Wrestling ban deplored
NZPA-AAP Melbourne Victorian wrestling officials have slammed the banning of the national coach, Sam Parker, as an attack on Victorian wrestling. “The penalties handed out are just totally out of proportion with the event,” said the secretary of the Victorian Wrestling Association, Brian Hodgson. “The whole thing is obviously an attack on Victorian
wrestling.” Parker, the State director of the V.W.A., was banned for five years by the Australian Wrestling Union after it found him guilty of wagering on a bout during the national championships in June. A meeting of the Victorian association in Melbourne has deferred taking action over the row, pending legal advice, after the V.A.W. asked the association to ban Parker.
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Press, 10 January 1986, Page 28
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