WRESTLERS “PLAY” TAG

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 19

WRESTLERS “PLAY” TAG

It is some little time now since professional wrestlers paraded their personalities and poundage before Christchurch audiences: but they will return next week, with the mixture as before, but at double strength. Tag (two-a-side) wrestling, which has drawn huge crowds overseas, will be staged in Christchurch for the first time on Thursday evening. Tag wrestling should bold considerable appeal, for in single combat even the most athletic performers have been deprived of their liberty for interminable periods by unimaginative opponents. But in the new form, a wrestler in difficulties may seek a helping hand: provided the assistant's hand

is reached oyer the top rope and holding a special tag rope.

So very often, all four are at it together, and it is. apparently, a most diverting and fast-moving affair.

There is a fine international flavour about the first i teams. R. Wallace (Australia) will team with R. i Zolnowski (Poland) against S. Rickard (New Zealand) and A. KontelI lis (Greece).

[All four have excellent reputations overseas and they ‘ should be thoroughly capI able of giving the new form of wrestling a spectacular start

A further bout, for which the contestants have not yet ben named, has been set down for June 29, also at the Civic Theatre.