WRESTLING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 7

WRESTLING.

LIGHT-HEAVY-WEIGHT TITLE. MEESKE'S CLAIM UNRECOGNISED. [by telec;rai>h. —own correspondent.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The suggestion by Bain. Billy Meeske's manager, that the various associations should contribute toward a belt for Meeske as an emblem of winning the world's light-heavy-weight wrestling championship from Alley last year, did not find favour at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Wrestling Union. It wns decided to reply that the union did not recognise officially the transfer of either the title or the belt. The matter wan arranged between the two men themselves, and the union doubted its right to recognise either man as champion. In moving the adoption .of the annual report, Mr. H. D. Bennett said the executive had been in communication with Hamlin and Tliye, oil the Pacific Coast of America, and with Bowser, on the East Coast, and the arrangements provided that the wrestlers sent by these promoters should be of good character, and that the promoters should see that the men had their return fare back to their own country. . It was decided that an application from Napier for affiliation as an association should be declined, on the grounds that the Hawke's Bay Association wns willing to combine and admit four Napier men to the executive.