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“I run, I wrestle, I can well throw the barre” – Barclay To the editor of the Sporting Magazine. SIR, THE men of Devon have ever been renowned for their great skill in the manly sport of wrestling. They are, in general, particularly well formed for the play, broad in the shoulder, strong in the […]
(From Tasker’s Miscellanies, lately published.) Pale or wrestling was first introduced into the Olympic stadium in the eighteenth Olympiad: and Eurybatus, a Spartan, was the first who received the wrestlers crown; though, according to Plutarch, Theseus was the first who reduced this exercise into a science. One very remarkable difference between the ancient and modern […]