At anti-gambling "spoil-sports," loudly
The "sportsmen" they would spoil are fretting.
Good friends, though you protest so proudly,
The _true_ spoil-sport is--Betting!
Although it suit the baser sort,
What's sport to them is death to Sport!
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[Illustration]
"Piccadilly Sports" is a headline conjuring up pleasant visions
of races, and other jinks unconducive to the peace and comfort of
law-abiding citizens--only authorised race in Piccadilly, the "purblind
race of miserable men." Yet let no irate old gentleman storm the
columns of the _Times_ with a tirade against the police and County
Council on this account. Because there happens to be another Piccadilly
up north. _Hinc (Piccad) illi ludi._ We shall expect to be reading
shortly of "Holborn miners out on strike," "Heroic rescue by the Pall
Mall lifeboat," or "A serious affray with poachers at Paddington."
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