Booklist

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The historical notes and photographs are taken from the forthcoming book,

 
“THE WRESTLING HERITAGE of EUROPE and the AMERICAS
  
A Pictorial Encyclopedia of a Neglected Treasure”
 
By William Baxter & David P Webster 
  
     
Author
Title
Cost
     
David Webster
Donald Dinnie The First Sporting Superstar
£12:95 plus postage.
Donald Dinnie The First Sporting Superstar by David Webster
 Scotland’s greatest athlete was born at Balnacraig, near Aboyne on June 8th 1837; he won his first sporting contest, a challenge match in Backhold wrestling at the age of 16 years. The match for £1 a side was his first wrestling match for money and took place at the Feeing Market in Kincardine O’Neil.  Dinnie won all five falls and his spectacular career commenced; transport was becoming easier and champions like Dinnie could travel from area to area in the summer to compete at highland games and earn a good living. Among his medal collection, which is held by the City of Aberdeen is one, which he won in Dundee in 1867 for the Scottish wrestling championship.  A magnificent silver belt presented to Dinnie in 1900 by the Scottish people, can be seen in Aberdeen Art Gallery.  Dinnie died in East Croydon, London on April 2nd 1916.
     
 
LES JEUX POPULAIRES, Eclipse Et Renaissance
£4:00 plus postage.
LES JEUX POPULAIRES, Eclipse Et Renaissance
 Published in Karaez in Brittany in October 1998 and is bi-lingual, (French and English). The subject is the revival of traditional sport in Europe and it contains a chapter by William Baxter, President of the International Federation of Celtic Wrestling (the FILC). This chapter gives a brief summary of 98 European wrestling styles.  The summary, which is illustrated is 55 pages long, gives one hundred and twenty five references. 
     
Roger Robson
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND WRESTLING
A Documentary History
£8:95 plus postage.
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND WRESTLING A Documentary History by Roger Robson
 Perhaps the best-recorded style of traditional wrestling in  Europe is the so-called Cumberland style, which is a Backhold style practiced in the North of England and the Border counties of Scotland.  A new book was published in July 1999 to coincide with the European Championships in Celtic Wrestling and it is a “must” for any student of traditional wrestling. 
     

 

 

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