Killing for Sport

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. During the past twenty-five years, chiefly owing to the action of the Humanitarian League in giving continuity to what had previously been only an occasional protest, the subject of certain cruel pastimes, called by the name of sports, has attracted a large share of public attention. The position of the League as regards the whole question of sport - i.e., the diversions and amusements of the people - is this, that while heartily approving all such fair and manly recreations as cricket, rowing, football, cycling, the drag-hunt, etc., it would place in an altogether different category what may be called blood-sports - i.e., those amusements which involve the death or torture of sentient beings.