Then in his eighty-fourth year

Then in his eighty-fourth year

In the month of September, 1875, Todd, then in his eighty-fourth year, went to the house door, beckoned to the farm-workers that dinner was ready, and immediately after passed quietly away. From the fact of the Knarsdale athlete having attained this great ageand he was only one of many who didwe may draw pretty conclusive evidence, that the northern pastime of wrestling does not, as a rule, shorten life.

Source: Wrestlings and Wrestlers