Richard Dixon hipes and cross-buttocks Andrew Carlile in the 12st competition

Once the holder of three championships simultaneously, he has had a comparatively lean time in the past year.

However, the cousin of former champ Alf has continued to notch up wins wherever he travelled to compete in the normal wrestling calendar.

The outside-hipe was his favoured chip in the early rounds when he controlled the lively wriggling of Watchai Noimai before dispatching him.

The exciting young Northumbrian prospect, Scott McKenzie, went much the same route, and that left Harrington facing his friend, relation and fellow Carlisle Club member, Richard Dixon.

Dixon has been steadily growing in confidence as the season has progressed, spending less time thinking what to do and more time going for his chips.

In the first round of the championship he had hiped Andrew Carlile so high that he was able to cross him in mid air so decisively that Carlile was virtually upside down when he landed.

Dixon's attacking policy took him into an early lead in the final when he won the first bout by falling backwards, arching his back and throwing Harrington clockwise over his shoulder.

Dixon attacked again with a hipe in the next hold but Harrington rode it, dropped into an attacking position and twisted to win.

Harrington's main problem was to get his feet disentangled in time to complete the fall.

Only in the deciding fall did Harrington take the initiative rather than reacting to attacks, when he gained a good hold and then flung Dixon forward and round off the right side.

Harrington figured in a second close final when he wrestled up with Richard Fox in the 14 stone category.

He took the lead by borrowing his opponent's favourite chip, the buttock, before the scores were levelled when Fox swung Harrington before inside-clicking him in mid-air.

Fox has tried that move without much joy all season but was spectacularly successful at Alwinton.

Having failed with the buttock, it took sheer persistence for Fox to wear down Harrington's defence and he caught him sweetly to win.

Another Carlisle wrestler Joe Thompson won the Under-16s.

Isaac Hammond came all the way from Milnthorpe Academy to win at Under-13s, but otherwise the local Rothbury Wrestling Club supplied the winners.

Young Joe Hale showed his class in the Under-10s.

Andrew Ord, the 18-year-old 14 stone Champion, came back from a broken arm injured while keeping fit on a bike to win the keenly-contested Under-21s competition.

The Northumbrian powerhouse Richard Younger was in a different league in the All Weights.

Only one event remains of the 2008 Grass Season, the Buttermere Show, on Saturday 25 October.

The committee is reportedly vowing to go ahead with the show, despite nearby Wasdale Head Show having to cancel for the first time in 60 years.