, in worse athletic state than their fathers, and in comparison to their English cousins are in a deplorable condition. This is not due to lack of grit yo much as lack of example, for, curiously enough, Mr. Lanning's statement as to the thow and sinew of China-bred lads is partly borne out by our experience. Our best adult by far and our best boy by far are coast born and bred; they are quite exemplars in style and in their devotion to training, Dut unhappily they are exceptions. All the sailors in port entered keenly into the fun and the honours were well divided. O'Maley ofthe U.SS. Monocacy was certainly the best all-round man on the ground but his name, like his jumping, bewrayeth his nationality. The Linnets were well to the fore; both France and Japan put forward capital men, A Jap won the hurdles in grand style to the intense delight of his messmates. The unsophisticated simplicity of the Japanese in changing their "clo" coram poptdo filled a mixed assembly with very mixed feelings, but ioni sylt, etc.
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