WRESTLING FAVOURITES BACK.
Tomorrow night at \ the ...Wellington Show Stadium two-proven favourites with New Zealand wrestling enthusiasts willmeetin a heavyweight. bout. They ate George Walker, claimant of the British Empirev- title, and Alec ("Whiskers") Lundyn, who first wrestled in the Dominion in. 1931. Born and brought up ;in Estonia,' Lundyn lived in an atmosphere of athletics', particularly wrestling, that small country having produced some of the greatest wrestlers the world has known, including Hackenschmidt It was this early environment that • led "Whiskers" on to the path which resulted in: his building up an outstanding record embracing matches in practically every civilised country. Little need be said about Walker, as everyone knows and appreciates his wrestling, in which he is always out to win, arid generally does. There will be amateur preliminaries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 5
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131WRESTLING FAVOURITES BACK. Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 5
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