The Athletes and Athletic Sports of Scotland

64 ATHLETIC SPORTS OF SCOTLAND. the Cumberlandstyle are,that each wrestler's right arm is under his opponent's left, and the left over the right; that after both men have had their hands claspedbehind eachother's backs, if one of them shall unclasp his hands while the other retains his hold, the one losing his hold loses the fall, although never off his feet; that theone who first touches the ground with any part of his body above his feet loses thefall; tripping ofany kind is allowed, but no kicking. SCOTTISH STYLE ,—Over the rest of Scotland, until about fifteen years ago,the wrestlers took hold as in the Cumberland style, occasionallywith right arm over opponent's left; and at times objectionwas taking to tripping, but the main differences were that a man did not lose the fall by losing his hold, and a fall was not decided until one orother was unmistakably down, that is, on his back or with one buttock andshoulder on the ground at the same time. There were few hard andfast rules. Wrestling was judged oncommon-sense principles when it had to be decided in the Centraland Northern Counties. But until recent years wrestling was often not included at Scottish games except on the Borders, consequently the leading athletes whose names were household words atstone, hammer, and caber never practised nor trained themselves as wrestlers, but took their chance in the bestway they could when wrestling happened to be included in the programme. But at Bridge of Allan and around Glasgow wrestling began to form an important feature at each meeting, and good prizes were given. The resultwas that good wrestlers from the Borders andNorth of England came forward, andmen like theTaits inthe south. Baton and Fleming in the centre, Dinnie and George, and latterly Davidson and M'Rae, in the north, went down before men often much their inferiors instrength and action. Dinnie had wrestled between twenty and thirty years ago with the English champions, Jamieson and Wright, and knew that superior strength and action were of little avail without science in the Cumberland style. So heat length determined to introducea style in which