SENSATIONAL WRESTLING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 252, 19 September 1930, Page 8

SENSATIONAL WRESTLING.

Bedlam was loose in Sydney Stadium in the now historic encounter between led Thye, who is to meet Scotty McDougall at Palmerston North on Thursday, and Billy Edwards. Words of excitement were broadcast over the air by the announcer: “Oh, oh! I say. Something terrible bias happened. The referee has been laid out. My word, this crowd is going mad. The men were tearing into each other on the mat when a foot darted out and kicked Tom Banner in the solar plexus. He’s lying helpless on the mat. The seconds crowd round tho referee, and the wrestlers are still going hammer and tongs. They help Banner from the ring. The wrestlers have been pulled apart. The crowd is delirious. Thye is leaving the ring, but Edwards is raving and refuses to leave. The crowd won’t leave either. It looks like a riot. Something is going to happon. Thye has gone to the dressing-room. Must be under the shower now. No, wait on, he’s coming back. Thye’s coming back. He’s back. They haven’t got a referee. Yes, they have. Tom Lurich is climbing through the ropes. He’s going to referee. They’re at each other again. Oh. my, what a sensation !” ... Former lightweight champion of the world, Thye is one of those .who laid the foundation of the popularity of the sport in Australia. £le has always attracted huge crowds, and there has never been a disappointment. He is the best wrestler, barring Pesek, who has ever come to New Zealand, and ho will only be seen in four contests in the Dominion’. McDougall, who has been chosen to meet the fire-eating American at the Opera House, is a stone and a-haif heavier. He will need it and all his magnificent strength to counteract the fierce attack of Thye. It will be a memorable battle, and one, it is confidently anticipated, that will put the sport of wrestling on a firm footing in Palmerston North. The preliminary programme is now being drawn up and amateurs desiring bout 3 are requested to communicate with the secretary.