WRESTLING

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1937, Page 8

WRESTLING

THE MONEY ASPECTS AUCKLAND, June 2. Regarded up to three years ago, when he retired from the ring, as one of the cleverest wrestlers in the world, and now a leading promoter of wrestling in the United States, Ted Thye arrived in Auckland to-day by the Aorangi. He said he was more or less on a holiday, thence to India, probably taking with him Ed. "Strangler’’ Lewis. . .. Thye was met in Auckland to-day by Walter Miller "agent” for the American wrestlers in th e Dominion. "You are reputed to be a millionaire,” the interviewer said. Thye laughed. "The worst of those stories,” he said, "is one is expected to live up to them —and I can’t.” Asked about the stories told in New Zealand of percentages from wrestlers’ earnings being sent to their clubs in America, Thye said that wrestlers had to have managers, who had to get something out of it. They were the men who made the wrestling game. New Zealand, he said, had a good Organisation, The association arranged th 6 matches and ther e were no petty jealousies.