218 Life and Times of " The DriiidT 

 have their annual wrestling match on that 



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day, and accordingly he repaired to Chelsea 

 to observe their sports. When he reached 

 the trysting place, he found the wrestling 

 green crowded with north country folk ; big, 

 brawny men, with broad shoulders and great 

 girth, professional wrestlers and amateur 

 wrestlers, intermingled with groups of sport- 

 ing and betting spectators. Among them 

 were many life-guardsmen, as there is no 

 more favourite recruiting ground for troopers 

 for the Household Brigade than the border 

 counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland and 

 N orthumberland. 



Among the throngs collected together, 

 George Moore found a young Quaker from 

 Torpenhow, in Cumberland, who had won 

 the wrestling belt at Keswick a few years 

 before. The two young men had already 

 met and tried their strength as wrestlers in 

 the north country, and now renewed their 

 acquaintance in the south. Inspired by his 

 rencontre with an old friend, George Moore 

 put down his name as a competitor. Some 

 who were present on the occasion have de- 

 scribed him as middle-sized, very strong 



