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him quietly over his knee with almost a giant's thew. 

 One of the defeated once graphically described to us 

 his sensations during the period that Bob had hold of 

 him. "He reached his right arm over and wrought 

 vie, and clicked me and felt me almost before I took hod." 

 Science was a thing he did not trouble himself much 

 about, but his hug was about equal in tenderness to 

 that of an Arctic bear. He was in the ring for at least 

 fourteen or fifteen years, and nearly as good as ever to 

 the last, and then, like poor Jackson of Kennyside, he 

 died of consumption. Sergeant of Brampton once 

 deprived him of the Carlisle belt, and, as the Cum- 

 brians put it, he " was owre kittle for him" Joe was 

 a neat twelve-stone man, and could reduce himself 

 sufficiently to wrestle in the eleven-stone ring. The 

 middle-weights didn't care to see him there, as he had 

 the swinging hype off to perfection. 



He was not long in the ring ; but no man has left a 

 more enduring memory than William Jackson, of 

 Kennyside. He won four years — 1 841 -1844 — at Car- 

 lisle, and was in fact " a representative man" among 

 Cumberland wrestlers, as Chapman was among those 

 of Westmoreland. The pair met seven times, and 

 Jackson had just the best of it ; but Chapman belonged 

 to an earlier period, and was not then in his heyday. 

 Jackson was fully six-feet-one in his stockings, and 

 weighed about fourteen stone. He had grand, open 

 shoulders, and, in fact, he was beautifully made to the 

 hips, but, like Tom King, the ex-pugilist, rather small 

 across the loins. He was too tall to put in the 

 buttock, but he could hype with the right leg, and 

 strike as well as click inside the heel with the left, with 

 marvellous quickness and precision. There was no 

 finer and better behaved wrestler, and never was such 

 universal sympathy felt for a man, as when he was 

 matched with Atkinson and defeated. Big as he was, 

 he looked a mere stripling by the side of the Magog 

 of Sleagill, when he came out to meet him for the 



