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Modern Art of Boxing, 1789 [ Practices ]
… may be resolveable into the three first and great requisites, Strength Courage, and Art. It is a contested point with many, which is the most important requisite, Strength or Art: it must be confessed, however, that strength has the superiority. Art will do a great deal, but strength more; for a man with great strength and little art will overcome one with great art and little strength. The strong man will break through his adversary’s guard, he will be too powerful for …
Sports | Art
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… in a boxing club having a fist-fight: the chairman in the middle holds up a gavel, and a woman hits a man over the head with a tankard', Wellcome Collection, 32405i, 1789. Abstract Sporting clubs appeared in the eighteenth century as sports … started their lives in such establishments as The Star and Garter Inn. Although sporting clubs are usually associated with the organisation of sports, they were primarily social clubs. Because they were some of the most popular sports in the eighteenth century, this entry is concerned chiefly with the examples of cricket and horse-racing. Practices > Associational culture Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords …
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… – the crowd that gathered to watch the boxing match – enabled the confusion of social classes, the middling-class mixing with the rank-and-file. Boxing as an art & a science The rules of prizefighting The growing popularity of boxing in the mid-eighteenth century coincided with a global movement to codify the practice and to turn it into a proper sport with its set of rules that could guarantee a fair opposition between the two contesters. Even though bare-knuckled boxing …
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