INDOOR ATHLETICS.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1922, Page 11

INDOOR ATHLETICS.

! On. Monday night there ■will: be presented to a Wellington audience ail; athletic entertainment. of a distinctly .novel1 character, comprising / wood-chopping, wrestling, weight-lifting, lazy-stick -poll,-;, ing and.other, features. , The chief at-' traction ■will be a wood-chopping contest, for a purse .of £100, best two out'of' three in three chops with blocks of 12in, 15in, and 16in blocks.- . This will be .between Dave Pretty; the: champion .axeman' off ■ the w6rld (who v stands 6ft 6^in in his stockings),l and „G; T^l Why'te,j the Tasmahian champion,, -who • makes up for wjiat he lacks in height in weight arid staminh. The'chief wrestling bout will'be a' ,i"v: jitsu match between i Harry Sandow, (New Zealand champion). and Noel Naughton (champion' of Tasmania), for a purse of £50. ; Another distinct novelty will be a'Chinese wrestling match' between two of the champions of the Far Emt, whose appearance has been sanctioned by'the.Chinese Consul. ' Open competitions in wrestling,' weight-lifting,- and lazy-stick -pulling' have been added to the programme, for local amateurs, the entries for which close nt'Nod Perry1* to-night. The box plan i* now open at Perry's.