WRESTLING BOUT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 6

WRESTLING BOUT

World Title Elimination Contest The meeting of Francis Fouehe and Doii Noland, one of the highlights of the present elimination tournament, is the finest wrestling attraction to be held in Hastings this season. The incentive to win is enormous, as these two men will be wrestling not - merely for the purse, but also for the early opportunity fo meeting the world champion, Bronko Nagurski. Fouche wrestled Nagurski to a draw three years ago, but subsequently was unable to secure a championship" match, and in consequence has como to New Zealand with the sole object Of participatingi in this tourney. Don Noland came to New Zealand- via Australia, where he won 25 out of 27 contests, in order to meet Dean Detton, who was then world champion. However, Det-, ton has since lost the title, and this tournament is a golden opportunity for Noland to get an early match with Nagurski. Both men are top liners in the States, and Eouche had not been beaten for eighteen months nntil he lost the decision to Blomfield on points in Auckland last Monday night. Noland has not yet been defeated in this tournament. This will be a contest that will be worth going a long way to witness. The' amateurs to-morrow night will in^lude Everard Jackson, the All Black, and J. Upchurcli, of Wellington, a pupil of Anton Koolman,