Boxing Day Wrestling Show Scheduled For Merritt

Merritt Herald – December 18, 1968

Some excitement is in store for Nicola Valley residents on Boxing Day this year. For the first time in many years, a live wrestling show be seen in Merritt and everyone is invited not to miss this great attraction.

Featured will be a girl wrestler, Terry Lachance, a petite 133 lb. five foot two brunette Massachusetts girl of French Canadian ancestry. Terry, who has always been interested in sports, played every sport open to girls in high school and her father was a pro-boxer. A chance viewing of a girl wrestler on television was what first got her interested in this sport so she talked to promoters and sports writers in Boston and other cities who all gave her encouragement.

To Hold Sports Night

Merrimack Valley Advertiser – September 19, 1968

The Fr. Harold M. Wren Council, 3963, Knights of Columbus, will present their 1st ANNUAL SPORTS NIGHT on September 21, 1968 at the Billerica Memorial High School Gym at 8 o’clock.

The main bout will feature Frank Scarpa (World’s Heaveyweight Champion) versus Sweet Daddy Watts from California.

The semi-final bout will pit Alma Mills (World Champion Lady Wrestler) against the versatile Marie Santiago of Puerto Rico.

Monday Murals

Greenfield Recorder – July 22, 1968

WORLD CHAMPION Alma Mills will try to keep team colors flying as she meets Donna McCoy in the top bout of a four-barrel wrestling show at Mountain Park Pavilion Wednesday.

Her teammate, Maggie Sandiago, is sidelined with a back injury received last week in a tag team match. Instead of a repeat match, two top gal grapplers will meet in the best of three falls.

Sweet Daddy Watts, 295-pound ace from California, will wrestle The Oklahoma Kid in a special. Bull Montana, a veteran of ring wars, and Ty Torres, Puerto Rican rogue, will clash in yet another colorful event.

Three Main

Greenfield Recorder-Gazette – July 1, 1968

THREE MAIN wrestling bouts will be presented Tuesday night at the Mountain Park Pavilion. The wrestling show was charged to Tuesday night this week only. Promoter Vito Taliarita said, due to the July 4th holiday week schedule at the park.

One main bout will pit Alma Mills, world’s women’s champion, against Donna McCoy of North Carolina. Another pair of ring wreckers, The Oklahoma Kid and Duke (The Beast) Savage of Holyoke will clash in another mainer. The Kid won by disqualification last week and the Beast promises an early fall.

The first tag team match of the season will find U. S. champion Bull Montana get together with George Lacourse to battle Chris Belkos and Ty Torres, a promising star just in from Puerto Rico. They will begin fighting at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Professional Wrestling Ad

Fitchburg Sentinel – April 8, 1968

School Permit Cancelled

Greenfield Recorder – February 13, 1968

Wrestling Show Pinned

POSTER used by wresting promoter, called by a school official “not the type … the school committee … desires to encourage”.

The promoter of a public wrestling match scheduled for Saturday night in the Greenfield High School gym reported today the event has been cancelled because school authorities have revoked his permit for use of the gym.

Louis Lacourse of Holyoke said school officials objected to the type of entertainment he planned and the high school principal, J. Robert Vail, told him the poster featuring lady wrestler champion Alma Mills, dressed in a bathing suit, was improper. This is not the sort of thing to be shown in the high school, Lacourse said Vail informed him.

Wrestling Returns

Greenfield Recorder – February 6, 1968

Woman Champ On The Card

Professional wrestling will return to Greenfield for the first time since a series of shows in 1947, with a big bill on Feb. 17 at the Greenfield High School gym.

The Saturday night match, first in a series scheduled for every other Saturday night if successful, will pit the world women’s champion against an eager challenger — as well as two undercard matches between noted men wrestlers.

Wrestling in Return Here Next Week

Brattleboro Reformer – January 18, 1968

Professional wrestling will return to Brattleboro next Wednesday night with a three-match card set for 8:30 at the Recreation Center. Headlining the evening’s card will be an hour-limit best two out of three falls championship girl match pitting Alma Mills, the World Wide Wrestling Federation champion, against Cuban spitfire Sylvia Torres. Miss Mills has successfully defended her title over 200 times. In a co-feature 45-minute limit best two of three falls semi-final match, the wildman of El Paso, Texas, Duke Savage, will take on the scientific Canadian wrestler, the Flying Frenchman. Savage, who weighs in at 240 pounds, is currently under suspension in California where he went berserk after being disqualified from a match in Los Angeles. The Frenchman weighs in at 232 pounds. The opening match lists the 209-pound 12-year veteran golden Greek Chris Belkas from Lynn, Mass., against 34-year-old 195-pound Ty Torress of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Peterson’s Team Wins Tag Match

Panama City News – August 13, 1968

 

Greg Peterson, Bobby Whitlock and Cowboy Bob Kelly won a six-man tag team wrestling match from Rocket and Flash Monroe and Joe Powell last night at the Rainbow Roller Rink.

Mat Show Completed

Milwaukee Sentinel – May 1, 1968

Saturday night’s professional wrestling show at the Auditorium, which is topped by a tag team match, was completed Tuesday with the signing of two more bouts.

Dale Lewis