GEORGE HACKENSCHMIDT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9593, 3 February 1910, Page 6

GEORGE HACKENSCHMIDT.

George Hackeuschmidt, the champion wrestler aud atnlote, will appear at the Town Hall to-morrow evening iv oue of his famous displays of wrestling in the approved styles, physical culture, posture posiug, training aud endurance exercises, aud numerous other methods employed in the physical culture schemo laid down by him.. This aud a programme of music, magic, song, aud story by members of Hackeuschmidt's Loudon company, suggest a very novel and interesting entertainment. The following experience is recounted by the great wrestler. Duriug his recent tour of South Africa, Hackcuschmidt made it a practice to train every moruiug ou the stago ;>t the theatre in which he was appearing. At one of the towns he visited, a well-known local sportsmau brought along a huge Zulu of fully twenty stone, and asked Hackeuschmidt if he would wrestle the big black, who had an idea that he was too stroug for the champion to down. Hackeuschmidt consented, aud the pair took the mat/ At the word "wrestle on," Hackeuschmidt weut straight for his man, and, takiug no cnances, lifted the Zulu clean off the mat, and brought him down with both shoulders touching, aud with such force that it fairly knocked his wiud out. When the Zulu picked himself up he stood aud gazed at Hackeuschmidt in bewilderment. Then with a yell of fear ho cleared the orchestral stalls at a bound, and fled the theatre. Subsequently he was found among a group of his countrymen, whom he had fully convinced that a "white devil" had seized and thrown him right out of the theatre. Duriug the rest of the season uo Zulu could bo induced to go within a mile of the theatre.