DULL WRESTLING MATCH.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1930, Page 3

DULL WRESTLING MATCH.

CROWD SEND MISSILES INTO BING. NEW ZEALAND MATMAN’S INGLOEIOUS DEBUT WELLINGTON, Last Night. Pennies, crumpled-up programmes, corks, bric-a-brac of various kinds and even a beer bottle found their way into the ring during the wrestling fiasco which occurred to-night at the Town hall. They were contributed as a mark of appreciation by the audience who would have dispatched vegetables too had they been at hand. No match of the same type has ever been staged here before. • The wrestlers were ‘‘Scotty” MacDougall (14.2) and Walter Hogg (14st,). MacDougall won with falls in the third and ' fourth rounds, but could have won as he liked. The match was slow and dull beyond measure and it soon reached .a stage where any satisfactory ending seemed desperately impossible. It was watched by a fair house whose dissatisfaction began to simmer in the first tow minutes of the first round, rapidly becoming vocal and eventually vociferous. Remarks couched in more or less urgent language and calculated to awaken the statuesque grapplors as they lay practically inert on the mat were soon converging on the ring from all parts of the house. / After the first minute or two the audience were noisy and they became increasingly so as the match wore on. Except for a few seconds silence at the end of round one when they were trying to convince themselves that they had been watching wrestling. Frequent countings out gave most of the audience an opportunity of making appropriate noises while the more blase ones whiled away their time with bursts of song and almost everyone made random observations.