WRESTLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 237, 6 October 1932, Page 18

WRESTLING.

KARASICK AND MAMOS. KEEN MATCH ANTICIPATED. Two of the best wrestlers at present in New Zealand, Al Karasick and Harry Mamos, will be the principals in the headliner of the programme which the Auckland Wrestling Association will stage in the Town Hall on Saturday evening next. The match, it is expected, will be one of the finest witnessed locally this season; . Karasick and. Mamos- are excellently matched. Both have had long ■experience in the game, although in this respect the advantage is with Karasick. Both are also polished performers, with; a knowledge of every hold and ' counter •worth knowing. When the pair met at Hamilton earlier in the season they broke even, and it has yet to be decided who is the better man. With the sea-1 son drawing to a close both contestants will be anxious to take the honours.

One of the few men to score a win over George Walker in New Zealand, Karasick has long been famed for his crushing headlocks. Possessed of unusually strong arms he has concentrated in these holds since he first took up the game, and for yeai'S has enjoyed the title of Hea4lock Al. The Russian, who landed in America as dancing partner to the late Anna Pavlova, and later forsook the stage for the mat, has also built up a fine defence for the headlocks, with which he himself is such an expert, and the manner in which he can free himself by a jerk of his head, is amazing. He is also a fiistclass showman, and the "colour ,, which he always infuses into his wrestling has won him popularity in many parts of the world.

Mamos is a Greek, and has appropriately been called the Dr. Jekyell and Mr. Hyde of the wrestling mat. Outside the ring he is unusually quiet; in fact, to many he appears to be shy. When he is in the ring it is an entirely different story.

Wrestling, he says, is his living, and if he has to become rough to win he has no objection to doing so. ~ Manioe' polished style rerninds 'one of George Kotsonaros, who made so his an Impression in the few matches he had in New Zealand a year or so ago. It is Mamos' hope that on Saturday he will be able to show Auckland wrestling fans a hold that has not previously been demonstrated here. When Mamos was in Australia he was only once beaten in seventeen matches, and that defeat was chalked up to the credit of Karasick. The Greek, however, feels that he. should never have been beaten. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS. The annual provincial amateur championships will be held ut Scots Hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings next week under the control of the Auckland \Yrestling Association. Large entries have been received, and the tourney should be very successful. CARNIVAL AT TAKAPUNA. A wrestling carnival will be held at the Gaiety Theatre, Tukapuna, this evening. A number of Auckland's leading amateurs will be participating. WAIKATO CHAMPIONSHIPS. Arrangements for the forthcoming Waikato amateur championship wrestling tournament to be held at Hamilton on October 14 and 15 were discussed at a meeting of the Waikato Wrestling Association last evening. It was decided to recommend to the New Zealand Wrestling Union that submission falls should be allowed in amateur championship tournaments. WALKER BEATS DEMETRAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, this day. A professional wrestling bout between George Walker, New Zealand, 13.2, British Empire champion, and Harry Demetral, America, 13.10, drew a packed house, but produced a tamer display than was anticipated. It went the full eight rounds, for Walker to win with the only fall of the bout, obtained by a body press following a series of head throws which rendered his opponent groggy.