TOWN HALL NOT AVAILABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1930, Page 5

TOWN HALL NOT AVAILABLE

SEQUEL TO WRESTLING TROUBLE

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Oct. 20. At a meeting of the finance committee (which is the City Council as a whole) this evening it was decided, on the motion of the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, that Billy Edwards be debarred from wrestling in the Town Hall; that is, if there are any further wrestling matches of a similar nature to the last Tuesday’s one between- Edwards and Alley, the council will bar any future use of the Town Hall, irrespective of ■which body promotes them, and that the council urge- those concerned to bring about the formation of one controlling body only for wrestling.'

WRESTLING AT AUCKLAND.

TWO MEN UNABLE TO CONTINUE.

Auckland, Oct. 20.

Two wrestling matches were held this evening, one at the Town Hall un- ( der the control of the New Zealand Wrestling Association, between George Kotsonaros (Greece) and Scotty McDougall (Scottish Canadian), ending in favour of the Greek by a submission fall in the sixth round ‘by means of a keylock, McDougall being unable to continue the match.

At His Majesty’s Theatre a match took place between Billy Edwards and Pdt McGill, under, the auspices of the Ex-Servicemen’s Union, which ended in a win for McGill. Edwards secured the first fall in he fourth round with a series of head locks. In the sixth round McGill dumped his opponent, who was unable to continue.