 | Boxing - 1812 - 390 pages
...Battles on the Stage, as agreed to by several gentlemen at Mr. Broughtou's, August 29, 1748*; • I. That a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the stage ; and, on every fresh set-to after a fall, or being parted from the rails, each second is... | |
 | Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 pages
...Hanway- j BROIGHTON s RULES. street, Oxford-street, now stand;, opened it on March the 10th, 1743, ; 1. THAT a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the stage; with the pubjoined advertisement in the Daily d<ltfrti:fr; from prints j and every fresh... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 844 pages
...England, end with him commences the first scientific era of pugilism. He propounded some rules for tho regulation of the ring, and these remained in authority...altered. Rule 1 is, That a square of a yard be chalked in thi middle of a stage, and th:it in every fresh set to after a fall, the seconds are to bring thtir... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 884 pages
...pugilism. He propounded some rules for the ring, which remained in authority till 1838. Bule 1 was, That a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of...that, in every fresh set-to after a fall, the seconds were to bring their men to the side of the square, and to place them opposite each other; and until... | |
 | R. G. Allanson-Winn - Boxing - 1897 - 428 pages
...meetings of the Pugilistic Association more than one hundred years later. BROUGIITON'S RULES. " I. That a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the stage ; and that at every fresh set-to after a fall, or being parted from the rails, each second... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1902 - 996 pages
...which remained in authority till 1838, or nearly a century. They are now spoken of as the 'old rules.' Rule 1 is, that a square of a yard be chalked in the...the side of the square, and to place them opposite euch other; and until this is done, it is not lawful for one to strike the other. Rule 2. that if either... | |
 | Henry Downes Miles - Boxing - 1906 - 612 pages
...New Rules of the Ring" superseded Broughton's. We here give the original — BROUGHTON'S RULES. 1. That a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the stage ; and every fresh set-to after a fall, or being parted from the rails, each second is to... | |
 | Ralph Nevill - Boxing - 1910 - 364 pages
...regulations dealing with fighting or boxing. These rules, here briefly condensed, were as follows : I. That a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the boxing stage, and on every set-to after a fall or being parted each second should place his man... | |
 | Bohun Lynch - Boxing - 1914 - 292 pages
...regulation of the Amphitheatre, approved of by the Gentlemen, and agreed to by the Pugilists." " 1. That a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the stage ; and every fresh set-to after a fall, or being parted from the rails, each second is to... | |
 | Bohun Lynch - Boxing - 1922 - 290 pages
...Broughton's Amphitheatre, Tottenham Court Road, August, i 6th, 1743." These Rules were as follows: — I. — That a square of a Yard be chalked in the middle of the xxiv Stage; and on each fresh set-to after a fall, or being from the rails, each Second is to bring... | |
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Pugilists." 1. That a square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the stage ; and every fresh set-to after a fall, or being parted from the rails, each second is to bring his man to the side of the square, and place him opposite to the other, and till... 
