There is every prospect of the meeting to-day being very uninteresting. There are no entries in the heavy weight sparring and only two men are in the middle weight, which, with the tug-of-war will constitute the only enjoyable part of the meeting. The wrestling is inevitably tedious if the men are well matched, and farcical if they are not. With this gloomy outlook before us, the least the stewards can do is to make everything go off as quickly as possible, and to see that there are no unnecessary delays between the events. One more thing also they can do. They can insist that the wrestlers be given a hold before the patience of the audience is utterly exhausted. If the wrestling could be made short, sharp and decisive like the sparring, it would become one of the features of the meetings instead of being one of the things which are inevitable and that one accepts as a dispensation.
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