WRESTLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22910, 18 June 1936, Page 16

WRESTLING

LEATHERS v. M'CREADY On the evening of the King’s Birthday, “ Sad Sam ” Leathers will make his first appearance before a Dunedin audiencof when he will meet the British Empire champion, Earl M’Crcady. at the Town Hall. Leathers, who is Oft 4Jin in height, is a leg hold specialist, being particularly suited to the application of such bolds bv reason of bis build. He has a long and very powerful pair of legs, and uses them to apply tbo most amazing collection of leg and combination arm and leg bolds it is possible to imagine. His height is liable to convey a false impression of bis weight, which is just over 16 stone, and he carries a particularly broad and powerful pair of shoulders, lie comes to the Dominion with an outstanding record, which lie in no small measure substauti; ated when be mot M’CniiuJ.v at Wanganui last week on the occasion of ids first appearance in a New Zealand ring, and succeeded in taking a fall out of the clever Canadian. Leathers used a very punishurn tvpe of figure four »eissors to secure his fall, and all through the contest he repeatedly had the champion properly lied un with the manner in which he used his legs. From newspaper reports of this contest it would appear that Leathers was unlucky in that he did not secure the second fall from his opponent by means of his famous scissors hold, for just when it appeared to the audience that M'Cready would again have to submit, the latter struggled to his feet and then fell backwards upon Leathers, and in doing so dumped the latter so heavily that he could not continue, thus muling tile best contest ever witnessed in Wanganui. The box plans for Tuesday s contest open at the D.T.C. this morning.