EARL McCREADY.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20421, 24 September 1938, Page 3

EARL McCREADY.

WRESTLING IN ENGLAND

BOUT AT ALBERT HALL. ENGLISH PRESS PRAISE. Earl MeCready, the Canadian wrest ler, so well-known to New Zealanders, has begun a campaign designed to con vince English sportsmen that wrestling is not one of the lost arts.' His first bout in London attracted only a small attendance to the i'bert Hall, but tho fine display of scientific grappling given by MeCready and the giant Amc rican, Ruben Wright ‘aroused much enthusiasm among the critics. Ben Bennison, writing in the Evening Standard, said of MeCready:—“He re-created days when in the dales and valleys of the north country the wrestler was one of the kings of sport; when big and ponderous men and little whipcord men of this and, that village measured strength against strength, and only the fittest and best survived. ... I readily allow that he has reconverted me. Without a doubt he is one of the finest exponents of cateh-as-catch-ean 1 have seen. “MeCready is intensely serious, as becomes an avowed crusader. He is more than 6ft and nearly 17st. A typical Highlander, you would say, as hard as granite, so strong that in the sixth of an 8-round bout lie lifted Wright, astone the heavier, shoulder high aiid threw and bounced him about the ring as if it were child’s play. This was the only fall in a long, mighty and impelling battle. . . . And now I itch to see MeCready again, preferaby, need it be said, against Jim Londos, who won me to him during any last stay in America.”