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...days when he was young, when there was not a man living could throw him in the ring. When these rural sports were of a character in which the parson and squire could take part, they flourished. The tangible honor to be won rarely consisted of more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...
LOST- Between the yard and Felton, opposite Memorial, a blue stone seal ring. Finder please return to 32 Matthews, C. H. Hawood...
...North of England is the best of all. It has had amongst its devotees men of tethers and of high cultivation. It has been said of a certain college, that it turned out better wrestlers than parsons. Certainly some of them made a greater figure in the ring, and a more successful one. than in the pulpit. At the end of last century and even at the beginning of the present one, it was thought no disgrace to "the cloth" to contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete...
Lost - Between the yard and Felton, opposite Memorial, a blue stone seal ring. Finder please return to 32 Matthews, C. H. Hawood...
LOST.-In the gymnasium, a gold ring, a liberal reward will be paid for the return of the same to 12 Matthews, as the ring is of much more value to the owner than it can be to any one else...