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Here's how it happened that card games are played "according to Hoyle" and boxing is conducted by the "Queensberry rules." by Jerry Klein ail to play canasta according to Hoyle some night and you're liable to be requested to step outside and fight like the Marquis of Queensberry. But maybe you can soothe your partner by telling him all about those oft-quoted authorities on sport, Hoyle and Queens berry. They really did exist, you know. John Sholto Douglas be came the 8th Marquis of Queensberry at the age of 14, in 1858, when his father was killed while hunting rabbits. The first thing the young nobleman did was put in a five-year hitch in the Royal Navy, which may well be where he learned to use his fists so well. At any rate, the young marquis soon became known as the "finest amateur boxer of his time." But boxing had fallen into disrepute as a brutal, bare -knuckled sport in which blood flowed freely. Determined to make box ing "respectable," the Mar quis of Queensberry helped found the Amateur Athletic Club to foster clean com petition. And in the follow ing year, 1867, he drew up the famous Queensberry rules of boxing, which were soon adopted in both Britain and the United States. Boxing began to be al most a genteel sport. In af fairs of honor, it substituted nicely for dueling, abolished some years ' earlier. Even Lord Byron, the gentle poet, took lessons in the manly art of self-defense. The Marquis of Queens berry apparently was a heavyweight. Visiting Cali fornia in the Wild West days, he entered a frontier cafe dressed in the style of English nobility from silk hat to shiny boots. In came "a gigantic cow boy" who "cast a menacing look around him," cursed Queensberry and his pol ished boots, and spat on them. Calmly, the marquis lifted a handkerchief from the cowboy's breast pocket, bent down, wiped his boots, and carefully replaced the handkerchief. The cowpuncher roared and rushed at Queensberry. The short scuffle ended with the Westerner on the floor and the nobleman "leaning nonchalantly on the bar, immaculate as on his first entrance." Edmond Hoyle never ran such risks and lived to be 97. For his first three score years and ten, Hoyle prac ticed law in London. Then he apparently became less interested in the law than in a card game called whist. So absorbed was Hoyle in - the intricacies of this game that in 1742 he published a "Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" that proved so popular there were five edi tions in a year. Soon Hoyle was offering to sell for a guinea the secret of his "artificial mem ory which does- not take your attention off your game." This helped the reader "to play any hand well with moral certainty." Later he published "An Essay Towards Making the Doctrine of Chances Easy to Those Who Understand Vulgar Arithmetick Only" in short, a book on bet ting and gambling odds. Delighted at the demand for such instruction, Hoyle wrote rules for other games: chess, backgammon, piquet, quadrille, and brag. Even after Hoyle's death in 1769, rules for playing various games continued to be printed under his name. A 1796 edition, for example, gave regulations for playing billiards and tennis "ac cording to Hoyle." And dur ing the 19th Century Amer- : H1,l:nl,Ai.e nnnt.pd I f ct ! 1 fJUUliaucia 1 Hoyle as the authority on many games he'd never even heard of. From the time of Hoyle, whist continued to gain in popularity until the intro duction of bridge. Bridge, of course, gave way to canasta which leads us back to fighting according to the Queensberry rules. . . . your No. 1 protection against infection Family Weekly, January 26, 1958
