IKE ROBIN

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 17

IKE ROBIN

GREAT MAORI WRESTLER MATCH IN MELBOURNE TO-NIGHT. When the. large man whose picture you see below makes'his bow-at Melbourne Stadium to-night there will probably be more peopl© there to see him than .there were to watch fifteen All Blacks play Rugby in Sydney. The wrestling game is, booming in, Melbburne: 'in bn© recent match,- at the Motordoufe,' 17,000 people were spocta-, tors. ' ;; * . Ike Rbbin in years gßne' by used to he seen in Napier occasionally tossing the ca&er at- Caledonian sports. Once, they say—we -are; not prepared to vouch for th© truth of it—-he tossed it out of the ground with disastrous results to a man’s garden. Last year he found that his size and- weight gave him an enormous advantage in wrestling—so great an advantage that no man could throw him. : Robin has not been beaten in a match in New Zealand, and to-night he will meet Walter Miller, the middle-

weight champion of the world, for £soo' aside. If he succeeds in this match, and in the others he will get in Melbourne, Robin hopes to go on and meet the big fellows of U.S.A. Robin is 76 inches tall, and weighs about 17st. New Zealand; has produced worldheaters in many sports, but never one in wrestling. Robin is no braggart, but he thinks he may be the one.