WRESTLING
IKE ROBIN AND TOA KAHA I A CONTEST FOR HASTINGS Now that the wrestling season has opened in New Zealand, Hawke’s Bay enthusiasts will be wondering what will be the opening contest arranged by the Hawke’s Bay Wrestling Association, and it will be noted with a good deal of pleasure that the present holder of the open title for Australasia, Ike Robin, the very popular local wrestler, will figure in the first contest to be billed this year. Robin is to meet Toa Kaha, better known perhaps, as Georg© Gardiner, of Auckland, on. Thursday, July 21. Gardiner arrives in Hastings to-night and will! commence training immediately and will give exhibitions from time to time in the Drill Hall, Hastings. He has no actual performances to his credit, but he has trained with all the American wrestlers, and is considered to be a tip-top matman. This will be his first professional contest. He is well, known in Rugby League circles, and is a New Zealand representative in that code. As Robin is to wrestle in Wellington during the week following this contest, he will be watched with keen interest. He has already been training very assiduously and has brought his weight down considerably. Further details of the contest will be ■given later.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 175, 9 July 1932, Page 9
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212WRESTLING Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 175, 9 July 1932, Page 9
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