WRESTLING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 12

WRESTLING

VARGA AND OSWALD TO MORROW’S PRO. MATCH P. B. CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS Preceded by the final bouts in the various sections of the Poverty Buy amateur championship tournament, the professional match between ilank Oswald and Count Varga, to be staged at the Opera House to-morrow evening, should attract oue of the largest “houses” ol tho wrestling season in Gisborne. The amateur finals themselves should he worth pat-ionising, and the prospect of seeing Oswald in action against a fiery customer such as Count Varga is one that will appeal to the majority ol wrestling supporters in the district as most entertaining. Oswald lias been seen in Gisborne ones previously, and gave a fine exhibition against a substantially heavier opponent in A 1 Pereira, whom he met as the result of an eleventh-hour arrangement caused by the enforced withdrawal of Jack Patterson. The latter was to have met Oswald, and when he developed trouble as the result of a head injury, Pereira was brought from Wellington, to furnish opposition. Hank Oswald is a lively and enterprising matman, with a wide repertoire of tricks and a reputation for straight wrestling with a minimum of irritating by-play.. He should bo' sure oh a warm welcome, back to Gisborne, on the strength of his last appearance here, and the successes he has won in tho meantime.

Count Varga, styled the “monocled man of the ring,” is an Hungarian of authentic nobility of blood, whose skill in wrestling has furnished him with more substantial rewards than any that came his way in return for distinguished service to his country during the Great. War. As a cadet in a military college in 1914, Count Varga was -preparing for his commission when war broke out, and though still in his ’teens, he rose to the rank of captain in the Austrian Army. His family estates were included in territory ceded to Rumania after the war, and the young count sought his fortunes in tho sport of wrestling, in which ho had been a prominent amateur in prewar years. Ho eventually won the European heavyweight championship, and then went to the United States, where he quickly made his mai-k. He has done extremely well in New Zealand during the current season, and tho sustained demand for his services by city associations indicates that lie has not suffered any loss of form during his stay in the Dominion. The order in which the final bouts in the district amateur championship tournament will take place to-morrow night is as under

Light-heavyweight.—C. Gibson v. K Pere.

Lightweight.—E. Perrott v. J. Calla lian.

Welterweight.—lT. Duckworth v. C Buscke.

Middleweight.—C. Clibson v. lv. Pere. Heavyweight.-—Mahunga Brown v. T. Mu nro.