WRESTLING FIASCO.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18650, 20 August 1930, Page 7

WRESTLING FIASCO.

ASSOCIATIONS EXPLANATION. By Telegraph—Prew Association WELLINGTON, August 19. “It was most unfortunate that such a match should have been put on,” said Mr H. D. Bennett, president of the Dominion of New Zealand Wrestling Union, referring in a statement made this evening to the farcical bout in which “Scotty” MacDougall and Walter Hogg figured last night. Mr Bennett proceeded to outline the position of the Wellington Wrestling Association when arranging the match. Hogg was a New Zealander, he said, born in Wellington, and for weeks past had been complaining to the Association about not being able to get a match. Hogg had stated that Americans had no right to come into this country and take big money out of it, when New Zealand had wrestlers equally as good, if not better, who were unable to get matches. Hogg claimed that he was as good as any of the other men now wrestling here, and his record, which he produced, showed that he had been thought enough of in Australia to have been put up against men like Santel, Gale, Sea grave, and MacDougall. When he wrestled MacDougall previously it had been a most exciting match. Hogg was quite confident, and the Association decided to put him up against MacDougall. “We certainly did not want it said by a New Zealander that he had to go outside of his own country to get matches,” said Mr Bennett.