WRESTLERS' PLIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23061, 11 June 1938, Page 17

WRESTLERS' PLIGHT

LACK OF ACCOMMODATION FIVE HOURS' WAIT IN COLD [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday The lack of hotel accommodation in Hamilton was the cause of much discomfort to the two professional heavy-weight wrestlers, Raj Steele, of America, and Pat Meehan, of Canada, who fought a drawn bout in the Theatre Royal, Hamilton, last night. They were obliged to wait five hours in the cold in the early hours of yesterday morning before rooms could be secured for them.

Accompanied by their wives, Steele and Meehan arrived at Frankton Junction by the first express from Wellington at 4.19 a.m. yesterday morning. As they had travelled from tho south and as neither had been able to sleep on the train journey from Wellington both men were very tired when they stepped out of the train at Frankton and they expressed their desire to rest before their engagement last night. Arriving at a hotel almost simultaneously, both wrestlers found that no accommodation was available, but they were told that there was a likelihood of obtaining rooms later in the morning. Both men waited in the cold in the vestibule of the hotel for five hours until, at 9.30 a.m., rooms became available.