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adversary adversary's after-play allowed Ambleside antagonist arm round assailant athletic exercises attack and defence back-heel best method body buttock Carlisle catch CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN catch-hold style celebrated champions chest chip clasp commence constitutes a fall contest counties cross-buttock cross-heave Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian Devonian Donald Dinnie double nelson elbow encounter expert exponents feet FLYING MARE forbidden fore-hand play formidable French wrestling frequently Grasmere grasp grip ground wrestling HALF-NELSON hands fast hank head heave hipe hiper INSIDE LOCK FORWARD jacket jerk knee Lancashire style Lancashire wrestling land and Westmorland left hand left leg left side lift Longtown manœuvre match north-country opponent opponent's left opponent's right position practised present day prize proficient referee Richard Wright right arm right hand round the waist rules Scotland shoulders sport stand Strangler stroke struggle style of wrestling taking hold throw touches the ground twist your right weight Westmorland fashion Westmorland style whereas wrestlers wrist
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Page 2 - STYLI guidance of competitors may not be out of place here. On taking hold, the wrestlers stand up, chest to chest, each placing his chin on his opponent's right shoulder, and grasping him round the body, each having his left arm above the right of his antagonist. When both men have got hold and are fairly on their guard, the play begins ; and with the exception of kicking they are allowed to use every legitimate means to throw...
Page 46 - ... to tighten their hold round their opponent's body or otherwise. 4. The wrestlers must have their hair cut short, also their finger-nails, and they must wrestle either barefooted or with socks. 5. If one of the wrestlers fall on his knee, shoulder, or side, they have to start again. 6. If the wrestlers roll over each other, the one whose shoulders shall touch the carpet first is deemed conquered. 7. To be conquered, it is necessary that both shoulders of the fallen shall touch the ground at the...
Page 2 - If the antagonists fall side by side, or in any such way that the umpires cannot decide which was first on the ground, it is called a " dog-fall,'1 and must be wrestled over again.
Page viii - Wrestling was deenwd the most manly and entertaining amusement then exhibited in the presence of these two mighty Monarchs, and their Courts. A grand national and scientific display of this athletic art took place between a number of Champions selected from both Nations, in which our Countrymen were victorious. However one mortified French historian pretends their King left better Wrestlers at home than those who accompanied him ! and by way of redeeming the defeat of his Countrymen, asserts that...
Page 46 - The wrestling is with open hands, and the wrestlers are not allowed to strike, scratch, or to clasp hands. Clasping hands means that the wrestlers shall not clasp one of their hands within the other, nor interlace their fingers ; but they are allowed to grasp their own wrists to tighten their hold round their opponent's body or otherwise.
Page 2 - If either party breaks his hold, that is, loses his grip, though not on the ground, and the other still retains his hold, the one so leaving loose shall be the loser. If either man touches the ground with one knee only, or any other part of his body, though he may still retain his hold, he shall not be allowed to recover himself, but shall be deemed the loser.
Page 16 - ... Penrith Races in the year 1813, was, in our judgment, the best at this stroke of any man we ever saw practise it. Sometimes it is made use of after lifting, by throwing the knee outside an opponent's thigh ; a method we have in propria persona often practised with great success. The second is generally termed in and out, owing to striking out with the leg, so that the knee of the assailant is outside his opponent's, and the foot inside his ancle, or small of the leg, — thus placing a kind of...
Page viii - Hownvor, one mortified French historian pretends their king left better wrestlers at home than those who accompanied him ; and by way of redeeming the defeat of his countrymen, asserts that Francis himself was a most excellent wrestler, and in a contest between the two rival monarchs threw Henry with great violence. Antecedently to this period, wrestling was a favorite amusement, as well among the nobility as the yeomanry and inferior classes : the prize varying according to the rank of the combatants....
Page 2 - When both men have a firm hold and are fairly on their guard the play commences, and, with the exception of kicking, they are allowed to use every legitimate means to throw each other. If either party breaks his hold, that is, leaves loose, though not on the ground, and the other still retains his hold, the one so leaving loose shall be the loser. If either man touches the...
Page 41 - nelsons"— the " half-nelson," and the " double-nelson." The first is thus described : — " As you face your opponent, grasp him by the right wrist with your left hand, then thrust your right hand quickly under his arm, while you firmly seize him by the neck and press his head forward. Your adversary is then completely in your power, as you can quit his right hand, and, by clasping him round the waist, give him the Cornish ' heave