A Noted Wrestler

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 19, 22 November 1929, Page 11

A Noted Wrestler

OHN PESEK, who wrestled in Auckland last Monday night, is a Nebraskan farmer. He says: "I have been wrestling as long as I can remember. When I was a boy going to school I learned to look after myself, and a little later I wrestled with the cowboys out in the prairies. We knew little or nothing about rules. The hard ground was the mat, and it was always rough and tumble-Raf-ferty’s rules, where the one that could last the longest was the winner. Later on I took. up boxing, as there was money to be made in it. I.was matched against Walter Harwood, and I knocked him out in the first round. He was unconscious for two days. This boxing had my mother worried, and she tried to. persude me to give it up. I had to later on because the authorities in Nebraska prohibited it. It was then that I took to wrestling I found out that I liked it better, and that I could make money at it if ] made good, I believe that I’ve don: his, because in the last thousan¢ I have lost the referee’s de efsion maybe ten times, but no more To date I have met and beaten ever: man of note. I hold decisions ove: two world’s champions, when they -wer¢ in their prime-Joe Stecher and Strangler Lewis. bee