Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 76
of Liverpool recognises the paganHercules as its patron, and the torso of that famous athletefigures in the centre of the medals which they distribute. Among the games practised in Scotland none is morepopular than tossing the caber, which consists of throwing upa fir-tree of about twelve feet in… … THROWING THE HAMMER IN SCOTLAND. 5^. GAUCfJAR^ ENGLISH WRESTLERS—T. T0PHAM. 71 throws it up vertically. If it is successfully thrown it oughtto come down upon its broad end, and stand a momentperpendicular before it falls. . The hammer, which isused in another Scotch game of a similar kind, is a…
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