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Russell, Daniel; The Saturday Review, 22 August 1936, p. 243 He sat upon the low stone wall by the roadside and soaked his ancient bones in the sunlight. He was incredibly old. His brown face was seamed and crossed with a multitude of wrinkles. The hand which held his pipe shook as though palsied. Under […]
“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 […]
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The comparison with techniques from Judo is inaccurate, but the historical photographs taken by Redgrave as an important time-capsule of the sport in the late 1960s. We do not have permission to reproduce this material, but it is publicly available online via Google Books.