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Descriptive text from separate pages at the back which cannot be supplied (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
BOXING AT THE REGENT STREET POLYTECHNIC.
Wherever the English language is spoken the "noble art of self.defence" has its votaries. In the eighteenth century, and at the beginning of the nineteenth, prizefighting shared with racing the public favour from royalty downwards, and the successful pugilist was a popular hero. In modern times the ring has fallen from its high estate, but fortunately, it has not carried with it in its fall the manly and useful sport of boxing. Our illustration represents the boxing class at the Polytechnic Institute, Regent Street, London, where the art is systematically and scientifically taught by experienced professionals. Many distinguished devotees of the sport are gathered round the ring, and their eager faces show the interest they take in the contest.