HACKENSCHMIDT'S VISIT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12654, 24 January 1910, Page 4

HACKENSCHMIDT'S VISIT.

.'.-.;.- — .:;-. '*y', y •£■>.■> ■ -"Not. chiefly owing to his bfeing rt conqueror of champions has the name of Hackensthmidt beconie: 30, ' popular throughout the World, but mainly to his clear record throughout his ' prqf ession'al career. - Between , f6ur arid" fiyie years ago George Hackeiisfchmidt, the "Russian Lion" and world's heavy-weight chattipion wrestler, yS§i£ed Australia and' At once established "himself m po'jtaila'v favor ; he was $0 exceptionally cleyer, such a fine sbqwman, and, in' skill, far above any other wrestler seen -m - this part of the world. Tliis much was conceded by old followers of the game, who had watched Tom Cannon, Harry . Dunn, Jack Connors, Donald Dinnie, ad Professor Miller on the mat within verylittta of a quarter of a century ago, and at a time when wrestling boomed as it has never boomed since'and possibly'it might have been booming . still but for the ways of some of its exponents. Tonight at His Majesty's Theatre "The Russian Lion" wilLgive the first of two athletic displays. Accompanying the famous wrestler are Gunner Moir, arid Bain. The entertainment consists m the main of all of the admitted forms of wretetling. Included m the gerieriijj : athletic scheme, which. Hackenschmidt gives are exhibitions of physical culture, posture plastique and training methods, ' m addition to which Gnnner Moir and Bain engage with the. Russian ' champion m a series of wrestlig bouts. Cinematb- ' graph pictures are displayed/illustrating / Hackenschmidt'fj chief international ' contest',- which a lecturer explains m detail. Several notable vaudeville artists appear, Box plans and day sale tickets for botli displays are at Millers. > •