BIG WRESTLING BOUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 10

BIG WRESTLING BOUT.

AT TOWN HALL TO-NIGHT.

IKE EOBIX V. S. ZXBSZKO.

Since the eppearanee of Hackensrhmiat many years ago. there has been no wresfef in Anckland of eqnal fame to Stanlßtaa Zybszko. who has fienred as world's rtum. pion in America. Britahi. and the Continest almost continuously for the past ten jesn or more. Though well past the age at irhidi most wrestlers retire, he engaged in t series of bouts in America recently ud retained his championship title. Now on the way to Australia, he reached Auckland t> day. and this evening will appear at &5 Town Hall ajrainst rh" New Zealand hearj« ■weicht champion. Ike Robin, of Hante'l Bay.

When in the of trim. Zybszko is just on 17 stone in weight, and Robin goes » few pounds heavier. Besides being of colossal proportions, both are immensely powerful men. so That their meetha; though all the advantage of eiperiea* will be with Zybszko. is being antiapattJ with unusual interest by enthusiasts.

Whether the match between them mil be of long or* short duration is impossible i* an-ticipare. but the New Zealand Wrestling Association is arranging for Two or tnrel amateur preliminaries and an eiMbiiion of jiu-jirsv to be staged in the event of the three bouts between tie being aii usually brief.