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to throw his rival. The one who touches 

 the ground first and is undermost, is the 

 loser. Though force and strength q-o for 

 much, skill is still more indispensable. The 

 ' chips,' or dexterous strokes, are numerous, 

 including the hype, the swinging hype, the 

 buttock, the cross-buttock, the back-heel, the 

 click inside. These would afford ample sub- 

 jects for the pictorial illustrator of a beauti- 

 ful athletic art. For example, English sculp- 

 tors have already imitated the Greek athlete 

 to death. Why should they not give us a 

 taste of English art ? Nothing can be seen 

 more lithe, elegant, and vigorous, than the 

 trained wrestlers on an English village 

 green, and more interest would attach to a 

 good statue of a Cumbrian proficient than to 

 one of Automedon, or Castor and Pollux." 



In due course George Moore's name was 

 called out, and divesting himself of his shirt 

 and jersey, he stepped into the ring. The 

 first man he encountered was a little bigger 

 than himself, but George Moore threw him 

 so cleverly that the question was asked 

 on every side, " Wha's yon ? Whar does 

 'e coom frae ? What's 'is naam ? " The 



