'SMILING' STEVE SAVAGE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 10

'SMILING' STEVE SAVAGE

Well-Known Wrestler to Appear in .Hastings Wrestling entbusiasts wiU'have an opportunity ;DQxt Thursday evening oi seeina in action two members of tbe second '"string of. overseas • grapplers now touiiDg tbe Dominion. One of the chiefs -of- tbis elan is "Smiling'* ■ Steve Savage and in .seeuring hira for ; the | opening of the season the Pioneer I Wrestling Club has indeed gained a great. attraction. His opponent 1b to be Tony Felice, the'italian hercules, who considers hirnself one ot the toughest ;— and • rough* sl— of , all the wrestlers in New Zealani. . Tbe contest is to take place in the Hastings Municipal Theatre on Thursday night, following the Hawke's Bay v. Poverty Bayltugby football representative fixture at Nelson Park, so that' ne'xt Thursday will be one of the big sporting days of the season. Both matmen are seasoned warriors of the hempen ring. Savage is undisputedly one of the elete of the wrestling world and last Wednesday he and Walker packed the Wellington Town Hall and the paii-'were voted a-great matching. Felice has the reputation of being the . "referee's nightniare." He makes tbe third man in tbe ring work alniost as strenuously as tbe two principals. and' that's saying soniething as.far as he -is coacerned. On Thursday night he will have JVIr Goo.- Bennett, oi' Wellington, to contend with as well as "Smiling ' Steve, w?ien he. startS/ t.o "r;ut. up rough." Under theae circunistances wrestling fans in thia distriei are , duo : for . soino niost ontertuiuing and cxciting work in .the ring. An-a.ngeiuents have been-uiu.de f oi; a

good team of amateurs to participate in the preliminary programme and patrons are advised-to take note of-further announcements concerning the bout ■next week.