DULL BEYOND MEASURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 8

DULL BEYOND MEASURE.

WRESTLING IN WELUN#

CROWD SHOWS DISGUST.

McDOUGALL BEATS HOGG. ?

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Mouday

Pennies, crumpled programmes, corfe odds and ends of various kinds, • even a beer bottle, found. into the ring during, a in the Wellington Town Hall :f&?\ ing.. Tha articles were :.'tl»™* jjj members of the audience, , f^ 1 ; V registered their disapproval ot-an «„ bition, the type of which .lms-nev? before been staged Iα Wefflngg:;^ ■The wrestlers were .' 3Co^V_, : : u it Dougall, 14st 21b and Walter Hogg, I s McDougall won with falls i?«g s and fourth rounds. The match * slow and dull beyond- measure, an soon reached a stage where--anj.j f factory ending seemed possible. . . ftir The contest was. watched ') r ' l ; {0 house whose dissatisfaction : oe a -i simmer in the first fcw■minutes -oi first round. The came vocal. Eventually couched in more or less • tl!9 guage, and calculated to awawn statuesque -grnpplers as they l y :: tically inert on the. mat,: weie , ■ shouted from all parts" ol the After the iirst minute in . audience was noisy. It oec v α-eaeingly noisy as the- tie except for a few seconds silence _a. end of the first round, tors were trying, to, convince that they had been watclnng .inteie wrestling. Frequent "Com^ • .'. gave most of the audience-an opFtunity of making noises Some in- bursts of song and others :mna»^. ? dom observations. , ■■.-';.•"■;._ „