WRESTLING NEWS.
MORE OVERSEAS MEN COMING Referring at. the annual meeting of the Wellington Wrestling Union last, week to the. arrangements which had been made for tlie coming season, the president, Mr. H. D. Bennett, said these were very satisfactory. This year the wrestlers would come to New Zealand in three different groups—all quite independent of one. another. There would he teams from the East, and West Coasts of America, and there was the third group of men, who had been engaged to visit Australia and who would be on the whole a heavier class than those coming to New Zealand, who would be the usual light-heavy-weights. The men engaged to Australia would appear here before going to and coming from Australia. The union would also be able to draw such men as Meeske from Australia, and there were those men who might bo produced in New Zealand, for they now had to regard George Walker as a Now Zealander. In all of the arrangements no wrestler who had previously visited New Zealand was included, with the possible exception of Pinto. It was hoped that the first of the wrestlers would arrive earlier this year than last,, and they would remain as long as they were able to ge|, matcher
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 15
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