The hype became Richardson s main chip

The hype became Richardson s main chip

The hype became Richardson s main chip

The hype became Richardson's main chip; and a favourite method of stopping an opponentat which he was allowed to be a great adeptwas to give him a sudden click"kind o' bear him off his feet"and then lift and hype. If an opponent should attempt buttocking, his unrivalled strength of arm enabled him to gather his adversary up with a vice-like grip, anything but pleasant. Indeed, he never was buttocked but once, in the whole of a long career, and that once by John Nicholson of Threlkeld, in private practice one summer night in the neighbourhood of Ouse-bridge.