Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 27
other,in which the wrestler did not require to fear a fall, wasstyled the horizontal mode. It was also called the rotatory. »4 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. because in their evolutions and intertwinings the wrestlers^now uppermost now undermost, rolled upon the tan fromone side of the arena… … Contest with the Ends of the Fingers. (From a painted vase in the Hamiltoncollection.) comes from the Greek aKpo<^, extreme, %6tp, the hand. ButKraus, whose work on the gymnastics of the Greeks is anauthority, shows that acrocheirisim was only the prelude tothe wrestle properly so called, and…
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