The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-30
Sir Thomas Parkyns Was Famed as Authority
 on Wrestling Game

Many titled Britishers besides the Marquis of Queensberry and Lord LonsdaIe have been patrons of pugi- 1isn, but the wrestling game has also had it's ardent devotees among the ttupper crust of English society. Perhaps the most famous of these early authorities on the graphing art Bunny Park, in sNottingharnshire, the author of a classic work, ''The Inn Play, or Cornish Hugg Wrestler" from which the present-day practi- tfoner of the mat game may obtain much good advice and valuable in- years ago today, .in his seventy eight year. and, thanks to his devo- ton to wrestling and other sports, never knew a day of illness until that which resulted fatally. He was a. man of great learning, but his fame as lawyer and magistrate is forgot ten.. while he is still honored as the foremost student of the ancient art and science of wrestling.
 While a student at Cambridge and at London he took instructions from the best masters in wrestling and boxing, but the latter sport, then in it's infancy, did not appeal to him as did wrestling. On his ancestral es- tate, which he inherited soon after his student days, he held annually a great wrestling tournament The prize was a goId-1aced hat; worth only about five dollars, but the glory was so great that grapplers from all over England Sflocked to the contest The gold hat wrestling matches were con tinued long after his death, but were abandoned about a century ago.
 Sir Thomas would have no servant or workman on his estate who was not a good wrestler. When he want ed to employ a. new man the appli- cant was required to wrest1e with the baronet, and it took a good man to get the best of him. even when he was past the three-score-and- mark Sir Thomas declared that this test gave him the best stan in the kingdom, because no man could be a good wrestler unless he was sober and lived a clean life. In his book Sir Thomas gave a bit of advice that Is just as good today as when it was
 Whoever would be a complete wrestler must avoid being overtaken fin drink which very much enervates, or, being in a passion at the sight a fall, in such cases he is bereaved of his senses, not being master Of himself is less of his art. but sheweth too much play, or none at all. or rather pH1leth, kicketh and venturfth beyond all reason and his iudgnn ent T. #
 In his instructions in wrestling Sir Thomas explained all the holds and throws then in vogue His directions for s.the flying horse'--tne throw adopted in America as the spread eagle's-are as follows.
 Take him by your right hand with your left, your palm being upwards as if you designed only to shake him by the hand in a friendly manner in the beginning, and twist it outwards. and lift it upwards to make way for your head, and put your head under his right arm pit, and hold him out of his strength, then put your right arm up to the shoulder between his grainings, and let your hand appear behind past his breech, but if you suspect they will cavl1 at that arm, as breeching, lay your arm along his belly. and lift. him up as high as your head and in >either hold, when so high, lean backward. and throw him over your head.
 The flying horse, was a, favorite of Sir Thomas, and before his death he had a. marble ef1gy made of him. self, in wrestling costume and in the attitude of the first position of the wrestler about to perpetrafe the epIxx=v, I,r t 4s