BISHOP AS BOXER.
Bishop Moorhouse was in a reminiscent vein at a meeting in Manchester recently. Having conducted the business of the local savings bank so well, the Lord Mayor congratulated the Bishop, remarking that he believed he would have made an even greater name as a commercial man than as an ecclesiastic. "That is not the first time I have been told I oupht not to have been a parson," he remarked smilingly "I remember when I was young I had a cousin at Harrow, who was in the sixtlis and was very conceited about his power of boxing. At last he got me to put the gloves on, after I had exhibited a sufficient amount o. reluctance, and when I had finished him off he said, 'It is a pity you .ire a' parson; you would have done "for the ring.'" Tlie Bishop, adds the "Westminster Budget," is also a keen cricketer, end is always to be found at Old Trafford when Lancashire have on attractive county engagement.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11502, 7 February 1903, Page 7
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