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i8o The CONNOISSEUR. No. 30.as the champions themfelves to draw the largeft fum from the box. The Amphitheatre was at once a fchool for boxing and gaming. Many thoufands .have depended upon a match $ the odds have often rifen at a black eye; a large* bet has been occafioned by a croft-buttock: and while the houfe has refounded with the lufty bangs of the combatants, it has at the fame time echoed with the cries of Jive to one, fix to one, ten to one.The lofs of this branch of gaming is a public cala*. mity; and I doubt not but the gentlemen at White's, and all others 1 whom it concerns, will ufe their endeavours to have it reftored. The many plates given all over the kingdom have undoubtedly improved our breed of horfes; and if the diverfion of Boxing was to meet with equal encouragement, we ihould certainly have a more llout and hardy race of bruifers. It might perhaps become a faftiion for gentlemen, who were fond of the fport, to keep champions in training, put them in fweats, diet them,. and breed up the human fpecies with the fame care as they do cocks and horfes. In courfe of time this branch of gaming, like all others, would doubtlefs be reduced to a fcience * and Broughton, in imitation of that great genius Hoyle, might oblige the public with a Treatife on the Fill, and Calculations for laying the Odds at any Match of Boxing.T
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London Royal Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Aug 22, 1754
Page 3
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David L.
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