Word: broadsword
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...winter meeting of the H. A. A. in the Gymnasium will include the following events; Vaulting, one hand; Vaulting, two hands; Horizontal Bar; Indian Club Swinging; Standing High Jump; Light, Middle, and Heavy Weight Wrestling; Light, Middle, and Heavy Weight Sparring; Fencing; Broadsword Exercises; and Tugs...
...contestants are amateurs and the object is a deserving one. The programme is as follows: Heavy dumbbells; picking up heavy weights; putting the shot; three-legged race; one-mile walk; pulling up, one and two arms; half-mile run; hitch-and-kick; sack-race; horizontal bar; foil and broadsword fencing; tumbling; rowing eight oars; single and double somersaults; hurdle-racing; potato-race; tug of war; three-mile walk; standing and running high jump, etc. Further particulars can be obtained from General Lister, who has been requested to act as referee...