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 788
shoulder or side, a new startmust be made. 5. Should the principals roll overeach other, the one whose shoul-der shall touch the ground first isdeemed conquered. 6. A rest of not less than tennor more than twenty-five minutesshall be allowed between each bout. 7. Two shoulders touching theground… … Wrestling—Fig. 9. but finally their use was forbiddenand the wrestlers contended naked,their bodies being made slipperywith oil. In the middle ages wrest-ling was a sport only among thelower classes, though knights andnobles often looked on at wrestlingbouts. They were very rough, andthe wrestlers…
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