WRESTLING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4464, 12 June 1930, Page 2

WRESTLING.

MONDAY’S 810 CONTEST. Fred Ebert, the young Austrian i envy-weight wrestler and athlete, who meets the redoubtable Scotty MeDougall in the Opera House, Palmer.sion North, next Monday night, lias had a most interesting' amt successful career. He has wrestled in Ids native Austria at. college, in Germany at university, in India, in .Japan, in South America, in England, and in Australia. Now, a t ier a series of seven victories in West. Australia, he has come to New Zealand seeking fresh fields to conquer. lie has met such giants of the mat as Shikar, until last week world champion; Hans Sleink, the 1.(1.] stone German grappler; Professor Hagatui, the acknowledged master of the wrestling' ring in Japan; Sam Bnrmoisler, champion ~f Esthonia; Joe Higgins, British navy champion, John lveinda.ll, a giant Pinn weighing IS stone; Tom Zurich, European champion: and Count Zarunoff, redonblahle Kus -inn grappler and uthJete. Pliei'L is an able exponent of the iainous "back loop shun" which has won so many victories for John I'csclc, and using this deadly grip and fall, defeated Zaranolf, Higgin>, Zurich and Burineistei'. The taller, a very ruggedly built man, ,\a> hors do coinhat for Imtf-uu-hoin after Ebert laid applied the back slam.

MrDoiigall, the other party to this very promising meeting, has the notable distinction of having wrestled a draw wilh Jim Rondos, tlie pi esc ll l world eliampion, while he has met such oitrftalrtiidiug grapple!-. as John Pesdk, and Strangler Lewis. The big Suolch-Canadian i- unfed for his pugilistic attitude in Ihe ring and his lightning attack. The matching of MeDougall and t bert is a distinct stroke of luck for the Palmerston North Wrestling Association.

Ebert- arrived in Palmerston N. \estorday in preparation for the contest and Me Don gal I is expected lo arrive to-dav. Both men are eager to meet again and decide the issue left in the balance at Auckland,