CONTEST FOR DUNEDIN
Maracci Gardini, the Italian-Ameri-can heavy-weight wrestler, will arrive in Dunedin to-night, and will work out at Tom Harris’s gymnasium at 8 o’clock. Clarence Eklund, the world's light heavy-weight champion, who has ir. t with great success in New Zealand, will arrive to-morrow, and will be met. by t o pipers, who will play him to his hotel. Gardini and Eklund will grapple with each other at the Drill Hall on Saturday evening next, and for thrills there are few sports to surpass the highlyspectacular'mat game., Eklund and Gardini are both top-notch performers and both are capable of giving the public a fine exhibition during the eight ten-minute rounds. Eklund is one of the greatest grapplers in th© world, and has introduced some remarkable holds to the game, while Gardini is also a yerv strong wrestler. The public should have enough sensations on Saturday night to make them eager for the second of these contests, which is to be a' ’ged next month. Amateur preliminaries will precede the main bout, and Farmer Vance will also demonstrate the various holds to thepublic. He is a star wrestler, and his display should be an entertainment in itself.
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 4
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