WRESTLING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 6

WRESTLING

Two Class Matmen

Two men who sharea the distinction of being the lirst to draw with Earl MeCreauy this season will meet in the professipnal heavyweight wrestling uout which is to tane place at Hastings next Friday. They are Matros Kinlinlio, the colourfui Eussian, who held the great Canadian to a i'all-less draw in the local ring, and Chief Little Wolf, a particularly mterestmg addition to the Dominion Uniou 's f'orces, who made McCready s,ubmit to an Indian deatlitoek and, by thus levelling the fails at the last minute, provided a sensational elimax to his lirst bout, at Wellington, ivirilinko is highly pdpular with local enthusiasls, who respect him as a truly grout wrestler who gives a bout many uncxpected twists. Considerable interest. however, ia bound to be displayed in his opponent, a blue-blooded and copper-skinned Navajo brave. Little Wolf has been associated with wrestling ever since he was a student at Haskell College ana has worked his way up through all the. vveight divisions from welterweight to heavyweight as a professional. In the lighter classes he defeated two world cliampions iu Gus- Kellio and Hugh Nichols., When he set out amohg tho heavyweights he qu'ickly forced attention upon liimself and was immediately signed up under a highly-profithble coutract. Little Wolf has all the orthodox holds at his command ih addition tp a number of specialties. outstanding simong which ds the death (oclc, from which he elaims there is no escape once he has applied it. Tlie following are the amateur preiiniinaries:— G. Morris v. L. Haftka • W. Bennett v. G. Drayson; G. Alliugham v. Alf. Skudder; W. Hamilton v. J. Piitterson ; etnergency L. Lewis v. H. Rendle.