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North Country Sports And Pastimes

North Country Sports And Pastimes

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Author
Gilpin, Sidney, -1892
Title
Wrestling and Wrestlers Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting
Credits
Produced by Roberta Staehlin, David Garcia, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
Subject
Wrestling
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37562
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37562
Release Date
September 29, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.NORTH COUNTRY SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
  2. 2.SIDNEY GILPIN.
  3. 3.PREFACE. — Local Works on the Subject.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.INTRODUCTION. — ANCIENT GRECIAN WRESTLING. — WRESTLING IN JAPAN. — INDIAN WRESTLING. — WRESTLING MATCH IN TURKEY. — OLD ENGLISH WRESTLING. — WRESTLING IN SCOTLAND. — IRISH WRESTLING.
  6. 6.CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND WRESTLING. — BIDDEN WEDDINGS.
  7. 7.MELMERBY ROUNDS.
  8. 8.LANGWATHBY ROUNDS.
  9. 9.JAMES FAWCETT — OF NENTHEAD.
  10. 10.WILLIAM RICHARDSON — OF CALDBECK. — " BELTED WILL. "
  11. 11.WILLIAM LITT — OF BOWTHORN. — ADDENDA.
  12. 12.MILES AND JAMES DIXON — OF GRASMERE.
  13. 13.ROWLAND AND JOHN LONG — OF AMBLESIDE.
  14. 14.TOM NICHOLSON — OF THRELKELD. — FIRST ROUND. — SECOND ROUND. — THIRD ROUND. — FOURTH ROUND. — FIFTH ROUND.
  15. 15.WILLIAM MACKERETH — OF COCKERMOUTH.
  16. 16.HARRY GRAHAM — OF BRIGHAM.
  17. 17.JAMES SCOTT — OF CANONBIE.
  18. 18.ROBERT ROWANTREE, — OF KINGWATER.
  19. 19.WILLIAM DICKINSON — OF ALSTON.
  20. 20.GEORGE DENNISON — OF PENRITH.
  21. 21.JAMES ROBINSON — OF HACKTHORPE.
  22. 22.THOMAS RICHARDSON — OF HESKET-NEW-MARKET.
  23. 23.TOM TODD — OF KNARSDALE.
  24. 24.WILLIAM WILSON — OF AMBLESIDE.
  25. 25.JOHN WEIGHTMAN — OF HAYTON.
  26. 26.JOHN MC.LAUGHLAN — OF DOVENBY.
  27. 27.BULL BAITING.
  28. 28.BADGERS AND BADGER BAITING.
  29. 29.ADDENDA — MIDNIGHT CHASE OF A BULL BY PROFESSOR WILSON. — THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
  30. 30.INDEX. — G. AND T. COWARD, PRINTERS, CARLISLE.

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