WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1264, 28 December 1882, Page 2

WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.

papers state, lhat ,a larae,,,,, for the chain- . pfonsbip of ttie'world and 1000 dol«„ America, and Joseph Acton, champion of •"■ men have,.wrestled ninety :<j times Jiefo'rej.andAejoii ' ;iouß, L «X:; ; times.,, i :He i i;iß : '29/!year's; old,™l -it't weighs) 1471b., land BtandsiSft.v sin.-ift: [ht\ 'height! -Bibby'Mb *33 years old, weigher-,:) vri lefilbs.i- ! and 'is. Mi,' bodies "glistened 'with "«»il ''as -they "">''''' advanced "at the referee's call to v time, l;: v ,; ' !l: to the centre of the. carpet, •■'j»rid i 'W ri '' ! olasped ! one ; anoiher/' ! .Tbe'mjich\'waß f'!|. accordingfto/Lancßißhirp; as;caich-.can'.'"'Bibby,showed, hiei.lack^'of'';,V|'- "•' coiifidence in himself from the start going._down on hi a jk n eea j. assumin k th e.. i i -*/f defensive, and thereby giving his opponeiit'.j ■)(/['. ' a great advantage. Acton grasped ImUn/i.'-i man firmly round the waist, beneath the armi,i,nd strove to turn him over onhia back j but the aoliyity of Bibby served bim in good stead, andwhen" his uppdneiit £7f) was • thought to have 'gotten him over, V V would suddenly , writhe around and would be 'hugging ;the'floor I 'again as tenaciously ,as • ever, " Kne>looki,"' '!back';trips'," '-'front,itrips',"'!Vigfape vines,!" hip -looks/ and all the arte.— known to the science of wrestling wore tried.«a. desperate, struggle of half-au-hour; during whioh the men would be one moment in the air and the next squirming on rthe floor. But it was apparent ■ that' the /Englishman wag the better wrestler of-the two.; Onoe,when.he looked <r . ■ as though had thrown; able uproar waa occajiotied by the announcing •-"Ml," and stating that according to the rules both shoulders of the failed wrestler must touch the floor together. The men, after the momentary " exoiteWent(occas[on^d' by.'tKe)dlsfuy' grappled s eacfi k -Wtf- •••' ,before., ,In r .3B ; min,utes.Jrom the traw they'' began ' wiestliri gj : 'Ao'tonj twining his arms around t the legs and the neck of ,the twwtod.ljiin over his back, and pushed both''shoulders squarely to, the /floor. Harry, .Hill .m><, st nburicei a '''first' fall for Ajpion','". ajnid •cheers: •'ThßmM''seerned^iacn : fa'tig'ue^l,' -,• and they theicVrobnis for teo/» '•' minutes. Atcheendofthattimethey.came. out and began the second trial; This time it was all one way, Aoton got tho American down, and .the struggle, on the floor r W short and sharp.; Hot[ve<aj T " 'Bibb/was, hVcoM doubled upjn a knot,.,by.,his, adversary, R and at the end of'fou'r minutes "and* a* half.hisibaokbonc collapsed, and the fall was awarded to Aoton, who wbb declared entitlod to the stakes, winning .two falls

the great tenor, bai t lost none of his power seems dear from the folio, winfrparagraph in a leading Don. doVweeklyt notice of the l Nilsson-KeeVei benefit concert:-" The great enthusiasm of the "audience, was reserved for the delivery of, the',Death of Nelson' by Mr i Siaß' i ßeby'e's , . l '' , ln i, tnl3' l (lle sin'geVs MhW ™ h matipa;bringaithe,losa)aQd : '.prow9w of » greatjiero. so, freshly to the mind that ne seemlo'standon the deok of the Victory and see.the battle and the fall. The man of listeners on this night appeared tramrpqrted)beyond!the .bounds; of i reason, afoul fcsbal .they clamoured so,wildly repetition ' the BiDger'fbund \ himself 'obliged'to'co'mfl'forward 'and peat the last verse after his long evening of ; exertion. His welcome was then, fl uproarious; but never, to our. thinking,'■■ v was an enopre. more to be deprecated than „". M onjthisocdasioW' 'l". J ''■'■'/\f\ I 5jJ

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