WRESTLING IN AUSTRALIA
After having enjoyed a very successful season in Australia, Ray Steele, the wrestler, arrived by the Awatea from Sydney today to meet "Lofty" Blomfield, the New Zealand champion, in a special match at Carlaw Park, Auckland, on Saturday. For this match the .Auckland Wrestling Association made Steele an offer of a guarantee of £1000, the largest offer ever made to a wrestler in Australia.
Referring to wrestling in Australia, Steele said that matches in Sydney this season had drawn attendances of 15,000 and 16,000. There had been capacity houses also in Melbourne, and on one'occasion several thousand people were turned away. Comparing the New Zealand and Australian audiences, Steele said he thought the New Zealand patrons' appreciated a little more straight wrestling than they did in Australia.
What he felt was needed in Australian wrestling, Steele continued, was the development of an Australian champion who could take his place in "the same way as Blomfield did in New Zealand. Eddie Scarfc, the former Australian Olympic Games representative, showed real promise.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 4
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