The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 128
Olympia.)Instead of boxing gloves, the ancients BOXING 119 BREATH FIGURES used the cestus, an arrangement ofleather strips wound around thehand and sometimes up the arm asfar as the elbow. These were some-times loaded with lumps of lead andwere very dangerous. In ancientboxing contests the right… … Cestus. the eighteenth century, when it be-gan to be called the noble art ofself-defense. A teacher of boxingnamed Broughton, who is said tohave invented the boxing-glove atthis time, gave public exhibitions ofhis skill in a theater, which he builtfor the purpose. Boxing contestswithout gloves,…
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