NEW WRESTLING BODY
WELLINGTON MOVEMENT WALKER TO REAPPEAR (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this (lav. From inquiries made by an Evening Post representative, following a recent announcement that George Walker had gone into training, it is learned that an independent team of wrestlers is on the way to the Dominion by the Monterey, .which is due at Auckland on June 11, to wrestle, under the control of a new promoting organisation. An organisation, called the Dominion Athletic Club has been formed to handle the importation of men, and the promotion of bouts will he in the hands of the New Zealand Wrestling and Athletic Club, which has branches in Wellington and other important centres. It is stated that Walker will he wrestling under the new control and that Ihe first ha tell of men coming include
Steve Savage, who made a, short visit to the order of the Dominion Wrestling Union last year.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 6
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152NEW WRESTLING BODY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 6
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