The wrestling career of Horace Chenery was a relatively short one but it did include selection for the 1908 London Olympics. Competing in the freestyle middleweight competition, Chenery was beaten in the first round by the eventual champion, and his keen rival, Stanley Bacon. Their rivalry started in 1907 when Bacon beat Chenery in the freestyle final at the Essex County Athletics Championship meeting at Chelmsford. Less than five months after the Olympics, it was Bacon, again, who prevented Chenery from capturing the biggest prize of his career when the Olympic champion beat him in the middleweight final at the annual German Gymnastic Society Championship. Like many of the 1908 British wrestlers, Chenery was a policeman, and he served with the London Metropolitan Police.
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