WRESTLING BROADCASTS
| Sir,-Hamish G. Hay refers to wrestling as cheap and vulgar-this is not. just his opinion, but a positive fact! Just because he says so. In spite of the fact that hundreds flock to the booking office as soon as the box plan is open, he brands all these as "de--praved dupes of this so-called sport." And all those people who live in the country and cannot get in to book their seats, he would deprive of listen-ing-in, because he does not understand what sport is. Does he know that these wrestlers have to submit to a most rigorous self-discipline and strict training so that they enter the ring as perfect as the human body can be? They must be quick to think, and act, and spend years getting themselves in this condition. Perhaps "H.G.H." prefers a_ sport where animals are flogged and ripped with spurs to get the best out of them, or another where a small animal is chased by a pack, urged on by pursuers till exhausted it is caught and torn to pieces. If the rising generation would only put in a fraction of the training and self-discipline these wrestlers have to give themselves, the nation would be a lot better for it, and should occasion . arise there would not be so many rejects for National Service.
A. T.
BAILEY
(Ohakea)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 5
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226WRESTLING BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 5
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