Big Wrestling Event

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 223, 24 September 1934, Page 8

Big Wrestling Event

BOX PLANS OPEN TO-DAY. Tor the biggest v?rcstling Jixturo to be staged in our city tho box plans open this morning at 10 o’clock at the. Central Booking Office in Broadway. Tho iSonnenberg-.Meyer contest will be held at the Opera House on Wednesday night, and taking a line from the “man in the street,” who says ho will allow 7 nothing to keep him away from it, the Opera House will, ns on other occasions when the headliners in the wrestling sport have been here, be all too small to accommodate those who say they will attend. To be sure of a seat, especially our country readers, who make a special trip to the town for tho occasion, we suggest booking in advance, as every indication points to a “sold-right-out’’ at an early date. The merits of the wrestlers are woll known. Meyer has never been seen in Palmerston North, but he is as well known as his countryman Jake Patterson was, for his unorthodox carryings on in the ring. Every radio announcer in the Dominion has repeatedly remarked on his tactics and his apparent unpopularity with tho public on account of these methods, but as a draw-card he is the best in this year’s batch of visitors. Gus Sonnenberg is, however, the great attraction, an undoubted world’s champion, won on his merit, and held the belt from PJ3O, when he beat “Strangler” Lewis, until 3932, when it was wrcstel from him by big Jim Browning. It is not otten that we get the real goods here in far-away New Zealand, but there is no gainsaying tho fact that the Sonnenberg-Meyer bout on Wednesday ranks first in importance to come our way.