The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . uccessive years did Richardsonwin the head prize at the Faulds Brow meeting,and between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-eight he lost not a single fall, although he attendedevery meeting for miles around. But it would fill a small volume to give thenames and exploits of the long list of champions —only three or four years—that thev were con-stant competitors in the Northern rings. Theformer is now nearer sixty than fifty, and Lowdenis but little less. Eighteen or 19 stone wasSteadmans weight ; while Lowden was perhap
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . uccessive years did Richardsonwin the head prize at the Faulds Brow meeting,and between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-eight he lost not a single fall, although he attendedevery meeting for miles around. But it would fill a small volume to give thenames and exploits of the long list of champions —only three or four years—that thev were con-stant competitors in the Northern rings. Theformer is now nearer sixty than fifty, and Lowdenis but little less. Eighteen or 19 stone wasSteadmans weight ; while Lowden was perhapsa stone lighter, yet they had the science as well ;and no man, except perhaps Jamieson of Penrithor Jackson of Kennieside, would have had muchchance against either. Yet on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion superior science (for yourlight-weights are the most skilful of wrestlers)gained the victory, and the oi- stone Willie Parkof Cockermouth upset huge Geordie Steadman. Itwas in 1877 that the heavy-weight prize at Grasmerewent to Steadman, and for many vears it was. STEADMAN AND LOWDEN IN HOLDS(Photo : W. Bahlry, Grasmere.) from Adam Dodd, the Cock of the North, downto those twin giants George Steadman and Hand-some George Lowden, whose burly figures arefamiliar enough to all interested in North countrywrestling. I would like to tell of John Weight-man and Tom Nicholson, of the great Tom Long-mire (the champion who showed Charles Dickenshow to tak hod when that great man visitedthe Ferry Sports in the earlv fifties) ; but space islimited. Nor can I say aught of that other well-known pair, Wright and Jamieson, or of Tom andRalph Pooley of Longlands, and the demon Tiffin, all of whom were in their prime when thegreat contests were held at the Agricultural Hall inLondon under the auspices of the Cumberland andWestmoreland Wrestling Society forty years ago. But Steadman and Lowden must have a para-graph to themselves, although it is not long since either he or Lowden who took
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