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''The Sporting Times'' (founded 1865, ceased publication 1932) was a weekly British newspaper devoted chiefly to sport, and in particular to horse racing. It was informally known as ''The Pink 'Un'', as it was printed on pink paper. ==History== The paper was founded in 1865〔Andrews, Alexander, ''Chapters in the History of British Journalism'', Chapter XXIII, (page 322 ) online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 2 July 2008〕 by John Corlett, of Charlton Court, East Sutton, Kent, who was both its editor and its proprietor, and by Dr Joseph Henry Shorthouse.〔(CANTERBURY BOER WAR (SOUTH AFRICA) MEMORIAL ) at roll-of-honour.org, accessed 2 July 2008〕 Corlett also wrote a column in the paper called 'Our Note Book' and was associated with it from 1865 to 1913.〔Price, Warren C., ''Literature of Journalism'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) (p. 30 ) online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 2 July 2008〕〔(TURF GOSSIP ) in the Wanganui Herald, Volume XV, Issue 4182, 9 July 1881, page 3, online at paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, accessed 2 July 2008〕 ''The Sporting Times'' was published on a Saturday, and its competitors included ''The Field'', ''The Sportsman'', the ''Sporting Life'', and ''Bell's Life in London''.〔Itzkowitz, David C., 'Fair Enterprise or Extravagant Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in Victorian England', in ''Victorian Studies'' vol. 45, no. 1, Autumn 2002, pp. 121-147〕 According to Alexander Andrews's ''Chapters in the History of British Journalism'', the paper thrived "less upon its racing news than upon its profusion of coarse and scurrilous scraps of tittle-tattle, representing 'society journalism' in its most degraded form".〔 In the 1870s the chess column of ''The Sporting Times'' was written by John Wisker (1846–1884), winner of the 1870 British Chess Championship.〔Gaige, Jeremy, ''Chess Personalia, a Bibliography'' (London, McFarland, 1987, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6, p. 467〕 On 14 September 1889 the magazine ''Vanity Fair'' carried one of its caricatures, printed in colour, of ''The Sporting Times'' editor John Corlett, subtitled ''The Pink 'Un''.〔Vanity Fair magazine dated 14 September 1889〕 In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", first published in the ''Strand Magazine'' in January 1892, Sherlock Holmes deduces that a man is keen on gambling by noticing that he has a copy of the paper, commenting - "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet". In 1922, under the heading "The Scandal of ''Ulysses''", the paper reviewed the complete edition of James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' just published in Paris, its columnist "Aramis" writing trenchantly:〔Aramis, "The Scandal of ''Ulysses''" in ''The Sporting Times'' 34 (1 April 1922), page 4〕 In ''Old Pink 'Un Days'' (1924) the sporting journalist J. B. Booth wrote about his work with the newspaper and its development, with anecdotes of the turf, the theatre, and boxing, and with frank accounts of some of the colourful characters of the worlds of sport and Fleet Street during the early twentieth century.〔(Arts / Antique & Vintage Books / Old Pink Un Days by J B Booth ) at marywardbooks.com, accessed 2 July 2008〕 He followed this up with ''A Pink 'Un Remembers'' (1937)〔Price, Warren C., ''op. cit.'' (p. 179 ) online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 2 July 2008〕 and ''Sporting Times: The Pink 'Un World'' (1938).〔 The paper is mentioned in the novel ''Burmese Days'' by George Orwell: In P.G. Wodehouse's short story "Bingo and the Little Woman" Bertie Wooster reveals that, "bar a weekly wrestle with the ''Pink ’Un'' and an occasional dip into the form-book, I’m not much of a lad for reading". The paper ceased publication in 1932. Rudyard Kipling mentions ''The Sporting Times'' as ''The Pink 'Un'' in his autobiography ''Something of Myself'' (1937).〔(Notes on 'The School Before its Time' ), a chapter of ''Something of Myself'', online at kipling.org.uk, accessed 2 July 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sporting Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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