PAPERSPAST

PHYSICAL CULTURE AND ATHLETIC NOTES.

Canon Joseph McCormick, Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, who died last week at the age of 80, was in hie youth a great athlete. He rowe<l

in the Cambridge boat in 1856, captained the 'Varsity cricket eleven, gainqd distinction as a boxer, and became famous as an Alpine climber.

"There's no reason," said Miss Frances Weste, the ju-jitsu girl, to a "Standard" representative, "why women should not go in for boxing as well as men. When I am teaching boxing I do not hit on the body ati all. I always go for the face."

In reply to an inquirer "John Bull" says, "We don't know anything about the —— system, but the best thing for increasing the height is to try to kiss a girl taller than yourself three times a day after meals.

The Scottish ten-mile championship again went to the holder, that fine runner, G. C. L. Wallach, at Edinburgh, on April 4th, his time being 52min. 48 3-5 sec. Wallach won easily by fully half a mile.

A feast of good lifting was served at S. H. Croft's School of P.C. on :Aprijl lltih, in the .aft(ernooin and evening. J. W. Schofield, of Hebden Bridge, establishes! a list. British record by lifting 192|1b. in the right band clean and press style. Alfred Danks established a 9st. 71b. British record by lifting 109£lb. in the right hand Continental push style. W. J. Biggs, of London, succeeded in breaking his own recent 9st. British record by lifting 12I|lb. in the right hand clean and jerk style. The left hand record of 117$lb. is also held by him.

"White men, if they desire to be healthy, must live as the Indians do," said Dr Charles A. Eastman, a full-blocked Sioux Indian, and graduate of Boston University. "Through cold winter 'and hot summer," he said, "we live in the open air. "We are used to rain, sun, and storm. My mother swam across the Mississippi with my sister strapped on her back when she was seventy-two years old. I wonder if any of the white women could jdo that. You never see an Indian with a large stomach. We do not allow eurgery '■

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