BAILY'S MAGAZINE OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES. VOLUME THE EIGHTH. LONDON: A. H. BAILY & CO., CORNHILL. 1864. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII. LORD POLTIMORE: a Biography, 1. University Competition in General and Boating in Particular, 6. Paul Pendril, 17, 123, 188, 228, 275. The Sires of the Day, 27, 80, 195. Woodcock Shooting in Wales, 33. Cricket, 42, 94, 171, 205, 252, 296. 'Our Van,' 45, 97, 155, 208, 262, 317, 368. Mr. Richard Ten Broeck: a Biography, 55. A Few Words on Sporting Literature and Journalism, 58. Hunters' Stakes; their Use and Abuse, 68. The Early Days of an M. F. H., 71, 134, 175, 283, 357. Trout Fishing on Western Waters, 90. Mr. Francis Popham: a Biography, 109. The National Sport and the National Taste, 112. The Military Steeple-Chases near Versailles, 121. Admiral Rous and the Irish Turf, 165. BAILY'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES. LORD POLTIMORE. THERE are few positions more fraught with peril to youth than that of being possessed of an ample inheritance, with uncontrolled action and a taste for the amusements of the field; and it is rare to find one dowered with these advantages, as they may be, steering his course clear amidst the quicksands that surround him in the pursuit of those pastimes of which, in his case, fashion is not the sole instigator. The love of hunting is strongly inherent to some natures, and when to witness and direct the 'canum alacritas in venando' is the object of desire, and that the necessary accompaniment of hard riding is held to be of secondary, and not primary value, such true sportsman is certain to obtain a sterling notoriety in the more scientific department of the hunting field. Should hunting be assumed as a fashion, a tailor and a horse-dealer are the fitting masters of the ceremonies, and the great grass grounds of the midland shires the proper arena of exhibition. Three hundred men in scarlet are not three hundred sportsmen. Ten per cent.-a large proportion-may be first flight men; not two per cent. would be capable of taking the management of hounds, and one per cent. would be an extravagant allowance for those who themselves could handle hounds, and kill their fox upon a half scent. We have now to deal with one, whose portrait is on the other side of the page, that at an early day of his career has accomplished the task of having formed and bred a pack of fox-hounds of distinguished ability, by his own judgment, and of having carried out his standard of taste and requirement with a precision that has given a unity of character and shape to his hounds which rarely belongs to any, save an establishment of long and hereditary standing. The family of Bamfylde is one of ancient lineage in the county of Devon. They became possessed of Poltimore in the twentysixth year of the reign of Edward I., A.D. 1298; and for which large estate, at that time, John Bamfylde paid the sum of two hundred pounds. The twelfth in lineal descent was created a Baronet VOL. VIII.-No. 50. B |