Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 28 October 1892

Wrestling Champion at Kilnhurst

The visit of the champion wrestler from Bolton to Kilnhurst will remain green in our memory for some little time to come.

Champion wrestlers have no more right to enter a public-hoses and partake of John Barleycorn at the expense of other people, and without their permission, than anyone else; and to threaten to put the landlord up the chimney for remonstrating with him was certainly an idle boast in this case, as even a champion wrestler would have a tough job to put about a 16-stone individual op a small chimney.

Mr. McCarthy was a desperate customer, to get him to the police station it was considered advisable to secure him with so that no opportunity should offer for him to show his abilities on the way.

When in durance vile he cut up rough, but was ultimately subdued, and in the end was penalised by the Rotherham beach to the tune of 30 shillings and costs in all.