GUIDE TO THE MAT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 228, 23 June 1936, Page 6

GUIDE TO THE MAT

Exposition of Wrestling Technique

For a long time supporters of wrestling, particularly the fireside “fans,” who enjoy the grappling contests through the mediums of radio and press, have felt the lack of any clear, comprehensive and compact manual of the principal wrestling holds—and, of course, the special spectacular holds jji which the leading matmen specialise. This want has been very adequately filled by a little pocket volume entitled "The New Zealand Sporting Life Guide to Wrestling,” and published bv National Magazines, Ltd. This guide-book sets out some -15 plates and detailed descriptions of practically all the more peculiar and punishing knots into which one wrestler can tie another, and care has clearly been taken to make both pictures and text as lucid as poshible. The holds are demonstrated by Walter Miller, Paul Boesch arid Joe Woods, three noted exponents of the art. There is a foreword by Mr. J. D. Willischairman of the Wrestling Union management committee. A great many photographs of prominent wrestlers of the present and the past in this country figure in the volume, as well as an interesting page of “feats of strength and skill." The sole feature missing is a page of directions, telling beginners how to tin tangle themselves.