BOY WRESTLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 196, 20 August 1938, Page 11

BOY WRESTLERS.

ORPHANS IN BOUTS.

WOMEN COMPLAIN.

"IT IS DISGRACEFUL."

MELBOURNE, August 9.

The National Council of Women it " u "a n n erred and shocked" because the West Melbourne Stadium has promoted wrestling bouts between children. At an executive meeting the women ' will probably take steps to prevent further juvenile bouts. Four boys, aged between eight and ten, from St. Augustine's Orphanage, Geelong, wrestled before a record crowd ." as a preliminary bout. "The appearance of the boys was pitiful in the extreme," said Mrs. L Moss, president of the National Council of Women. -rr • C-^htC "It is disgraceful that children ehoeld - be encouraged to fight. People wfc®"~ listened-in told me all about it. We an shocked and annoyed. "Some said, It was only wrestling, * but wrestling is the next thing to boxing. 3 "Apart from being allowed to fipht, the boys should never have been t a ken into an atmosphere such as the ' Stadium. It is certainly no place for ~J children. Those responsible should ashamed of themselves." The superintendent of the orphanage " (Brother Doyle) said that public by boys would not be regular. "Personally, I fail to see how any great harm can come to them.

"Money thrown into the ring after the bouts amounted to £5.

"This will be added to the orphanage building fund."