Fritz Holland Takes Up Tom Alley's Challenge For Bout Between Wrestler and Boxer

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 827, 22 November 1929, Page 7

Fritz Holland Takes Up Tom Alley's Challenge For Bout Between Wrestler and Boxer

I DON T think he will need to beat six boxers. I will box him. and I don't think he will beat me." In these words does Fritz Holland, once famous as a middle-weight boxer, take up the challenge of Toni Aliev Mormon wrestler, in Christchurch, to beat six boxers in one evening, wrestling against boxing'.

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wrestling is u better sport :* ml a more efficient art of self-defence than is In milking his challenge Alley said lie would meet the boxers in a boxing ling, and they need not wear gloves at i'll. If the law would not permit them to meet him without gloves they < ©uld wear the thinnest gloves the law would permit. “If Tom Alley can get permission from the Christchurch Sports Club and the police for such a

bout to be be Id. I'll meet h m.” says Fritz Holland- “There is thi« about it. though, that if he gcr< down. say. on one knee, to grab me by the feet, or anything like that. I am to be a I lowed to h»t him.” Fritz Holland, now settled in Christ i hut ch, was one of the best middle before the Great War. If he did men Aliev in a boxing ' wrestling contes he would be giving away a big handcap iu age and weight, but he t f»rmlv of opinion that a good boxf van beat a good wrestler.