WRESTLING
HEAVY MEN ARE POPULAR. The great wrestling match between heavyweights Joe Steelier and Howard Cantonwine, held in Wellington last year, has made fans wonder why more heavyweight grapplers and a few lightheavyweights are not brought to this country, says “Crucifix’’ in the “New Zealand Referee. ’ ’ This year the team coming from overseas will comprise much heavier grapplers than were here last season, and this is for the better. Heavyweights are more entertaining when in action than light-heavies, but in Australia last year it was the lighter men who drew the crowds. As heavyweight contests were taking place all over the Commonwealth, however, it is not hard to understand "why the public preferred to see Billy Edwards and Ted Thye more than Lewis, Joe Steelier and Caiitonwine. So far as New Zealand is concerned, good heavyweights would attract the fans because contests between big men in this country are very rare. This year’s team, however, is one of the best in the world, but next season it would be just as well to bring some of the “giants’’ across apd leave a few of the lighter men behind.
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 12
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188WRESTLING Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 12
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