WRESTLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 190, 25 May 1934, Page 2

WRESTLING.

MEYER v. MICHOT. / " . HASTINGS, May 24. The wrestling - season at Hastings opened with a strenuous match between Meyer and Michot, the bout ending in a draw after each had gained a fall. The fourth round had been in progress for two minutes when Michot submitted to a variation of the hammerlock, Meyer effectively using a leg as a lever. In the seventh round Michot seeured a fall with a dump following a series of headlocks. CONTEST IN ASHBURTON. The Ashburton Wrestling Association has announced its first professional match of this season. This Association has been very active since the beginning of March, when the names of the visiting wrestlers were cabled from America, and it is the desire that all bouts will be between the best wrestlers of the visiting team. It is held in high favour by* the New Zealand Wrestling Association as the most progressive of the associations outside' the four main .centres. These factors have weighed heavily in Ashburton's favour and the New Zealand Association has arranged that two good wrestlers will open the 1934 season next Tuesday night, at His Majesty's Theatre. The bout will be between Dr. Fred Meyer and Bex Bolt, both leading wrestlers in America. Meyer has had several bouts already and in his first he defeated the- Frenchman, Michot, and as recently as last Monday night ho secured a decisive win against the famous Chinese, Wong Buck Cheong, in Auckland. He is a real hard performer and has many spectacular holds. His American performances include a victory over Stan Pinto, and also a draw "with the ex-champion of the j world, Gus Sonnenberg. • {

Rex Bolt is known as the Texan Whirlwind, and was once a Texas cowboy. As he only arrived in New Zea<land last Friday, he has not had an opportunity of performing ja this country, but Harry Mamos made several praiseworthy remarks about his prowess as a wrestler whilst talking to several members of the Ashburton Association last week when he passed through Ashburton by train on his way to Dunedin. . Four excellent amateur bouts will precede the main match. Light-weights include J. G. Frass (9st 31b) v. B. J. Borton (9st 71b), and W. Todd (9st 71b) v. F. T. Brooks (9st 12lb); middleweights, C. A. Voice (list 31b) v. I. Fahey (list 41b), and J. C. Scott (list) v. F. A. Lloyd (list). •; Box plans opened at Mr J. McElhinney's tobacconist shop to-day.