70 Saddle and Sirloin. 



" Rutson," as he was called, was another old standard, 

 and he and Tom Nicholson, Jonathan Watson (a rare 

 buttocker) and " Roan" Long, were in constant requi- 

 sition as umpires after they left the ring. Will won 

 at Carlisle when he was quite a veteran of forty-six. 

 He had not very high science, and used generally to 

 hug his men down, but he could hype and strike 

 pretty well with the left leg. Fauld's Brow, near 

 Caldbeck, was his chief ring, and he won the head 

 prize there nine or ten times. This gathering gene- 

 rally took place in October, about a month after 

 Carlisle races whose fixture has been changed and 

 its belt was quite as hard to win as that on The 

 Swifts. 



William Cass was a noted wrestler. He was a very 

 thick-set, burly man, 6ft. lin., and seventeen stone, 

 and therefore very difficult to lift, and active withal. 

 In his science he was not first-class, though he struck 

 well with the left leg. He had a match with George 

 Irving at the Castle Inn and won. Chapman also 

 met him at Carlisle, and threw him in the two 

 first falls out of three ; but he was then past his best. 

 Another noted wrestler was Thomas Richardson of 

 Caldbeck, commonly called " Tom Dyer." His 

 principal chip was the hype with either leg. Being 

 almost 6ft. and a thirteen-stone man, he was remark- 

 ably clean in his falls, and most men were afraid of 

 him. As the Carlisle wrestling was discontinued for 

 some years, the Crow Park ring at the Keswick 

 regatta and races became the most important in 

 Cumberland. The head prize, in 1819, was won by 

 William Wilson of Ambleside, an active wrestler of 

 the same build and size as Jackson of Kennyside. In 

 1821 the head prize was carried off by a young eleven- 

 stone man from Torpenhow, and in 1823 by Jonathan 

 Watson. The former day's wrestling gave great 

 impetus to the art ; it brought lighter men forward, 

 and revived the wrestling that year at Carlisle, where 



