UNSUITABLE SPORT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19943, 30 October 1934, Page 10

UNSUITABLE SPORT

WRESTLING FOR WOMEN Two announcements, of a disquieting nature in regard to women, have appeared in English newspapers. One refers to a proposed “all-in” wrestling match between two young girls, which promises to be a display of the bearcat order. We are informed that “anything bordering on brutality will be banned,” and that there are to be “no strangleholds or choke-holds, no punching or kicking, no twisting of toes or fingers, no gouging of the eyes, and no pulling of the hair.” Aparc rrom these restrictions, everything. apparently, is to be pleasant and ladylike (says an English women’s journal). We are informed, however, that both these young women have wrestled with, and beaten, men. But. whatever their prowess, it is to be hoped that this contest for the “women’s wrestling championship of England” will not take place, and that firm steps will be taken to prevent it. The other announcement is to the effect that a young woman of Blackpool has just refereed in three important boxing contests at Manchester. Probably the occasion was only a “stunt,” but it is regrettable that the incident should, in any case, have occurred.