WRESTLING FIXTURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 90, 17 April 1937, Page 22

WRESTLING FIXTURES

April 17.—Australasian amateurs v. combined team, at Palmerston North. April 19.—Amateur Test, New Zealand v. Australia; Stein v. Mclntyre, at Wellington. April 20.—Richards v. Blomfield, at Auckland. . .

prevail against many opponents to whom he has conceded considerable weight.

V. L. Thomas, the Canterbury representative, has been beaten only four times in the course of 63 bouts, with two draws, He started wrestling in 1934 in which year he was the reserve welterweight champion of Canterbury. In 1935 and last year he was the New Zealand champion in his division. E. Morley (Hawke'a Bay) is the only provincial representative in the team. He has figured prominently in New Zealand championships during the past three years. In the North Island championships last year he scored a well-deserved win in the middleweight division over a former champion in J. McDonald (Auckland). In the Dominion tournament he won by straight falls in the first two rounds. NOTED CAMPAIGNERS. Leo Nolan, with R. W. Hutcheson, has been recognised as one of the cleverest and most capable wrestlers that New Zealand has produced. In addition to his outstanding Wellington record he has secured the following New Zealand honours:—l 932, runnerup for the New Zealand bantamweight title; 1933 and 1934, New Zealand bantamweight champion; 1935, flyweight and bantarmveight champion; 1936, New Zealand lightweight champion. Altogether Nolan has had the re-