WRESTLERS' PROFITS
REMITTANCE TO STATES
TED THYE EXPLAINS WHY
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.
Regarded up to three years ago, when he retired from the ring, as one of the cleverest wrestlers in,the world, and now a leading promoter of wrestling, in' the United States, Tec! Thye arrived today by the Aorangi from
Vancouver.' He said it was more or less a holiday visit and that he would later go to Australia and thence to India, probably: taking with him Ed "Strangle?" Lewis. Thye.was met in Auckland today by Walter; Miller, "agent" for the American' wrestlers in the Dominion.. ■ ;
"You are reputed to be a millionaire," an interviewer remarked. Thye laughed. "The worst of those stories," he said, "is that one is expected to live up to them—and I can't." Asked about the stories told in New Zealand of percentages from the wrestlers' earnings being sent to their clubs in America, Thye said that wrestlers had to have managers, who had to get something out of it. They were the men who made the wrestling game. New Zealand, he said, had a good organisation. The Dominion Union arranged the matches and there were' no petty jealousies. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 11
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197WRESTLERS' PROFITS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 11
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