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WRESTLING AT GRASMERE SPORTS, WESTMORLAND.
"Of all the athletic amusements of the people, wrestling is beyond doubt the best," wrote Christopher North a century ago. But of recent years the sport has greatly declined in popularity, though that it is not defunct is proved by the fact that several thousands of persons assemble to watch the competitors at Grasmere. At these sports is held the best of the few survivors of the innumerable wrestling gatherings of about fifty or sixty years ago. In front of the grand stand, shown in our picture, step big men and little men, anything from ten to eighteen stone in weight, and pair after pair "tak' ho'd," from the man of five-and-forty years of age to the youngster of nineteen. The game undoubtedly teaches a man to keep on his feet, and skill and science have a big advantage over mere weight and strength.