Exeter Flying Post, Champion Flower thrown at King’s Nympton by Beal (1812)

WRESTLING.—The champion Flower, who carried off the best prize on the first day of the Exeter Wrestling, was thrown at King’s Nympton on Thursday last, by Robert Beal, of George Nympton. He had been in the habit of carrying off the prize from the above place for several years past, there never being any players who were a match for him in strength and agility, till his challenge was accepted by the above-named Robert Beal.