Wrestling

By Walter Armstrong

Introduction

though generally described by its admirers as an ancient English exercise has claims this on history So far as we can ascertain it was form of athletic pastime man’s chief desire having been the beginning of the world to get his fellow down often to keep him there Not only is a wrestling be found recorded in Holy Writ but many of the and sculptors with a taste for scriptural subject the combat between Michael and Lucifer a match fair holds the latter coming to grief generally by back heel the click or the hipe as the fancy of the artist dictated When Greece emerging from obscurity and to take the lead in civilization in military in the cultivation of learning and sciences the public games not only to infuse a generous and into the minds of the joung men but also to bodily strength was too apparent to be we find that wrestling and other athletic were not only practised in each particular state the highest honours and rewards were bestowed on at the Olympic Nemean and other games were awarded and contended for before the Without doubt wrestling beyond almost any…