Anglo, in the early 1908 in British wrestling community they still didn't appreciate "up and down wrestling" considering it "foreign"...that's how you get "good, manly, stand-up".
Anglo thanks esp this paragraph - "...beautifully clean work of Bacon, the ultimate winner, deserves notice. His style of good, manly, stand-up wrestling should be held up as a pattern to the modern school."
The official is wearing a boater. Not something usually associated with wrestling
1908 GR Olympics Final, Richárd Weisz v Aleksandr Petrov.
Interesting that a doctor from Russia was also a wrestler
Anglo, in the early 1908 in British wrestling community they still didn't appreciate "up and down wrestling" considering it "foreign"...that's how you get "good, manly, stand-up".
Nice share, thanks Ruslan.