WRESTLERS FOR AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 9

WRESTLERS FOR AUCKLAND.

INTERNATIONAL CONTESTS.

A REVIVAL OF THE SPORT.

There is every indication that Auckland will shortly experience a wrestling revival, and that some of the world's beet grapplers will be seen in a local ring.

Negotiations between the New Zealand Wrestling Association and Stadiums, Ltd., Australia, which have been in progress for some weeks, have now reached a definite stage, and it is the intention of the Dominion boclv to stage a series of international contests at Auckland, featuring a number of the widely-known mat men who have been _•'.nilling Australian

' i;- during the ves en t season, "mil arrangements •ive not yet been ■ "inpleted, but it is rntieipated that the l'r«t of the grapplers, several of whom will be re- ; in ning to America, find early next month. Tn a. letter to Mr. C. 15. McCarthy,

the secretary of the N.Z. Wrestling Association, Henry Irslinger, who passed through Auckland on his way to Australia <'i. couple of months ago, says that he would welcome matches in the Dominion. Irslinger beat Ted Thve, middle-weight champion of the world, and, among others, earned the decision over .Tohn Kilonis, tho (Jreek champion, and Gania, the well-performed Indian.