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best of five falls in that Flan ring, which has never 

 had so many thousands round it either before or since. 

 George Donaldson, " stood the giant," and counselled 

 him most strictly not to make play, or Jackson was 

 certain to have him, and his word proved true enough 

 in one round. After going to grass, Atkinson was 

 more obedient, and gave away no more chances, but 

 stood like a rock, and fairly crushed his man down. 

 The late Lord Carlisle, who was looking on, presented 

 Jackson with 5/., but no pulleys could bring up the 

 poor fellow's heart, and he was never the same man 

 again. 



Taylor of Wythmoor, who threw " Bob" Gordon in 

 the final fall at Carlisle in '45, and had the tables 

 turned on him the next year, was a rare buttocker ; 

 and Thomas Longmire, a man of about Chapman's 

 size, was all science, and equally great in buttocking, 

 striking, and hyping. Todd, of Plumbland, was good 

 for a year or two ; and Moss, of Temple-Sowerby, 

 wrestled well as a "colt," and went through his men 

 in great style for the Carlisle belt. Palmer of New- 

 castle was also a good man, and took Gordon as his 

 model ; and Haliwell of Penrith, an eleven-stone man, 

 was " full of chips." W. Donald of Dearham — the 

 home of " lal Tiffin," the nine-and-a-half-stone hero, 

 who " has everything off" — had a unique method of 

 pulling men on to his knee. Dick Wright of Long- 

 town, who keeps his wrestling year after year as well as 

 Lord Wilton does his riding to hounds, also relies 

 very much on a specialty. It can only be described 

 as a peculiar and most effective jerk off the breast, 

 which no one save Mossop of Egremont, ever seemed 

 to practice. Mossop threw Longmire twice out of 

 three times with it, Chapman twice, and Jackson 

 once ; and they all said afterwards that they didn't 

 know how to meet it. 



Weardale has been fertile in champions. Its Pattin- 

 son was an eleven-stone man, and good enough to win 



