From the exceeding clever manner in which he swung his opponents

From the exceeding clever manner in which he swung his opponents

From the exceeding clever manner in which he swung his opponents

It is very probable there never met on the Swifts as good a field of wrestlers. Richardson acknowledged afterwards that he stood most in awe of Joseph Robley of Scarrowmannick, from the exceeding clever manner in which he swung his opponents. Robley, by the way, has been credited with being the first introducer of the swinging hype. They met in the third round, and the Caldbeck veteran succeeded in disposing of the one he looked upon as his greatest bugbear. The third round also proved fatal to several other good wrestlersJonathan Watson, James Graham, and Joseph Abbot going down. Weightmanthen twenty-two years old, all bone and muscle, standing six feet three inches high, and weighing fifteen-and-a-half stonesfell in the fourth round. Glendinning, (a rough tearing hand, from the neighbourhood of Penrith, compared to whom a bull in a china shop was as nothing,) fell in the fifth round; leaving Ford of Ravenglassvictor over Weightman at Egremont, weighing over fifteen stones, and measuring six feet two inchesfor the final fall with Richardson. The latter succeeded in throwing the young, formidable West Cumbrian, and carried off the head prize amid much shouting and cheering.