Owen Seaman,
Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3823…
(19th and 20th century)
“ THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART. ["The Cologne Gazette" tells us that we are lacking in understanding of the high seriousness of the war; that we use sporting expressions about it. "The Times," referring to this criticism, points out that, though we do not pretend, like the Germans, to make a religion of war, our sporting instinct at least enables us to recognise that to draw the sword on women and children is "not cricket."] ”
