WRESTLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 139, 15 June 1938, Page 23

WRESTLING.

MEEHAN - MEETS FRALEY. SATI'RDAY XI(!JIT'S MATCH. 1 'at Mcehnn. t"no Canadian wrestler, has met tlu> best dt th<; opposition available (lining the time }i«? lias been in New Zealand. i ii<-1 in i i njr Moen. Hlomtield, Steele ami I'at Kraley. He is to have, a return bout with Kraley at the Auckland Town Hall 011 Saturday Kraley's win was secured by means of his controversial "bark-breaker"' hold and apart from tha* somewhat lucky break for Fraley the men have proved to be unusually well matched. 1 he Canadian is at his best wltenever he lias been able to confine the struggle to more or less orthodox wrestling. It is in such circumstances that Meehan reveals the sound training he received before he joined the professional ranks, when he held the Canadian amateur heavy-weight title for two years in succession. He prefers to emphasise the scientific rather than the more rugged side of wrestling, but Meehan becomes a force which cannot be lightly regarded if "roughing up" tactics are introduced. He proved that emphatically in his match with Blomfield on Monday and in this bout with Frakv le is likely to be called on to display all he ha.<*.