Suspended Man Seeks Apology
•‘The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON. New Zealand’s best-known amateur wrestler, R. Butts, will not compete again as an amateur till he receives an apology
from the New Zealand Amateur Wrestling Union. Butts, captain of the New Zealand team which tour-
ed India in 1964, has been suspended by the union He said yesterday that he understood he had been suspended for writing wrestling articles for a national sporting magazine.
Butts said the union had taken a “dictatorial attitude” toward him, and he did not feel he could wrestle again as an amateur till it had apologised to him.
The union had accused him of bad sportsmanship and of writing an article which, in fact, he had not written. He had written other articles at a time when he was a publicity officer for the sport, and had done this with a view to helping it. Butts, who has been coaching wrestlers since his suspension, said he might turn professional.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31362, 6 May 1967, Page 15
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