WRESTLING.
AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL BOUTS. To have two nights in succession at wrestling in our city is unusual and is occasioned by the New Zealand amateur championships, which are to be decided early next month, requiring that tho local wrestling authorities should have their team ready for action as soon as the actual dates are fixed. As the big professional contest between Hal Rumborg, so far undefeated in New Zealand, and Jake ‘Patterson was practically arranged, it was decided to make tho big engagement a redletter night by having the finals of tho amateur championships as preliminaries. The big bout is arranged for Tuesday night at the Opera House. The programmes as they now stand are that on Monday the heats and semi-finals of tho amateur championships will be contested in every class, the entertainment lasting as long as tho eliminations are necessary. It is expected that there will be a record number of entries from not only members of the three affiliated clubs, but also from Feilding, Apiti, Rongotea and Foxton, and perhaps Pahiatua. On Tuesday night the finals of the championships and tho eight 10-minut_es round bout botween tho two really big men in the ring to-day, Hal Rumberg and Jake Patterson, each of whom weighs over 16 stone, will be. staged. The very low charge of one shilling for admission to the ringsido on the Monday should make the all-amateur night a very successful entertainment and the same prices that have attracted big houses this season are to bo again charged for tho Tuesday night’s performance. The box plans for the second night only will be opened at the Central Booking Office on Saturday next. The report published in, some quarters to the effect that the wrestler Gus Sonnenburg had only a few months to live appears to have been grossly exaggerated. Advice has been received by mail from San Francisco that Sonnenburg was preparing for
* in America at the end of f e i first bout was to be with Abe Kaplan ?nd after that he was hoping to wrestle Jim Browning (says an exchange).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 20 September 1933, Page 4
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349WRESTLING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 20 September 1933, Page 4
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