WRESTLING FIASO

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1930, Page 6

WRESTLING FIASO

THE RING FELTEfD.’ \:h Hv '1 j>ti—l'er l J re«s Association. ..WELLINGTON; August d 8!' Pennies, crumpled-up . programmes; corks, bric-a-brac of various pnH and even beer bottles, found'their way into-the ring during a wrestli hg fiasco which occurred to-night at 'tlie’ Town Hal!. They were contributed as a mark of appreciation by the audience, who would have dispatched vegetables, too, if they had been at hand. No match of the same type has ever been staged here before." The’Wrestlers were “Scotty” Macßougnll 3 (14st 2lb> and Walter Hogg (I4st). McHougall won with falls in the third and the fourth rounclsFihtftVcould have won as he liked. The match was slow, and dull beyond measure,, and it soon, essential to maintain the strength factory ending seemed desperately impossible. It was watched by a fair house, whose dissatisfaction began to simmer in the first few minutesfot the first round, rapidly becoming- 1 dvocal, and eventually vociferous. Remarks couched in more or less, urgent language and calculated to awaken the statuesque gra.pplers as they lay practically inert on the mat, whore- soon converging in the ring from all parts of the.house. After the first minute.tihjj,-, tty# audience were noisy, ; and tidy' became increasin ftiy so as the match wore on, except for a few seconds -of silence at the end of Round One, : when...they were trying to convince themselves that they had been. wateliirig>:Hvrestlying. Frequent countings-out gave most of the audience an opportunity of making appropriate; nqises:;- The more ldase ones whiled; aivayj.'thqir time with bursts of song. ' Almost everyone made random observations.