NEWMAEKET. 



BY A NON-RAGING MUFF WHO KNOWS 

 NOTHING ABOUT IT. 



I SUPPOSE that I am within the mark if I say that ninety 

 per cent, of my e very-day acquaintance have been to Epsom, 

 and that not five per cent, of them have ever been to New- 

 market. All the workl has an idea that a Newmarket 

 meeting is sheer business, and they are not far wrong. The 

 cause of it is simple enough, and it is because the Heath is 

 the private property of the Jockey Club, and is under the 

 supervision and management of the first racing men in the 

 world, who are the law-makers of one of the most popular 

 of English sports, and the strictest order and regularity are 

 maintained. Just the same as at Lord's, the committee are 

 the authority to the whole world in cricket, and the sport 

 is conducted by those who have been bred and brought up in 

 the game, and who know the value of order and good 

 management. I was to have gone down with the editor of 

 a sporting paper to see the Middle Park Plate run for ; but 

 I missed my train all " along of " the Church Congress. The 

 fact was that a dear old country parson was staying with 

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