BOESCH SAYS FAREWELL

Evening Star, Issue 23378, 22 September 1939, Page 4

BOESCH SAYS FAREWELL

DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA APPRECIATION OF OTAGO FOOTBALLERS [By Hooker.] From Wellington last week came a farewell message from Paul Boesch, one of the most popular American wrestlers ever to visit this country—ho was due to sail with his wife for the United States on Monday last from Auckland. Paul expressed his regret that he could not have had one more match in Dunedin, and asked the writer to thank the people of Dunedin for their interest in his career and the many letters and telegrams they sent to help him along. “ I really enjoyed wrestling, there, and you can say for me that I was treated as well as I have been in any city on the face of the globe,” he writes. “ The referee was ‘ swell,’ the association went out of ite way to make me at home, and the fans were unstinted in their appreciation.” During the Otago Rugby team’s tour of the north, many of its members became personal friends of Boesch, who, as previously mentioned, paid the manager, Mr A. C. Haynes, a nice compliment by having him act as second at Timaru in his contest with Rube Wright. Subsequently, on behalf of the Otago team who attended the match at Timaru, Mr Haynes sent Boesch a wire, wishing him the best in his match with Earl M'Cready at Auckland. “ I have to thank Bert Haynes for the wire the Otago team sent me in Auckland,” Boesch adds. “I am sorrv I didn’t win for them, but 1 guess I needed them in front of me instead of at the hack of me. But. say good-bye to all of them for me; they are sure a ‘swell’ bunch,”-