PUBLIC BOXING AND WRESTLING

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 219, 12 August 1930, Page 4

PUBLIC BOXING AND WRESTLING

(To the Editor.) Sir, —“Modern’s” knowledge of boxing and wrestling is pitifully crude; he doesn’t seem to know enough to knock a cup out of a saucer. The names of a lew local boxing and wrestling addicts who belong to the aristocracy of brains was merely requested, and “Modern” evades my petition with a rawness that is truly lamentable. He writes: 1 ‘To-day the call is for the man of strength and grit”—he, of course, has heard he then gives a displav of evasiveness that’s as strong and gritty as a blanc-mange. (It’s a fairly safe surmise that “Modem” coula he pushed under a door without disturbing his buttons.) “Modem” asserts that “many of our best wrestlers are school teachers” belonging, he could have added, t-o the U.S.A. And apparently the fruits of their teaching are the Black Bottom, jazz, nigger music and an appalling nasal'infliction. “Modern” concludes by stating that the wrestlers “can always tap the mat when they desire to give in.” It is to be noted that “Scotty” McDougall did his tapping on a second’s chin at Auckland; and the victim of “Strangler” Lewis at Sydney on Saturday night did his tapping with every bit of himself at once, prior to being “removed unconscious.” —I am, etc., 1 ‘PATERFAMILIAS.’ ’