Bells Life in London and Sporting Chronicle [Town Edition] (1857)

THE COMMITTEE of the CORNWALL and DEVONSHIRE WRESTLING SOCIETY beg to announce that they will celebrate their usual ANNUAL SPORT in the Pleasure Garden attached to Mr Baum’s, the White Lion, Victoria Park Station, Hackney Wick, on Whit- Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, when a number of handsome money prizes will be given to be wrestled for by men of three classes, viz, Men of any Weight, and Men under-list, and for Amateurs that have not wrestled for a prize. The prizes to be wrestled for:— Men of any Weight, first £ 2 10s, second £ 1 10s, third 5s; and list, £ 2 10s, £ 1 10s, and 5s; for Amateurs, £ 1, and 10s. The play to be purely in the Cornish style, without shoes, in jackets and drawers. The amateurs to wrestle for their prizes on Wednesday. Weighing to commence at 11 o’clock, and wrestling precisely at 12, and over at 8; when the amateurs will attend with their splendid brass band, and a variety of entertainments will take place, consisting of music, dancing, & c, & c. The ground is the largest in London, and will hold ten thousand persons, and will be illuminated upon this occasion; and the whole will conclude with a grand display of fireworks each evening. It is particularly requested that the wrestlers will be on the ground by 11 o’clock each day. The entries to be made to Mr Simpson, Crown Tavern, Winchester- street, Caledonian road, or at Mr Baum’s.— The trains run on the London and Blackwall, and North London, Fenchurch Street, every quarter of an hour, to the wrestling ground. Hackney Wick.