WRESTLING PROMOTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 14

WRESTLING PROMOTER.

TED THYE ARRIVES

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 1. Regarded up to three years ago, when be retired from the ring, ns one of the cleverest wrestlers in the world, and now a leading promoter of wrestling in the United States, Ted Thye arrived to-day from Vancouver. He said it was more or less a holiday visit and that he would later go to Australia and thence to India, probably taking with him Ed. ‘'Stranger Lewis. Thye was met in Auckland today by AValter Miller, “agent” for the American wrestlers in the Dominion. “You are reputed to lie a millionaire ” an interviewer remarked. Thve lauedicd. “The worst of those stones,’ he °said. “is that one is expected to live up’ to them—and I can’t.” Asked about tlic stories told in JNetv Zealand of percentages from the wrestlers’ earnings being sent to their clubs in America, Thye said thwt wrestlers had to have managers, who had to get something out of it. They were the men who made the _ wrestling game. New Zealand, he said, had a good organisation. The Dominion Union airanged the matches and there were no petty jealousies. NEW ORGANISATION. WALKER GOES INTO TRAINING. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, June 1. From inquiries made by a Post representative following the recent announcement that George AYalker bad gone into training, it is learned that an independent team of wrestlers is on its way to the Dominion by the Monerey, due at Auckland on June 11th, to wrestle under the control of a new promoting organisation. The organisation is called the Dominion Athletic Club and has been formed to handle the importation of men and the promotion of bouts which are to be in the bands of the New Zealand AVrestling and Athletic Club, which has branches in AVellington and other important “if is' stated that Walker' will be wrestling under the now control and that the first batch of men coming inrlude Steve Savage, who made a short visit to the order of the Dominion AVrestling Union hist ycai.