Millard County Chronicle | 1932-02-04 | Page 3 | Early Pugilism

early pugilism pugilistic practice or sport of fight ing with the fists la Is first mentioned in literature in the twenty third book of the iliad another full description Is in vergil s aeneid although fist fighting was supposed by the greefs of the classic period to have been a feature of the mythological games at olympia it was not actually intro deuced into the historic olympic con tests until the twenty third olympiad after the re establishment of the fa games in about B C Ono masto mastos was the first olympic vie tor