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A Tennessee Olympic
June 18, 1866 issue

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A letter printed in the Louisville journal, full at once of knightly emotion and grammatical solecisms, reciting the splendors of a tournament held at Clarksville, Tennessee, as aforesaid, on the day aforesaid, in the course of which seventeen knights tilted for crowns and nosegays. It was a sort of militia muster, after the fashion of the Middle Ages, a highly refined, and romantic kind of sham-fight, bearing about the same relation to the tournament which people read of that a modern circus or hippotheatron bears to the Field of Cloth of Gold.

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OLYMPICS; SPORTS tournaments; MIDDLE Ages; LOUISVILLE (Periodical); CLARKSVILLE (Tenn.); TENNESSEE; UNITED States
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