WRESTLING
The Austrian wrestler, Fred Ebert, who is to meet George Walker at the Town Hall ou Monday night, has had over COO professional contests. He first came into prominence as an amateur- when a student at the eHidclbcrg University, and in 1920 won the amateur heavyweight championship of the world at the Olympic Games. He has wrestled in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Jugo-Slavia, Belgium, France, Turkey, England, United States, South America, India, Japan, and Australia. In Constantinople he won a fall from Zybesko and in Berlin met the champion of the world, Shikafc. The contest lasted an hour and a half without breaks, Shikat finally winning with a crutch hold. Ebert is a wrestler of great strength, and he states that he now feels that he has become thoroughly acclimatised in this country. For Monday night's contest he will be very fit and is confident that he will break Walker's sequence of wins.
Mr. Tom Wray, chief instructor1 at the famous Farmer Burns .School of Wrestling, U.S.A., arrives by the midday train today. Mr. Wray is one of the several wrestlers who arrived by the Aorangi a few days ago with Tom Alley, and will be seen in action at o later date in Wellington and other centres. After the training exhibitions . given. by Fred Ebcrfc at the Central Fire Station this evening at 8 o'clock, Tom Wray will give demonstrations of various holds. Last night over 200 were present to witness Ebert in his training bouts. ."Visitors are cordially, inTited to be present this evening.
WRESTLING
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 7
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