WRESTLING PROMOTER
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Ted Thye Arrives at Auckland
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AUCKLAND, Last Night. Begarded up to three years ago, when ho Tetired from the ring, as one of the cleverest wrestlers in the world, and now a leading promoter of wrestliing in the United iStates, Ted Thye arrived to-day by the Aorangi from Vancouver. He said it was more or less a holiday visit and that he would later go «o Australia and thence to India, probably taking with hiin Ed. "Stranglor" Lewis. Tlu^e was met in Auckland today by Walter Miller, "agent" for the Amenican wrestlera in the Dominion. "You are reputed to be a milbonaire, ' ' an interviewer remarked. Thye laughed. "The worst of these storieS, " he feiSid, "is that one is expected to live up to them — and I can't. " Asked about the stories told in New Zealand of porcentagos from tho wrestlers' earnings being sent to their clubs in America, Thye said that wrestlers had to have managors, who had to get something out of it. They were the men who made thO( wrestliug game. Npw Zodland, he said, had a good organisation. The Dpminion Union arranged the raatahes and there wero no petty jealousjes.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 116, 2 June 1937, Page 7
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