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Royal Cornwall Gazette – Friday 08 July 1887 Rules for World Championship between Jack Carkeek and John Pearce. Rule 1. — Each contestant shall wear knee-breeches, or trunks, and shall wrestle with bare feet or socks. Each wrestler shall wear a jacket, which shall be made of canvas, very loose and very strong at the […]
CORNWALL AND DEVON WRESTLING SOCIETY. THE CHAMPIONSHIP. The annual meeting of this society commenced at Hackney Wick, on Good Friday. There were fully three thousand persons present, the visitors taking much interest in the wrestling, which was carried out strictly in the Cornwall and Devon style, the “fair back fall.” Although open to all counties, […]
DEVON AND CORNWALL WRESTLING MATCHES. The Devon and Cornwall Wrestling Society resumed their matches on Tuesday afternoon. The display of science was exceedingly good; and the ground selected, which is at the Brecknock Arms Tavern, Camden-town, was in fair condition. The attendance was numerous and respectable. The principal play was as follows: G. Partridge, of […]
WRESTLING. To Mr. ABRAHAM CANN, St. Thomas’s, Exeter. SIR, Although you did not answer mine of Sept. 20th, nor accept the proposals with respect to time, place, and amount of stake——I see yours of the 10th inst., in the Devon Freeholder, dated Dec. 2, wherein you now assert your readiness to try the championship of […]