1952 Pacific Athletic Club Wrestling: Masked Marvel vs. Roger Mackay

PACIFIC ATHLETIC

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VOL. 2, NO. 41

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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1952

COAST TITLE BOUT

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Masked Marvel

llIE REOOGNIZED JUNIOR 1lEAVY\VEIGJIT OHAJ\IPION OF THE l'AOIFIO COAST

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Roger Mackay

IDOL OF TIIE HOLLYWOOD FJLM OOLONQ AND WINNER OF LAST FRIDAY'S

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• • • T-he1-e could be a new Pacific Ooasl Junior l:le11vy, welgltl wrestling ehamplon atlA!r Utls Friday evening's big baLUo between tho Masked Mnrvt!I, tht, currenl bell .,.._ holder, a:nd Roger Mackay, popular young matman from __,;:....= Salt Lake City, at the TncomnJ\rmory.

U0J8 Gavelb' I.ab Mackay won the rlghl lo mecL Drh,, 8. W. lho Marvel !or Ute llOUBt honor by dcl'entlng Cad lilagstrom here lasl STE/\KS ... OHOPS Friday. The big follows wOI go B/\MBTIOOERS ror Ute best or three ra11s over a1•------------­ onc hour lime lm!t. TJu, aho\l which wnt have no boost In prloes, will be stuged nt the A,mory, home or Taromu wrestling, and st.arts al 8:30 p. m. standard time or 9:30 �JA.SKEO MARVEL p. in. fnsl time.

Folluw<!fS or the mal business have litue 10 say In favor of the M.'\Sked Man, nlthoµgh one lhing is certain, he is the champion and has �n since he look the title aw"y {l"Om Frank Stojaclt lasl December In 5<,adle. l:le ts II great wrestler, for It he wasn't M wouldn'l be on top or the coast field. Be has an unlikeable habit or be ing II bit loo rough Jn lho ting al times bul when ho ls defending his Utle and/or aLlcmpllng to I""'!> lhal nylon red and yellow mask on he often finds lhal being rough is tho only way to keep ahead of his opponent.

Tho Mnrvel was ordered bru,ic to Tacoma from a pleasant vacallon Jn. Tcxns by the Slate Athletic commJs. slon and told lo defend his crown wllhln two Wl!C!ks or 1050 it.. So he plcl<ed Tacoma. the bcsl grapple city on I/to coost, tor lhe title bout and oUercd to meel nny OpJJOnenl Utnt Promoter Paavo Kotonm would sign.

Kctonen hrul given Rogei· Mnoka,y a standing oUcr IO come north at any tlm• he desln,d and appear here.

MAcltay Wll!I having so much S1.U!a!SS In southern caJl!or­ nla that he saw no 1-eason to Jeavo but wh.on he heard that the Musked Mnrvcl was ordered lo fight foe bis UUe, Mackay wired Ketonen saying, "l'll take lhal ma(A)h." Thero was tho !Lltle mnitcr of Engstrom, lonir a fa"orltc 0£ lhe mnl following or lb• north wes t and a -= =, = = = huk === ero =m=S�l.

Dcmc 0 a. J=o=h=n=ny== logical choice to meet lhc Marvel tor his b ell. Mackay Lo l. u s and the former world took care o[ Lhat matter, us mentioned before, last week. j unior title-holder and George The Masked Man expects lo keep hls crown In this t h champ­ Pencho r t e one bul Mackay, who Is so popular In lhe south lhlll i ar e n lhls area.

Ion' ho has ran clubs In almost every city In whfoh he has urulcr .

NegoUa.L lons are now appenn>d, figures lbnt ho is lb.a ono Lo end tho 1'1l ll;'n or con.sldnration lo have lho NaoId Ml,• n• known. tionnl Wrestling alllnnoo's next junior heaVYwclghl title louma, DIG THINGS A'OOJ\DNG menl In the Padflc Northwest..

No liooner wlll lhls championship match be over than And with 1111 of this lalent OD the summer SC.'UlOn opons ht,re In Tacoma. And what o ltnn.d, plus lh" drawing pownr S<>'180n ll will be. Already 1n evldenco are many of tlw that Tncoma bas shown In I.he wo1·hl's gr<!lllesl mntmen or lhc Junior heavy weight post year In the grap_ple busl· classi.C!bntlon. ncss, thi, N.W.A. � just givi, The,-e Is a reall011 why such stars as Maclmy. Antone Kotonen the "go ahead" signal Leone from Oyster Bay, N. Y.; ?.ir. Sakata and Ben ror such a meet..

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