Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-15
WRESTLING.
Can ths Noble Sport Ret be Revived E. Death of Famous cid Wrestler.
 From the London Telegraph1

Can ths Noble Sport nes be Revived s- Death of a Famous cid Wrestler. From the London Telegraph
 One of the last of the veteran wrestlsrs- one of the Cumberland men-was found dead in his bed at Stafford two days ago, death re- sulting ''from natural causes" For soMs years past he had kept the Grown Inn, the headquarters of the Cumberland and West moreland society in Manchester, of which body he was the permanent umpire. He was one of the old Grassmsrs school, and possessed a rich fund of anecdote concerning the heroes of the great craft, which, fer some reason or other, seems to be dying out among us. The North eountrynsn still practice it, and keep up the hereditary secrets of hooking aad gripping and "cross buttoek," but wrestling canAot in any sense be said to be national pastims, or one that is cultivated in such a scientific spirit as are the arts of boxing and fencing
 Wrestling is comparatively left out in the cold. We see no example of it in our "grand assaults of arms" There are no prominent professors of it, no exhibitions of this pecul- iarly pretty and highly respectable and an eient pastins. We would commend the reading of the accounts we have of the life and labors of that fine old English gentle I Hall, Nottinghsmshirs, who died on March 29, TAI, who was ripe scholar and good classic, en energetic county magistrate, and passionately devoted to this sport. At Cam bridge Sir Thomas studied mechanics in their application to feats of dsxterity and strength, and brought to great perfection such throws as that termed by adopts the Plying Horse" When he settled down early in life on his ancestral estate at Bunay, he at once established an annual wrestling match in his park, open to all corners. The prize was gold laced hat, value 22s., and 3s. for the second best. True, the amount was small, but the glory was great; the lord of the manor was wont himself to try fall on these occasions-and more than once won and wore the gold-laced hat himself. All his servants were upright, well~built, muscu- lar fellows, and everyone of then 8 skilled wrestler. Indeed, his favorite eoachman and fsetman had daringly defeated the worthy baronet himself in wrestling ring, throwing him in so thoroughly artistic a fashion that Sir Thomas heart warmed to them at once, and he immediatsly took them both into service. Thsrs was sound policy in this, for he knew that good and power ful wrestler could be no other than . sober man.
 His directions for giving the Flying Horse" are as follows: ''Take him by the right hand with your left, your palm being upward, as if designed only to shake hira by the hand in a friendly manner in the beginning"-here Sir Thomas cer- tainly condeseends to something like fraud -"then twist it outward, and lift it up- ward so as to make room for your head, and put your head under his right arm pit, and hold his hand down to your left side, hold your head stiff backward, to hold him out of his strength, then put your right arm up to the shoulder be- tween his grainings, and then"-aftsr giv- ing some shrewd hints as to how 10 avoid being ''cavilled at" for "breeohing," which was against the rules-F'lift him as high as your head, lean backward, and throw him over your head" Judging from the monument of this worthy in the chancel of Bunny church, where he is depicted in his wrestling dress and postured in the first position of wrestling, he must have been fine, stout fellow, and no doubt astonished many a novice with the sensation of the Flying Horse" He never knew days illness until his 18th year, when death, as he puts it on his own monument, gave him the back-fall. The matches he instituted were kept up for a long time in his memory, but appear to have died out in the early part of this century.
 It may be that there are some such spirits yet among us who will take up the craft, and who knows but that on next years card for the Inter University sports we may find the rival Blues entered fer 8 bout at the "Cornish Hugg" in the new Queens Club grounds!