ZORRO DEFEATS FAIETA IN DISAPPOINTING BOUT

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 14

ZORRO DEFEATS FAIETA IN DISAPPOINTING BOUT

WRESTLING

A recital at which the orchestra gets no further than the muted mutterings of the tuning process would hardly find favour with the average concert-goer, and by the same token last night’s meeting of two of the most colourful of wrestlers, Ed Faieta and The Great Zorro, was disappointing for the crowded house at the Civic Theatre. In his own right, each of the men has something to offer the wrestling public, but they did not team well. Perhaps the cast in the weekly wrestling drama is too small for two villains.

Only for brief moments were there the flurries of activity expected of the occasion, and there were none of the novel twists, if that term can be used, for which the wrestling spectator has an insatiable appetite. No wonder Zorro paced restlessly up and down between rounds, like the expectant father of the vaudeville sketches. The first pound held nothing more than a little innocent hair-pulling, and the second began with what must surely rank as one of the unloveliest waltzes of all time. But Faieta came back for more, only to find he had not been pencilled in on Zorro’s programme. Zorro therefore threw him out of the ring. Relenting, he hauled Faieta back over the top rope, but after another look decided his first impression was correct, and threw him out of the ring again. This feminine inability to make a decision irritated Faieta, who resumed his week-old struggle for the radio announcer’s table. So far, in four sharp engagements, the announcer is undefeated. But Faieta paraded proudly along the walk on the auditorium side of the ring, like an outsize bathing beauty. The exchange of jolts in the third round was as formal as the leaving of visiting chrds. Certainly each blow invited a return as well as expressing a clear intention to come again. The

sound and the fury reached reco nisable heights in the fourth. wh< all three principals were outside fl ring, and Zorro dumped Faie squarely on the civic organ. Faie 1 made a rapid examination of his pe son but failing to find the lost choi dumped Zorro on the same spot. Bi even in these passages they lacked fl usual fluency. The fifth round came and wei almost unnoticed, the excitement b ing insufficient to rouse the guardii of the law dozing quietly by the rim side. But in the sixth Zorro strut some blows, dumped Faieta, admii istered throat drops on the lavii scale possible only in a welfare stat and took a fall. The crowd roared i loudly as if Vincent had scored ai other try, but. Faieta looked as wo ried and puzzled as a New Zealar selector. The seventh was without mut colour, and there was a brief frenzy < activity in the eighth. But it all endt when Faieta tackled the referee (N A. McGregor) and Zorro tackle Faieta. The referee became the me in a human sandwich of extraordii ary proportions, and so the polk quietly moved in and the lights wei down. Not before time. AMATEUR BOUTS Amateur wrestling bouts at the Civ Theatre last evening resulted:— A. Singer, 7st (Health and Strength beat B Jeram, 6st 111 b (Toe H. Lii wood), by two falls; C. O’Brien, Bst 6 (Crichton Cobbers), beat I. Pitt. Bst 13 (Crichton Cobbers), on points, no fall C. Benbow, list 41b (Crichton Cobbers beat J. Fisher, list 111 b (Burnham), to one fall to nil; P. Moore, Bst 21b (T< H, Linwood), beat J. Genet, Bst 4 (Health and Strength), by two falls ' nil; B. Roberts, list (Toe H, Linwood drew with F. Wootton, list 51b (Bun ham), no falls.