Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 527
and Cumber-land style of wrestlingis certain, and it isprimarily to wrestlingthat the sports owe theposition they hold to-day in the Athleticworld. It is certain, fromdocumentary evidencewhich the writer hasseen, that, in 1852,several of the moreprominent sportinggentlemen of the dis-trict (of whom… … Wrestling. Sports occupied two days and included steeple-chasing ; now the fixture is for one day onlyand the horse element has long been eliminatedfrom the programme.The events during thelast thirty years havecomprised Heavy\\eight and Light\\eight Wrestling,(luides Race, Pole andHigh Leaping, and…
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