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pp.118-123. “We wish to say a few words, my men, to those who are ” going to play with the sticks or wrestle to-day. There has ” been agood deal of talk about these sports, as you all know ; ” and manypersons think they shouldn’t be allowed at all now” a-days-that thetimefor them has […]
Single Stick or Cudgel Playing is a very useful science, if learnt with the view of self preservation; but when practised as a game or amusement it is thoroughly brutal. The playing, as it was erroneously called, was conducted as follows Half-a-dozen casks were rolled on the Parade or some open place, on which were […]
Somersetshire Wrestling at the Furnham Hotel, Chard, A purse of 15 Sovereigns, will be wrestled for, On Thursday and Friday, the 29th and 30th days of July, 1847, in the DEVONSHIRE STYLE !!! OPEN TO ALL ENGLAND. Dated 21st July 1847 – TOMS, PRINTER, CHARD. This poster is currently in the collection of the […]