WRESTLING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 8

WRESTLING.

TEAM FOR COMING SEASON. According to Mr Walter Miller, the well-known wrestling promoter. who is at present in Sydney, the team of matmen who will be coming to the Dominion this year will l>e the bent which has ever visited these shores. One of the first to arrive will be John Katan. who is featured in America as a “top-liner’’ and has had wins over McCready and oilier leading wrestlers. Katan is 6ft in height and weighs 230 lb. Another will be Jack Donovan, whose favourite method is the body slam, while Boland Kirchemoyer, the powerful giant, who stands oyer 6ft Jin, has an outstanding reputation. Mays McClain comes from Oklahoma. He is a half American Indian, about 2-lOIb in weight. Oft 2Jin in height, and is an all-American footV.-. 11 player. His speciality is the flying tackle, and he has been among the leading wrestlers for the past six or seven years.

Dazzler Clark comes from the East to complete the first hatch. He weighs 23O'H and is over Cft in height. These five men will arrive on Alay 1. and will he followed in the next ship by Ted Cox. who does not need anv introduction as lie is very wellknown through his great work in New Zealand. Then in June there will be Karl McCready, Ray Steels and Paul Jones.