STRONG TEAM
AMATEUR WRESTLERS
AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS
This year, for the first time, NewZealand will" be visited by a team of amateur wrestlers representing the Australian Amateur Boxing and Wrestling Union. Particulars of the team received by the Dominion Wrestling Union today indicate that the tourists will be an exceptionally strong combination and will provide an excellent test for New Zealand wrestlers aspiring to a trip to the Empire Games at Sydney in a year's time, or to the Olympic Games at Tokio in 1040. The following will comprise the visiting team:— Bst 61b Class. —A. Parsons (Queensland), bantam champion in 1934. Bst 111b Class.—E. Purcell (Victoria), Australian champion in 1935; Australian National Games champion in 193G; and State champion in 1935-36. 9st 81b Class.—R. Purchase (New South Wales), State champion in 1936. lOst 51b Class.—R. Hurley (Queensland), runner-up in the Australian championships in 1935; State champion 1927-28, 1929-30, 1934, 1935, 1936. list 41b Class—W. J.. Sinclair (Victoria), Australian lightweight champion in 1929; State welter champion in 1936. 12st 61b Class.—J. Jamieson (Queensland), runner-up in the Australian championships in 1933-35, and the Australian National Games in 1936; State champion, 1934, 1935, 1936. 13st 91b Class—F. Gardiner (Victoria), Victorian police champion and State champion in 1936. Heavyweight.—J. Knight (New South Wales), British Empire champion in 1934; Australian champion in 1933; runner-up in the Australian championships in 1935; State champion 1933-35. The team will be accompanied by Mr. N. McAulay (Queensland) as trainer, Mr. McAulay being a former State boxing and wrestling champion, and by Mr. T. Hindi as manager. Mr. Hinch is treasurer of the' Australian Union and an executive officer and life member of the Queensland Union. The team is due to arrive at Auckland by the Wanganella on March 31 and will leave Auckland on the return trip by the Awatea in April. Its itinerary includes a Test match against New Zealand at Wellington on April 19. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 61, 13 March 1937, Page 11
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317STRONG TEAM Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 61, 13 March 1937, Page 11
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