Aquatic Sport on the Virginia Coast.
Wheelers break records in the six-day contest in Madison Square Garden, New York.
Puck's American Phrenological Chart for the Season.
Two female athletes at Virginia City, Nevada, indulge in a wrestling match for the championship.
Great baseball match between the Atlantic and Boxford Clubs of Brooklyn.
"Who wants to pway me a couple of wattling stwong games?"
Athletics
John Walters, of Richmond, Indiana becomes a victim of his love for the national game.
Winter Pastime – A Skating Scene.
The great game recently played between teams representing the colleges of Princeton and Yale, on the former's grounds, Thanksgiving Day.
Perhaps the most successful bicycle tournament ever held in this country was that which opened at Springfield, Mass., on Tuesday, September 18th, 1883, and continued for three days.
Yachting.
Winter sports in the metropolis—a skating scene in Central Park.
Water witches who frolic with Neptune, no matter how cold his embrace.
Cigarette cards, 1880s, 1890s

Lafayette, Ind., Girls Enjoying their Daily Bath in the River—An Inducement for Young Men to Go West.
The Lafayette (Ind.) papers are complaining in right earnest because troops of girls go swimming in conspicuous places in the river near that town. Many people suppose the paragraph is probably merely a device of Lafayette newspapers to draw the attention of clergymen on vacations and other pleasure seekers to the charms of Lafayette as a watering place, but the journalist do not exaggerate the matter at all, as we are reliably informed that any fair day, scores of beautiful maidens enjoy a bath, regardless of the comment of the admiring crowds who watch their movements from the shore.
Illustrated Police News, August 8, 1873.


