WRESTLING
RFCRETTAB.LE PRACTICES
Going on a number of recent preliminaries regrettable habits or" "carrying" an opponent and playing up to the crowd are insidiously creeping into local amateur wrestling. The practice of arranging the result of matches between themselves and turning what should be keen contests of manly skill into burlesque cannot be too strongly condemned in amateur wrestling. Amateurs should go all out to win in the quickest possible time, and nevermind about giving the crowd a "run for its money"; tho professionals are only too well able to look after that side, and tho officials and instructors, when the boys arc matched, should impress on them that they are expected to wrestle genuinely. So-called "showmanship" should be no part of amateur wrestling. Let the boys learn the* science of the game before they add the frills. One amafeur in a bout last Monday apparently forgot that he was so close to the ringside, and ho duly gave notice of the next move on the programme when he whispered, not so quietly, to his mate, "through the ropes," and through the ropes they duly came. It is this type of "wrestling" that should be discouraged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 21
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196WRESTLING Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 21
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