Identifier: fencing1890poll (find matches)
Title: Fencing
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Pollock, Walter Herries, 1850-1926 Grove, F. C Prevost, Camille Michell, E. B Armstrong, Walter Castle, Egerton, 1858-1920
Subjects: Fencing Boxing Wrestling
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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shire this isdisallowed, but in Cornwall it is up to the present sometimespermitted. No competitor is allowed to take hold of hisopponents drawers, belt, or handkerchief, but he may graspthe bottom corners of his jacket. Three minutes are allowedbetween each bout, and usually fifteen minutes between each* back/ or fair fall. The great amount of unsatisfactory judging, and the hagglingand * fratching inseparable from West-country wrestlingmeetings in London, have been the means of wiping out nearlyall traces of Cornwall and Devon wrestlers, as a body, from themetropolis, a circumstance much to be regretted, as a littlemore unity among the patrons of the sport, a revision of theirrules, especially relative to their definition of a fall, and a com-plete revolution of the wrestHng * uniform of the competitors,would have insured the popularity of the exercise. As anillustration of the absurdity of the old tossilised regulations inquestion, one case will suffice. At a wrestling gathering in
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The Heave, Cornwall and Devon STYLES AND SYSTEMS 225 London some years ago, John Graham, the celebrated Cumber-land wrestler, threw an opponent no fewer than sixteen times,but on each occasion the verdict was no fall Now, underNorthern laws, or any other laws which merely state that oneman shall be fairly and squarely thrown, Grahams opponentwould have been defeated at the very first trial, whereasthe men ultimately * tossed up and the Cumbrian lost, hisopponent securing the verdict. Yet, in spite of all these fatalobjections to their rules, Cornish and Devonshire wrestlersmaintain that their system is the best of all known methodsthroughout the world. Surely the majority of athletes, andespecially those interested in this ancient sport, will agreethat a moment of resolute and scientific exertion on the * firstdown to lose principle is worth a weeks barn-door fowlsparring in canvas jackets, and dog-fighting on the ground, andmust create more enthusiasm and excitement than any amountof

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