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pp. 26 “By Tre, Pol & Pen, ye may know Cornishmen,” says the old ballad and also by his wrestling jacket is the Cornish wrestler known. And wherever “Cousin Jack” has set foot, there he has taken with him his love of a wrestle. From time beyond all memory, even tradition, the Cornishman has the […]
Chapter XIII Wrestling Wrestling had become one of the least practised of our old English sports, till the recent revival of the art as a music-hall “turn” — a use for which it was particularly well adapted, inasmuch as a Wrestling Match never fails to hold the interest of the spectator from first to last […]