The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Wodehouse – Wrestling

Wodehouse

Sir William, i. 71

Wokingham Stakes

iii. 436 Wolf (Canis lupus), i. 244, 245 (Canis pallipes), i. 244, 245

Wolf

J., ii. 185

Wolfhound

Irish, ii. 100 Russian. See Borzoi

Wombwell

Sir George, ii. 148

Wood

A. W., iv. 213 E. P., ii. 60 . 182 - H. E., iv. 415, 416 John (Falconer), ii. 182 John (Falconer Luke (Falconer), ii.

Robert (Falconer), ii. 18 William, ii. 58

Woodcock

iv. 344-346 American (Scolopus rusticula), iv. 344 European (Philohela minor), iv. 344

Woodcote Stakes

ii. 406

Wootton

Frank, iii. 405 - S., iii. 405

Worcester

John Tiptoft earl of, (1466), iii. 258 Marquis of, ii. 148 William earl of, iii. 261

Wortley

Stuart, ii. 409

Wrestling

iv. 346-353 Catch as catch can. See Lancashire.

Cornwall and Devon, iv. 350 Cumberland and Westmorland, iv. 347 Glima, iv. 352 Græco-Roman, iv. 346 Indian, iv., 352 Japanese, iv. 352 Lancashire, iv. 349 Scotch, iv. 351

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