Wrestling Heritage

Collecting autographs on a programme always seemed an inferior way of going about things, strictly for the unprepared amateur.

Years later, with the main collection lost, or at best mislaid, those shambolic gatherings taken only as a back-up, now perfectly fulfil their understudy role.

Only Eddie Capelli spoils the nap hand here.  The matching of villainous tag pair Lee Sharron and Johnny Yearsley is particularly unusual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was a great night on the south coast!  Three real and seldom seen northerners made for an appetizing bill.  Judo Pete was the spoiler here, but the hunter-gatherer had his sights set on the rarer booty and scored the hat-trick in style, all on programme Number 001 - guess who used to get there early!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A great tag contest here and rewarding to have both the Dodgers' autographs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See how Basil Riley changed his autograph from the top of this page to give us the gipsy version below:

 

 

 

The India Rubber Man provides a suitably wobbly offering here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We conclude with both ends of the literacy scale as the impeccable Eastern European orthography of Peter Szakacs lines up in-script as in-ring against the World's Worst: