WRESTLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 207, 14 June 1933, Page 2

WRESTLING.

A QUESTION OF TERMS. Writing to the Sporting Editor of the “Guardian,” Mr S. CunliHe complains of the multiplicity of terms used in the report of the wrestling bout between “Whiskers” Blake anil Jack Patterson in Ashburton on Saturday night, and considers that the ten holds described in the first round are foreign to the Ashburton public. He considers that only two holds were really in evidence, one that was not fully applied and another by which one of the contestants could have secured a fall hut which lie relinquished for no apparent reason. The writer also complains of the insincerity of the wrestlers in the greater part of the bout, instanciVig several throws that were witnessed and which he declares were not genuine hut “staged” for the benefit of the onlookers.

In reply it may be stated that the terms used in the report of the contest are in use wherever wrestling under modern conditions is encountered. Wrestling to-day is vastly different from the wrestling of the past. Old

stylos have given way to new. there has bepn an all-round amalgamation of styles and in the process rules and terms necessarily had to undergo revision. With the entry into the field, so far as New Zealand is concerned, of a large number of foreign exponents of the art, a great many new terms have been given to patrons of the sport, and it is natural that many Ashburton people found some of them strange to the eye when they appeared in the report. 1 The terms used, are, for all that, correct.