WRESTLING.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1930, Page 1

WRESTLING.

HOGG’S COMPLAINT.

LED TO MONDAY’S MATCH

EXPLANATION BY MR BENNETT

v ß.y Telegraph—Per Press Association

WELLINGTON, August 20,

It was most jimfortunate tliiit such ii match should have been put on, said Mr H. D. Bennett, President of the Dominion of New Zealand Wrestling Union, referring to the farcical bout in which “Scotty” McDougall and Walter Hogg figured. Hogg was a New Zealander. He was horn in Wellington, and for weeks had been complaining about not being able to get a match. He said Americans had no right to come into this country and take big money out of it when New Zealand had wrestlers equally as good, if not better, who were unable to get matches. Hogg claimed that he was as good as any of the other men now wrestling here and his record showed he had been through enough of it in Australia to have been put up against men like Santel, Gale, Seagrave and McDougall. When he had wrestled McDougall previously, it had been a most exciting match. Hogg was quite confident and the Association decided to put him up against McDougall. They certainly did not want it said by a New Zealander that he had to go outside of Ills own country to get matches.