WRESTLING TO-NIGHT

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20909, 14 September 1939, Page 13

WRESTLING TO-NIGHT

McCREADY HERE AGAIN PAUL JONES’ BIG CHANCE A wrestling match of special interest will be staged in the Hamilton ring tonight. Earl McCready, the popular British Empire champion, will meet Paul Jones, the hook scissors expert from Texas, and the proven duality of these two wrestlers gives the certainty that the resultant display will be one of outstanding merit. McCready stands out as one of the men mainly responsible for wrestling becoming as firmly established in the Dominion as it is today and Jones is one of the men of high standing in the sport whose presence here not only serves to hold the public's enthusiasm but is also a tribute to the prestige which the Dominion Union commands with the big American promoters. This is McCready’s fourth season in New Zealand and the years since be arrived here for the first time in 193<3 have seen wrestling grow to a stage where it ranks with the major sporting interests of the Dominion. Nor has it been merely a coincidence as the Canadian’s highly polished displays have been Ihe guiding light leading the way. McCready has now had about 130 contests in New Zealand and has been beaten in only one of them while it is impossible to recall a poor display on 1 his part. Jones a Good Opponent Jones is an opponent of the right calibre to put McCready properly on his mettle. He is in wrestling not only because he makes his living from it but also because he has a real enthusiasm for the sport, an enthusiasm which caused him to set to work to master every angle of it and to keep himself always in perfect physical shape. After being outstanding as an amateur he has been consistently ranked with the best wrestlers in the United States for the past ten years and a tougher battler it would be hard to find anywhere. To cap his all-round skill Jones has a speciality hold in his hook-scissors that any other wrestler would give almost anything to possess. It very seldom fails to win him a fall in any match and has the additional virtue of leaving the victim partially incapacitated.