Gymnastics, An Essential Branch of National Education, Both Public And ...
Gymnastics, An Essential Branch of National Education, Both Public And ...
James Chiosso
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The forenamed. author, therefore, says bevealingly, in his Survey of London: — " Why should I speak of the ancient exercises of the long- bow by the citizens of this city, now almost clean left off and forsaken ? I over-pass it, for by the means of closing in of common grounds, our archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling alleys and ordinary dicing houses near home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games." And in another place : — " Oh, what a w...onderful change is this ! our wrestlings at arms is turned to wallowing in coarsest sensuality, our courage to cowardice, our running to royot, our bows into bowls, and our dartes into dishes." These gymnastic festivals, if we may say so, extended to all parts of the country, and embraced every trade and occupation. "It had been the custom," says a Chester antiquary, " time out of mind, for the shoemakers, yearly, on the Shrove Tuesday, to deliver to the drapers, in the presence of the Mayor of Chester, at the cross of the Rodekee, one ball of leather, called a foot-baQ to play at from there to Common hall of the said city " The above game of the quintain was practised even at a pole stuck in the Thames.
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