Exeter Flying Post, Exeter Grand Wrestling and Whitchurch Down advertisement (1811)

EXETER GRAND WRESTLING MATCH. TO be WRESTLED FOR, on MONDAY next, the 29th of July instant, in a Field, adjoining the Black Boy Turnpike, St. Sidwell’s, a PURSE of TEN GUINEAS. To the best Man, FIVE GUINEAS. Second best ditto, TWO GUINEAS. Third best ditto, ONE GUINEA. To every Double Player, 5s. each; and 7s. to the Man who throws the first fall. The play to begin precisely at ten o’clock in the forenoon. N.B. There will be a bye Match, for FIVE GUINEAS, between two Champions of the county, viz. BAKER, of the east, and MANLEY, of the south, which will commence at nine o’clock in the morning. Exeter, July 23d, 1811.