Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-06-23
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
pIcroR,AI. ana NATION.

a late edition of the Spoyfiag Times
and ThedhrieR Jo,qadl, 4 sort of sensa-
tional catchpenny pictorial, published
away down East, has 4 picture oh its
first page which would naturally at
tract the eye of most people hereabout
hot from its lasciviouS style, artistic
finish or beauty of design particularly,
but 1t purpOrts to represent Il wrestling
match for $500 between two female
Athletes at Virginia City, Nevada.
They are represented Is writhing and
twisting about at 4 ferocious rate in Il
double and twisted embrace, contest
ing for the superiority rs wrestlers, in
a sort Of cockpit, surrounded by 4
scandaous, hard looking lot of male
and female spectators. II Is needless
for us to state that nobody at Virginia
or anywhere else ia this section knows
or ever heard of this interesting ath-
letic episode. or anything like it; but
it goes to show how far the Down East
pictorial Imagination can extend, and
how such ridiculous notions can be
manufactured out of whole cloth. By
way Of explaining this unreliable
illustration, that unreliable sheet gives
the following:
1.-The desire of the ladies to unSeX
themselves, and to emulate the moral
and physical ability of the sterner sex,
recently eliminated IN 4 wrestling
match In Virginia City, Nevada, in
which Miss Harriet Cook and Miss
Bette Sinclair contested for the honor
of the championship. The ladies, who
were members ola female gymnasium,
made arrangements to test their re-
spectiye merits, and at IL O'Clock, noon,
met at the Virginia Hall, in that city,
accompanied by their hackers. They
entered the ring, and, emitting the
usual preliminaries, went to work as
soon IS they arrived on the ground.
The contestants were dressed in the
usual ring style-fleSh-colored shirts,
drawers and pantalettes-and both en-
tered the arena at the same time. At
4 signal from the umpire the ladies
clasped each other, but the well-knit
and robust form of Miss Cook proved
too much for her antagonist, and she
succeeded in throwing Miss Sinclair
three times out of five. The match
created considerable excitement, and
the appearance of Miss Cook in the
ring Indicated that her muscular de-
yelopment was too much for the
strategy of Miss Sinclair, and ut the
end Of the twelfth ronnd she was pre-
sented with a purse Of $500. 1t IS
estimated that 5000 changed hands
ON the result of this encounter. The
u,;unar M rhis match intends to Chal-
lenge Homer Lane for 4 similar o n
test"
Now we think oIr resident readers
will agree with us that this is pretty
good for ..high." The style of dress
described in the item must have been
lovely. especially the "pantalettes."
II the Down casters get up these nice
little female wrestling matches, that Is
their own business. but it is mighty
mean TO try and play them off OH us.
No, thank you. mot for Joe;' our
state of society has not got worked
quite up to this illustrated pitch. Our
sins are enough without having any
thing in that line slanderously piled
upon us, that we are not guilty OF.
This, however, is only a specimen OF
plenty more just such indignities 4
have been In times past, ard still are,
continually put upon Us by lying pic
torials. The artists connecting such
atrocities should be Summarily arrested
and put i'm an insane asylum, or con-
demned ever afterward to form the
subjects Of their " internal Illus
trations.