WRESTLING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 14

WRESTLING.

THE MERGER NEGOTIATIONS. AN AGREEMENT PROBABLE. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, October 3. Further negotiations with a view to a merger between the New Zealand Wrestling Association and the Ex-service-men’s Wrestling Union were carried out to-day by 'Mr H. D. Bennett, president of the Dominion of New Zealand Wrestling Union, but a complete agreement was not" reached. It - Is understood that the only hitch now is with regard to the position of the secretary. The New Zealand Association offered to take over the whole of the membership of the Ex-servicemen’s Union, including the executive, and at the end of the year to hold an election for a new executive. The association desires an independent secretary, and will not agree to the appointment of the secretary of the Ex-servicemen’s Union to the combined body should the merger take place. Provided no agreement is reached, the New Zealand Association intends to carry on as at present, but it is understood that, failing anj agreement, Mr Bennett will take the. matter up with the Dominion Union in Wellington. He intends to stay in Auckland until Monday, and it is possible an agreement will be reached before his return to Wellington. OANTONWINE DEFEATS THYE. {Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 3. The wrestling contest to-night between Howard Cantonwine (America), 15st, and Ted Thye (ex-light heavyweight champion of the world), 13.8, resulted in a win for the former in the fifth round. Thye had a body scissors on his opponent, who got up and fell backwards on Thye, knocking him out. Gantonwine. secured an easy fall, and Thye was unable to continue. The bout was staged by the Ex-servicemen’s Wrestling Union. There was only a fair attendance of spectators.