NEEDLE MATCH?

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 6

NEEDLE MATCH?

MeCREADY’S QUEST

BOUT WITH KIRCHMEYER

Reports from Wellington indicate that Earl McCready, British Empire wrestling champion, is on the warpath, seeking to dispose finally of the claims of those who have run him close in matches of recent weeks. For this reason, Wrestling Union officials believe that the match between McCready and Rollcnd Kirchmeyer at the Opera House to-night may develop into one of those tussles in wliich the public get all the entertainment.

During recent weeks the Canadian champion has been handicapped by •an arm injury, and while thus handicapped he has had some narrow escapes from defeat, Kirchmeyer being one of those who has run him extremely close on two occasions. His arm now being in good shape again, McCready is going after the top-notehers among the American group of matmen now in New Zealand, and Kirchmeyer is the first of the list.

It is not a matter of personal animosity with McCready, for he has in view the possibility that Jim Londos, world heavyweight champion, will make a visit to Australia and New Zealand this season. This open s up the prospect of a world championship, bout for the. best man available, and McCready means to leave no stone unturned to prove that he is the man for the match. Few of the opponents available in New Zealand: for McCready deserve so much respect as Kirchmeyer, who has reached world class both as an amateur and as a professional. He has a punishing specialty, the python clutch, which has proved a first-class match-winner, and is competent in all departments of the mat sport. Amateur bouts billed as preliminaries are well above the average in interest, and t the .Read-Duckworth special, of five rounds, should almost rival the professional bout in its attraction for the wrestling public.